Pearce Cycles Race Report & Photo Epic -Kinsham

The first Pearce Cycles Race of the year was over at Kinsham, the privately owned forest in the wooded hills of Herefordshire.

The weather was blazing hot and the track was dusty, providing a quick running track. The conditions couldn’t be more different to the BDS last weekend.

The track was full of turns with still some flat out sections but mostly consisted of weaving in and out of (or even jumping through) tight trees!

The uplift ran super quick with only ever a small queue, top or bottom, making it possible to bang out as many runs as your body could take!!

The combination hot weather, dusty track, quick uplift and a fun track left the morale super high through the whole weekend and everyone seemed happy to be riding there bike!!

One way to make the porridge….

Sunday morning came around and the valley floor was soon heated by the rising temperature! A small covering of dew settled some of the dust for a while and riders practiced for race runs.

More braking bumps were appearing but all in all the track had held up well and not changed too much over the weekend.

The track was fairly short the fastest time of the day being a 1:41.4 meaning times were super tight!

Shaun Richards took the Fastest Speed Trap. Rumour has it that he’s been training deadlifting cars with the Llanelli rugby squad.
Taylor Vernon took the fastest time of the day with Junior’s Matt Walker followed closely behind him in a stacked elite field, beating the likes of Mike Jones and Adam Brayton.

Elite Men
Taylor Vernon 1st
Mike Jones 2nd
Adam Brayton 3rd

The podium was closely followed by the first year Elite, Brazilian Douglas Vierra.

Expert Men
Expert men the majority went quicker, changing the podium around. The top 3 were separated by 0.2 of a second, any mistake made a difference!
Reece Langhorn 1st
Will Hart 2nd (0.054 behind!!)
Nathan Foster 3rd

Juvenile Boys
The young boys weren’t hanging about, nearly braking the 2 minute barrier.
Connor Smith 1st
Jordan Williams 2nd
Joshua Bennet 3rd

Youth Boys
Harry Barret took the win on home turf.

Harry Barret 1st
Luke Williamson 2nd
Morgan Tyrell 3rd

Junior Men
Matt walker lead by over 7 seconds.

Matt Walker 1st
Jake Gaskell 2nd
Riley Scott 3rd

Elite women
The lack of competition didn’t stop the two pushing on and battling it out!
Becci Skelton 1st
Lucy Drees 2nd

Junior Women
Megan James ahead of the field by over 7 seconds
Megan James 1st
Ellen Flewit 2nd
Eve Brookes 3rd

Master Men
Rowan Sorrell 1st
Mat Clark 2nd
Nathan Cavalier 3rd