tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9616614640750498522011-08-02T01:26:09.554+01:00Not A Pro Cyclist!Warrick Spencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08014061087530964765noreply@blogger.comBlogger481100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-961661464075049852.post-7199306621178008742009-10-13T22:36:00.001+01:002009-10-13T23:36:39.807+01:00

Warrick Spencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08014061087530964765noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-961661464075049852.post-21534732721887920362009-10-13T22:07:00.002+01:002009-10-13T22:36:21.979+01:00

Last night was the 2nd of the Tuesday night blasts held from Richmond. We meet at 6pm and start racing at 6.30pm on a route that takes an hour or less of very fast and hard racing. We had about 20 riders in A/B grade last night, good to see early on everyone doing through and off, that stopped on the first hill though as the attacking started, I did a big pull, all that did is separate me from

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Well on the 12th of August my wife and I arrived back in my home town of Nelson, New Zealand to be greated by my Mum and daughter, had a nice moment at the airport. My daughter and I caught the airport shuttle with my bikebox and two suitcases, while my wife went with my mum. Meet at my mums apartment and hand a simple lunch of sandwiches. Warmer than I thought it would be considering it is

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Raced the London Dynamo summer road race, starting at Handcross, entered on the line at £18, not cheap for 76 miles over 6 laps. Field of about 65 riders, half way through the first lap I was in a move with 3 others, worked steady in regards the pace, for me my body was already on the limit, soon settled down though, we hovered at 30 to 40 seconds in front a chase group and already 1.10 on the

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Sorry to anyone who has been following my racing and such on here, as I have been rather lax in updating my blog.This is just a brief update as on the 1st of august i will be at Richmond Park for a farewell ride at 9am, meeting at the cafe. As of the 10th of August I fly back to New Zealand to live and hopefully keep racing, so will have more time as well. Lifestyle and to be closer to members of

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17th place. rode at or near the front for most of the race, legs were getting tired but was measuring out my effort well, last lap the mud had started to get tacky going across farm yard,as opposed to the first few laps when it was well muddy, so we all had more mud on our tires, 3 corners after the farm muddy section everyone had a scare, I had to adjust my line as it looked as Sam was going to

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On Sunday went out with Stephen, over the north downs, lots of snow from the day before, even though it was a warmer day, nice and sunny, still icy in places though.Did my normal route, Woldingham,Crowhurst,Edenbridge, Hever, Toys hill, Idle Hill, Westerham, Pilgrams lane,Sundridge, Knockholt, Cudlam Downe and back via corkscrew hill.Encountered lots of ice and snow on Sundridge Lane even though

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Been awhile, and after seeing that London Cycle sport has used some of my blog for the Dengie marshes race I better start updating what I have been up to.So far since I had such a crap year last year race wise. I hardly rode my bike from september through to November. Once I got my riding head on and had my back seen to by Michael Lanning of Gonstead clinics, long running issue, although I don't

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What a great English weekend, wet and windy, so a good time to be out and about racing. Started at Hog Hill for the London Criterium champs, was alot faster than the previous race I did there two weeks ago, started with a very wet circuit but no rain until 5 laps from the end of the 25 lap race. I had a go at the sprints but as the finish line is at the top of the hill it was hard to fully

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Well that was a bloody killer ride, 2nd hardest event for me this year, Etape de Tour being my worst experience on a bike ever at number 1, maybe one day I will write about that.As it goes having 10000ft of climbing over 100 miles is always going to be challenging, but how hard can it be. The first 25 miles nearly took 2 hours, well I did it in 1.40, but I saw plenty of times slower than this.

