Into the New Year at High Speed

Ever wondered how to do a wheelie? - try roller racing first...

18/1/19

The YHPSCL roller raced right into the new year over at the Forest Youth Centre. This event was for the years 5 and 6 riders and was split into two sessions with the morning one being more relaxed as most of the schools seemed to prefer the afternoon. all in we had 85 competitors from eight schools taking part over a 500m timed race.

Morning session getting underway

The equivalent of two laps of the velodrome may seem like a short race but at full gas the effort is intense as the riders would all testify.

The afternoon session briefing

The year 5 girls race was very close with only 8 seconds separating the top ten. In third place was May from parkwood in 36seconds ahead of her  the Jubilee duo of Poppy and Charlie took first and second at 33 then 34 seconds - very fast times indeed.

Some the girls waiting to start their race

Year 5 girls results

Roller racing is the only cycle race where riders are encouraged to keep their head
down and go for it - although some find flailing their head from side to side works best.

 In the year 5 boys less than ten seconds seperated the top fifteen riders. Theo from Kingsmead took top spot on 32 seconds, followed by Kuba from Jubilee on 34 seconds. Logan from Millfields and Albert from Gayhurst both tied for third on 36 seconds.

Afternoon boys race

Year 5 boys results

more morning action

The year six girls had the biggest amount of racers with the top 20 riders being separated by only 10 seconds. The three Kingsmead girls all finish on 35 seconds with Lolo coming top for her team in third place. Second and first were only a couple of tenths of a second apart as Ella from Parkwood edged out Ishanna from Jubilee. Full results below.

Concentration before racing

Year 6 girls results

In the year 6 boys event the top fifteen riders were only ten seconds apart with the fastest time of the day being posted by the winner Jimme of Millfields at 30 seconds. he was closely followed by his team mate Joseph on 31 seconds then Daniel form Kingsmead on 33secs.

Year 6 boys results

All this meant that Kingsmead won this round followed by Millfields then Jubilee with the league table looking like this - 

League standings after round 4

Riders watching the projected race clock.

Rolling to the holidays

Roller racing at Forest Road Youth Centre

 14/12/18
Round three of the 2018-19 Young Hackney Primary Schools Cycling League had to make way for the Track World Cup taking place over at the Olympic park so instead of Circuit Races we had an extra round of indoor Roller Racing.
Eighty seven riders from eight schools took part - with all in the room at the same time down at the Forest Road Youth Centre it made for quite a noise when the racing started,

year 4 girls podium

 The year four riders went first - four riders at a time took to the track bikes riding a 250m distance as quickly as they could  equivalent to one lap over at the Lea valley Velodrome.

Year 4 girls results

 Pia from Millfields edged out Sara from Parkwood and her teammate Farida for the win.

year 4 boys podium

In the year 4 boys Max from Millfields went under 17 seconds beating Maciej from Parkwood into 2nd place and Abdurrahman of Olive into third. The top eight riders were all within second of the winner.

Year 4 boys results

Year 5 girls results

The year 5 girls saw the quickest time of the day overall go to Conice from Millfields - her 14.78 beating all the girls and the boys too.  Joining her on the podium were Poppy and Charlie of Jubilee.

- both within a second of the winning time.

year 5 girls podium

Year 5 boys results

 The year 5 boys race was close too with a duo from Millfields taking the top two spots - Harris first and Henry second with canon from Mandeville coming third.

year 5 boys podium

We'll be back at Forest road for the year 5/6 Roller racing in January - the will be over 500m so we'll see who and how this affects the results. Roll on the New Year..,

League standings after round 3

Cyclocross at the Downs

9/11/18

Year 5 girls race start

 Friday didn't start off too promising as the sky grew increasingly heavy whilst we were setting up the course and as the riders began to turn up the heavens opened up to make the Hackney Downs course nice and slippy for them. Fortunately by the time we were ready to race to the sun came out - not exactly drying the course up but at least shining a light all the way round it.

Sixty riders from six schools were competing and the year 5 girls started off the racing with 4 laps of a technical course with many twists and turns, off cambers and a set of hurdles to get over.

Year 5 girls

 Lilah from Millfields led from the start with the trio of Jubilee girls barttling it our behind her, Grace eventually finishing 2nd with Charlie in third.

Year 5 girls results

 The year 5 boys were next up -

Year 5 boys line up

 - and number 19 seemed to be the lucky number of the day as again it was the winners number. This time it was worn by Harris from Millfields who pulled away from the bunch on lap 2 and had enough time to crash then get back up and win. Logan from Millfields pipped Brandon from jubilee for the other podium spots.

Year 5 boys

Year 5 boys

Year 5 boys results

The year 6 girls were given 5 laps to do amid a bit of grumbling about the distance with the top eight finishers completing all five in under 15 minutes and the rest doing four laps it was a good workout for them.

year 6 girls start

Ishanna won comfortably from her Jubilee team mate Lena with Kingsmead's Lolo coming third.

Year 6 girls results

 In the year 6 boys - again doing five laps - it was a dominant display by the Millfields team looking a bit like the Belgians at the world champs. Swapping places Nikolas and Jimme battled out with Nikolas eventually taking the win and Joseph coming third. Mohammed from Olive really caught the eye with a well executed bike change - he looked very pro.

year 6 boys start

Year 6 boys results

So the league has a familiar look to the top two places after round two with mandeville occupying third spot and Parkwood and Kingsmead on the same points in fourth.

League after round 2

2018-19 season gets underway with the Springfield Hill Climb

12/10/18

 A very windy scene up the hill at Springfield park

The start of the YHPSCL 10th season coincided with the start of another season - autumn. It was a very windy but sunny day up at Springfield Park for the traditional Hill Climb opener, with 79 riders from eight schools taking part. The stormy conditions meant we weren't likely to see any records being broken although the wind seemed to push some riders over the finish line.
The year 4 riders started the event with many having recourse to jumping off and running up the steepest section. Millfields duo Pearl and Pia took first and second with Maya from Jubilee third. Special mention goes to Moniqua from Mandeville for riding up the hill on a single speed bike.

Year 4 girls results

 In the year 4 boys William from Jubilee became the first rider to under 40 seconds to take first place. Sam and Max from Millfields just missed out by hundredths of a second to take second and third.
Again special mention to Alfie from Mandeville for tackling the hill on a single speed - although some Hill Climb purists would claim it's the only way to do it.
Special mention also goes out to Olive Primary School who brought along a small team - I'm sure their numbers will grow.

Year 4 boys results

 Next up were the year 5 riders and in the girls Charlie from Jubilee took top spot closely followed by Lilah  from Millfields - both posting sub 40 second times. Poppy of Jubilee claimed third spot.

In the boys Kayon from Mandeville stormed up almost breaking 30 seconds to take top spot. One hundredth of a second separated second and third placed riders - Bruno from Jubilee and Harris from Millfields. I think we are in for a year of very close competitions.

Year 5 girls results

 

Year 5 boys results

 The year six riders finished off the afternoon. Julia from Southwold rode a great ride to finish first on 32 seconds pipping Lena and Ishanna from Jubilee by 1 and 2 seconds respectively.

In the boys two riders dropped below the 30 second mark - Jimme of Millfields  finished in 28 seconds just half a second ahead of Hector from Southwold. A couple of seconds behind was Demi from Mandeville to claim third spot - no mean feat as he was riding a heavy mountain bike - see here for the top hill climbers use 
- I bet they couldn't do it a mountain bike.

Year 6 girls results

Year 6 boys results

That leaves the league table looking like this after round 1. See you at Hackney Downs on the 8th of November for the next event - Cyclocross.

2018-19 League table after round 1