Leimuiden Open Competition

On Tuesday night was the Leimuiden Criterion race, held on a 700mt smooth asphalt course. This is one of the nicest criterion races of the year, with a nice party after. After a long weekend of racing, and doing strength training that morning, racing again two days later was quite hard. The ladies, C grade Men and Veteran Men were on the one podium, with only the prize money being separate for the ladies. Hilde and I were the only ones from CadoMotus to race as Jannitta and Bianca had National training.

Our race got off to a fast start, with a break away of me and two other C Men going after 3 laps. It was soon caught, with more attacks going off the front. As I returned to the group, my shins blew up and all I could do was sit in the group, try and recover and wait for the end sprint. There was still 20min and 3laps to go and I was hurting. Poor Hilde was at the front taking all the leaders laps and trying to follow the other breaks. As we got down to the final 5 minutes and 3 laps, a group of 3 went off the front again and held the gap to the finish. In the field sprint, I managed to make my way to Hilde and we came 2nd and 3rd across the line, and 1st, 2nd in the ladies.

Leimuiden CDV Open Competition

1.Nick Roetman - C Men
2.Ben van Ham - C Men
3.Hans Peschier - C Men
4.Nick Uithoven - C Men
5.Hilde Goovaerts - Dames
6.Angeline Thomas - Dames

For Full results

Leimuiden AB Open Competition

1. Ingmar Berga - A Men (break away)
2. Willem Hut - A Men (break away)
3. Arjan Mombarg - A Men (break away)
4. Michael Byrne - A Men

For Full results.

Mens report to follow…