So last week we ( the junior lads) were racing at the IOM. Everyone had a good prologue (apart from me, i had a shocker) which led toLaurie starting off stage 2 in 7th. Stage 2 finished on a sharp little climb which went okay – Laurie maintaining his 7th and me being bumped up to 14th -meanwhile james’ was a few seconds back having got cramp 
.Its the final stage that was the real disappointment though, as we had a genuine chance to take the stage win. I scooted off the front with a few guys to a larger group, totalling about 8 of us. This was just before the halfway point. James and Laurie had this information from gary.s so did a bit of controlling on the front im told (cheers guys 
) long story short my break made it! except i had made the extremely large mistake of assuming the finish line was at the same place as last year. Turns out it wasnt. I rolled over in 6th. LAME.Well lesson learnt anyway… oh and i would of got 3rd overall instead of 8th had i made 1st, 2nd or 3rd. also lame.Johnny K
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Isle Of Man Youth Tour
Tuesday, May 4th, 2010Two guys one cup…
Tuesday, April 13th, 2010Sunday came with sunshine for the ‘home’ race of the season, the annual westmorland tankard! The race was to cover a gruelling 8 mile cumbria-style course 8 times before the hill-sprint finish. This being my home course i’d been over the course the previous day and was well up for it. The whole Team (http://teamherbalifewheelbase.co.uk/) had made their way down (10 of us) and considering we WERE 1/6 of the field we were well up for the win.
A few more lap later i was feeling better, however by this point about 15 riders were up the road including our own dillon and laurie ( finishing 5th and 12th pos) The remaining 3 Herbalife riders including me, attacked (sort of) with 1 lap remaining to take 19th, 20th and 22nd (i think..) so it wasnt too bad. Considering we started off with 10 to only have one top-ten didnt look to good, but some of the top guys were here, plus it was hella hard.
