East Midlands Grand Prix- Corby 5

After the Colworth Challenge (the Sunday half was simply survival in the hot conditions), last night’s Corby 5 (East Midlands Grand Prix race 6) was always going to be a hard one for me.

But I was after those points as to qualify for the overall series scoring you need 5 of the 8 races).

The route is fortunately brilliant fun- immediately uphill (!) then about 100m flat then a long and at times steep downhill!

The official said we’d feel like we were in the South of France and he wasn’t wrong, such a fab descent I felt a bit unnerved, knowing what was to come….!

So, a fast flat mid section, chopping along with a little pack and then the ascent. It wasn’t as bad as I anticipated but maybe my legs are getting used to this hilly series.

Chris Ling managed an impressive 11th place, hopefully he won’t get too comfortable in that luminous green vest...

Write up by Katie Godof