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to go to Wales for the Devil ride, 100 mile sportive with 10000ft of climbing, looks as though it could be wet and about 17 degrees.Picking up Steve from work in 1 hour to drive to Hereford where we are staying the night.Been a while since I have written on my blog, sorry about that, just lost my motivation to write and ride, am getting my act togeather again, should have a report in the next

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Raced at Crystal Palace on tuesday night, had a good hard race, well was until I punctured my rear Tub going up the hill just as we had made the break with 10 laps to go, walked across grass with bike and put some sealant in tire so I could get home, did have a spare tub in my bag but it is only 2 miles to my home, wasn't interested in rejoining the race as I had been going pretty hard, so hard

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On sunday I went and rode the same ride as the previous sunday with Steve at the same time, slightly warmer and a hell of a lot windier. For what ever reason I cranked the pace into the head wind at 18-19 mp/h as I felt good and need a hard ride as I am racing this sunday coming up.Had a slight easing off before approaching Shere, but once back climbing seemed to ease into an all out fast tempo

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Here are some pics of my race bike for this year, Spec is as follows.Serotta HSG full carbon frame and fork, size 56cmCampag Record groupset with red top levers, 53/39 x 11-21 cassetteKMC Ti Nitride gold chainZero Gravity limited edition N.E.R.D brakes in red with Swiss stop Yellow King brake blocksChris King headset in redPMP carbon tubular wheelset with Ti PMP skewersContinental Competion 22

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Been a while since last blog, had a few interruptions to my year but all in the best interest in helping others, mainly family as my father passed away on the 5th of May in New Zealand. The night before I flew back home I raced at Crystal Palace with the aim of winning for my father, which I managed, in a two up sprint after a race long break away. At that point I was just getting some racing

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I am lead to writing about a bike I have grown so accustomed to riding I had almost forgotten what it was like as I treat this bike as my default bike, ie the one I always end up on when the weather is bad, the roads are rough or as of last weekend the threat of stacking was high and the roads extremely rough for a road race anyway. We are talking about the Rutland to Melton Cicle Classic that

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On saturday I took my new white and red Glider track bike to Herne Hill for the induction session as I have not been on the track for a long time. There appeared to be plenty of 1st timers making the most of the supplied bikes. All very basic but good to go over all this again, for me it's more so that I get familiar with the fixed before I start chasing or sprinting, can be pretty hair raising

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Week 12- 19 of April GPM10/Cyclefit cycle training camp held in Mallorca, week one of 3 seperate weeks organized by Cyclefit and GPM10.I was out on the first week so most of these pics are from me while driving the van in support. Weather was very good as you can see.

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What a race, had my eye on this race for months as it is for me a build up for the Rutland-Melton classic to be held next month.I had my doubts mainly regards lack of training and this being my first race this year as how far I would actually get in the race.The day started extremely earlier as the clocks went forward an hour the night before and as the race started at 9.30am in Essex we had to

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Met up with Mark Neep from GPM10, Jay and Andrew Hunter on Saturday morning at Roehampton Gate at 9.15am to get some social laps of Richmond park in, very cold but well wrapped up so all OK.Fantastic bright and clear day to be out riding, plenty of cyclists out as well. we kept a nice steady tempo for the 5 laps that we did, more than what could be said about the two separate groups of London

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Rode in yesterday with the sun coming up as I went over Waterloo Bridge , the day felt fantastic and great to be up and about this early, that all came to a halt when I got to work to find I had no keys on me to open the shop, luckily I was well early and a quick phone call and i was inside the shop at 8.10am, close call. Had left my keys in the shop the night before in my haste to get out riding

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Last few weeks I have felt really tired and had some rough nights sleeping, to the point that I stopped riding, had to cancel my ride with Sam on Sunday, just feel so washed out.So last night I decided to ride home as fast as possible, felt fresh once home, so tonight I blat ted down the embankment given it full gas into the headwind, just trying to load up my legs and keep my heart rate high

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Had a bad nights sleep last night, and to top it off when I was asleep my mum called from New Zealand to wish us a happy New Years at 7am,So I managed to head out at 12 noon towards richmond park, ridding a little bit quicker, legs feel strong but tired at the same time, rode 3 laps, very peaceful as hardly anyone about at all, road all wet though. I was about 13 minutes quicker than the same

