Tom , Pride Of Yorkshire!

[ColinJ]

There is a Summer series in Yorkshire, as well as the archetypal winter CX series

How can you tell?

We had a proper drought here in 1995 you know!

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

(interesting to see Pidcock carrying a bottle - and using it several times. I've never seen a bottle in a CX race - my frame doesn't even have the bosses. INEOS Marginal Gains??)

My first CX bike didn't have bosses either
it was a ex team-bike (Reynolds 653), from Paul Milnes, who sponsored (at the time) Bradford Olympic

When you see the competitors in short sleeves and shorts, no gloves, drinking during the race, then you wonder what you are actually watching. I think the weather and course suited Tom, but wouldn't have bet against him winning in any conditions with that field.

I know
I've raced CX, where I've had a t-shirt on, with a long-sleeve club-jersey, over it, full-finger gloves & still not really got warm until a couple of laps into the race, and, in a similar state, at fell-races
Although, in both circumstances, I've always worn shorts - no 'longs'

Some summer CXs in Yorkshire are bone-dry (2008; Huddersfield New College?)


Others are 'mud-fests'!
Cleckheaton Whitechapel School



And, a good old muddy winter event!!
Temple Newsam (Leeds) 91. or 92?




And as stated, even some fell-races were ran in longer kit!
(these were before I joined a running club)

2010
'Stanbury Splash'


'Trunce'
(must've been a bit warmer)


Holme-Moss Fell-Race
(18 miles, & the hardest thing I've ever done, on foot)

 

[Alex321]

I saw this thread had been updated, and expected it would be about his TdF stage win on Alp D'Huez yesterday

Is Tom Pidcock a British equivalent of Wout Van Aert?

 

[matticus]

Is Tom Pidcock a British equivalent of Wout Van Aert?

He's slightly smaller.

Back to warm/dry CX races ... a summer series has just started in Milton Keynes. Think about doing an hour's race off-road - so minimal cooling draft - in this week's weather!

 

[ColinJ]

Is Tom Pidcock a British equivalent of Wout Van Aert?

He's slightly smaller.

Where 'slightly' is defined as 20 cm (~8 inches) in height and 20 kg (~44 pounds/3 stone 2 pounds) in weight!

 

[Peter Salt]

Where 'slightly' is defined as 20 cm (~8 inches) in height and 20 kg (~44 pounds/3 stone 2 pounds) in weight!

Pretty sure each of his balls is circa 20kg, descending like he did.