After sitting out last weekend’s local club race I was quite excited with having the chance to race two days on the weekend. The races were two criteriums and after reading the description of the circuit (three lanes and flowing) it seemed like it was going to be a good weekend of racing in preparation for speed week which is a few weeks away.

We pulled up to the start and I started to wonder where the three lane, flowing circuit was going to be raced, as all I could see was a massive car park with a heap of orange cones on it, with a roundabout and a hair pin all joined up with more orange cones. I had heard stories of criterium races being raced in a car park before but had never thought that that was ever going to be the case and that the stories were always embellished and over exaggerated. Having experienced it firsthand I know they were being quite literal. It is not something I want to repeat again in a hurry!

On a good day I can normally get round a corner ok but the guys in these criteriums seemed to motor around the corners somehow without coming off and gapping me by a few bike lengths every time and in the wet on Sunday it was even worse. So I didn’t last long, if you combined the time I rode on both the days it might equate to one of the day’s races.

Heath managed to pull off his first win of the year in the Saturday race so that was good for the team.