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Well went out on friday night after I managed my 3 laps of richmond Park earlier in the day and got a little tipsy as I forgot that pubs can stay open longer than before, wondered why my wife was calling, but when I looked at the time it became apparent, 1am, made my excuses and left on my long drag of a trip across London.Basically I wrote myself off so spent all of saturday recovering, so today

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Been out riding after xmas as I have had a break of two and a half weeks, mainly to do with having a cold and also social engagments etc.Have been really run down so was prepeared to take the whole xmas break off my bike as well, managed 5 days in total, legs start getting twitchy at night, getting hot etc, so on Boxing day I headed foe Richmond park in the afternoon, took it very easy, managed 1

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I find it a struggle getting out on my bike at the moment, thats why it is good to have someone else to ride with how calls up to see if I am going out. Today I slept in till 9.30am, got a call from Sam at 10.15am from Sam saying that Mark had was driving to his place, had only just left at that point, 30 minutes later had a call saying that wasn't happening as James had phoned mark to say he was

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The last two weeks I have been fairly consistent with my riding, doing 45 minutes to an hour after work 3 times a week and doing 2 hours in the one ride on my days off work, which are Wednesday and Sunday, First 2 hour ride I was feeling strong but resisted the urge to push on and just rode at a steady 17 mph listening to my ipod and staying on the flat, still felt like along time on the bike and

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Back in London after two and a half weeks in New Zealand in which I only rode my bike twice, enjoyed my time off the bike, so far I have been back 3 days and have been enjoying my commute to work,, does make you feel alive I feel, although air was very fresh this morning but sunny so good to be out, have to be carefull not to draw in to much cold air as my lungs are not ready yet, legs are very

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I am sitting in my parents new lounge with the sun shining on my back using my mums laptop, been in my home town since Sunday, 30 hours in total to get here from London, via L.A( security checks are extreme, retina scan and finger prints and that was just getting from the airplane to the transfer lounge as our plane refuelled).Jet lagged, still half asleep during the day, Last night I rode out

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On sunday my wife and I drove to Warwick from London on up the M40 for me to race at 17.15, got there a good one and a half hours before the race to see the finish of the womans race and some unicycle action.Weather was good, just very blustery which I didn't think would affect the race as the circuit is quite tight but I was proved wrong as on the only climb and we were into a block headwind

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Today was the Tour of Britian prologue and associated support races held throughout the day.I was down to race in the Elite race at 1pm, second to last counting round of the National series, I left home at 11.45 to ride the short distance to Crystal Palace, 10 minutes later and I was there.Once pointed in the right direction to the sign on tent which happened to be three quarters of the way along

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Last night was the Newport Nocturne race held under lights, featuring a quilty field of Tour de France riders and National and World Champs, past and present.The race was very very fast, I missed getting gridded as I couldn't get through the riders that had assemebled in front of me, every one was very jumpy and tense waiting for the start. My start was OK, made some places up then worked on

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Tonight was the last of the Crystal Palace tuesday League races that have been held throughout the year, although quite a few have been rained off this year which helped me in the overall series standings as I think my worst result was 3rd, won 4 and that put me 2nd overall, although it would have helped if tonights result counted as well as I won tonight in a reduced lap race. 18 laps in total,

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Had another night out with the boys from work, had a beer and pizza at work before heading to the same pub as last week, had a pint then moved onto our next stop which is a pub I ride past every day on the way home from work, old style original pub, very small and hot inside so after another pint we headed more into the heart of Central London, stopping once more, needed a toilet stop so went

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Here I am at home after another of my all conquering training rides from work to home, total distance of 6.5 miles in 23 minutes, thats all I have been doing for the last two weeks basically.Monday and Tuesday I went north after work from Covent Garden, through Islington to Holloway across to Camden, round Regents Park, right along Marylebone road, down Sussex Gardens, cut through Hyde Park over

