Baptism of Fire

A5 Rangers 10 - 13/03/2005 - Course N17/10

Riding his first race in Cherry Valley Team colours, Sam Tuplin produced a creditable ride in the A5 Rangers 10 mile time trial on Sunday 13th March 2005. With the wind howling down the course from a Northerly direction, the conditions were tough to say the least which was made even worse by the near zero temperatures. Sam, who is currently in his first year studying at Coventry University, made the A5 Rangers event his first of the season just to get a ‘yard stick’ on his current form. Despite struggling to train properly because he lives in the town centre, Sam still returned a time of 26.16, good enough for 21st place, with the event winner Carl Saint (Yorkshire RC) winning with a time of 21.57.

Sam described the 10 as ‘the hardest 10 I have ever done, the course was nearly all dual carriageway, yet it was hard as hell’. Sam was still happy with his ride considering how little training he has done and it was a bit of a shock adjusting to the brutal position of his time trial bike. Sam his back home this Friday 18th March for the Easter period for four weeks and aims to get some quality training done with the rest of the team and lend his support to the team in the LRRA 2up on Sunday morning.