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Today while riding home from work I saw one of these, a new Audi R8. Everytime I go riding in central london I will spot some supercar or exotic that I will admire as I ride along, pretty much seen everything being driven along the streets of london at some point, some even put there foot down to make a nice wail as they accelerate to 30mp/h or more!!!.Well my week has been one off not doing to

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What a nice hot day yesterday was, started by washing the car, 2nd time this has been done this year, noticed the neighbour from upstairs has been happily opening his door repeatedly into the side of my white car as there is about 20 black marks from his black Landrover, hope he has chipped the paint and his door rusts.Aside from that I managed to convince my wife to come to South Wales by saying

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Abergavenny Elite Circuit Series Criterium (Taken from the British Cycling Website, edited the spelling of my name, as spelt wrong again and uncensored a quote)August 3, 2007; AbergavennyReport & Images by Larry Hickmott ReportIn darkness, Simon Gaywood outsprints Warrick Spence for the win at Abergavenny and strengthen his lead in the series.British Cycling’s Elite Circuit Race Series leader,

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ROAD 31 / 07 / 07 Sutton Town Centre Races 07By lcsCycle racing returned to Sutton Town Centre for a day of racing on July 29 Warrick Spence takes 1st E/1/2Chris Tune (Sigma RT) was the first to show and he soon built an early lead before he was brought back by an active chase group. Wouter Sybrandy (Agiskoviner) followed suit before he also was caught. A lead quartet

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Well, I have managed to win three races in the last week, brings my yearly total to 4, same as last year, just need to keep winning, starting from this friday, as I will be in Abergavenny for a round of the National Criterium series and at present I am hovering in tenth place overall, which is not good for me, have missed 3 rounds though so can catch up a little I hope.Legs need a massage as

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Nice day out for me today, meet Sam in Herne Hill at 1:15pm and rode out to Sutton so as to watch the womans National Circuit race series and then for me to partake in the Elite invitational race at 3:45pm.We set up outside Starbucks on the finish straight right in the middle of the shopping area, all barricaded off for the races. We watched the progress of the race while drinking coffee and

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Crystal Palace once again, this time I was going to win, pulled my white Rocket 7's out of their hiding place in my wardrobe this morning, nice sunny day so already had the day mapped out in my mind. During the day I needed to get my race bike cleaned up and change my tires on my zipp 404's, as well as doing all my normal work as well, all went well except for the eating food part as it got busy

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Made it through the week, today I went out at 9.30 with Sam, took him round the route I did last sunday, just this time my legs realy felt it, was struggling alot from Crowshurst back up Tandridge to the top of the North downs, Sam had to ease up for me, did do one big effort off the top of the downs back towards London at 32 mp/h, but that was me cooked, just followed Sams wheel untill Corkscrew

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Been taken these capsules 3 times a day since monday, it's a 5 day course of antibiotics for my gum where my tooth was removed on monday. Hadn't noticed anything until late yesterday when I felt more tired than normal, but that could also be the mundane task involved in doing a stock take at work. Still on the ride to Cyrstal Palace to take part in the racing on tuesday night I felt weak.Although

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Well after my friday excursion I managed to do two days of training, first weekend that I have done any training since I was in Mallorca in April. Scary as I think alot of people expect me to be riding all the time, I can only do what I can fit in without getting overly tired so tend to ride hard then rest and repeat. Works OK for me as it dosn't take long for me to sharpen up my form.But saying

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This Blog is mainly about racing, but sometimes things happen like my journey yesterday to get to a round of the National Criterium series in Blackpool, Race start was at 8pm, So I left London at 11.30 aiming to allow 4-5 hours on the M40, M6 to get to Blackpool with time to spare in an ideal world that would be easy!All seemed well until the rain came down just before Birmingham, got unto the M5

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Last night was the Guildford Town centre race, This is the race I have won for the last two years, I tryed as hard as I could but having only just recovered from a headcold I had lost a little of my top end, legs were strong though.This most be one of the UK's hardest circuits at only 600m and three corners you could think what could be that hard, well add in the cobbles on the High street and

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