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| How long before you first won a race? |
| Within one month of first ever race |
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15% |
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| Within first season |
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14% |
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| 2-3 seasons |
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27% |
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| 4 or more seasons |
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11% |
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| Still trying! |
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31% |
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DNAse
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 Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 11:32 am Post subject: How long before you first won a race, |
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| How about a poll on winning races, perhaps this should be qualified as first senior race. |
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Matt Clinton
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Tony Bell
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| Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 11:38 am Post subject: |
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| First race (TT) 1969. First win (schoolboy crit) 1973. |
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Stuart
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| Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 11:44 am Post subject: |
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| Tony Bell wrote: |
| First race (TT) 1969. First win (schoolboy crit) 1973. |
the criteria is 'first senior win'... 
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DNAse
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| Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 11:46 am Post subject: |
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| Yeah, I wasn't going to count timetrials either (save that for another forum) |
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Rob of the Og
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| Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 11:46 am Post subject: Re: How long before you first won a race, |
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| DNAse wrote: |
| How about a poll on winning races, perhaps this should be qualified as first senior race. |
If we're only allowed senior open roadraces, then it took me 10 years from riding my first at 16 to winning one this year aged 26.
I had won a few club timetrials (and hillclimbs) and junior/juvenile timetrials before that though. |
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Tony Bell
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| Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 11:46 am Post subject: |
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Doh! In that case, it was 1976...  |
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MH
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| Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 11:47 am Post subject: |
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Was 15th in my 1st ever race. Packed in the 2nd. Won the 3rd, 4th and 5th!!
Downhill ever since!!  |
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racyrich2
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| Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 12:00 pm Post subject: |
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Started racing (TTs - does that count?) at 15. Turned senior in July. Had to wait till the following June to win a 3/J. And then 2 more years before the next win, a 2/3. Then won for the next 9 years until I packed up proper racing.
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ips
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| Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 12:06 pm Post subject: Re: How long before you first won a race, |
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| Rob of the Og wrote: |
If we're only allowed senior open roadraces, then it took me 10 years from riding my first at 16 to winning one this year aged 26.
I had won a few club timetrials (and hillclimbs) and junior/juvenile timetrials before that though. |
Dooh! I thought we were including club hill climbs with 13 entrants. If not I'm still waiting (can't honestly say I'm trying  ). |
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marlboro man
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| Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 12:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Won a senior race at Local TL when I was 15, 3 years after starting racing. |
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marlboro man
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| Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 12:11 pm Post subject: |
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| First senior road race win was in 2004. Except I was very, very drunk. |
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Captain Slinky
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| Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 12:12 pm Post subject: |
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Started racing in 82' and won my first and only road race in 2002 !!
Twenty years of slogging my guts but hey......it was a fantastic feeling to put that wheel over the line and then raise the arms.
Man, what a rush !!!!
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DNAse
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| Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 12:12 pm Post subject: |
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| Ok so it'll be from your first ever race if you started out 19+ or your first race against seniors if you started out younger |
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Stuart
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| Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 12:30 pm Post subject: |
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I won every race that I entered after 19
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De Rosa
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| Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 1:06 pm Post subject: |
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Never mind about winning races - I don't think I've ever won any points legitimately!  If I get much worse I'll have to join the Shirley Road Club But I'm too young of course. |
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Pacey
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| Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 1:08 pm Post subject: |
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Do time trials count? I once beat a load of coffin dodgers in a 5 mile TT, my finest hour (unless you count being called a fatboy by Sean Yates).
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Matt Clinton
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| Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 1:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Pacey wrote: |
| Do time trials count? I once beat a load of coffin dodgers in a 5 mile TT, my finest hour (unless you count being called a fatboy by Sean Yates). |
If it took you an hour, how long did it take everyone else?
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Pacey
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| Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 1:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Matt Clinton wrote: |
| Pacey wrote: |
| Do time trials count? I once beat a load of coffin dodgers in a 5 mile TT, my finest hour (unless you count being called a fatboy by Sean Yates). |
If it took you an hour, how long did it take everyone else? |
Not training today?
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Roy Gardiner
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| Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 1:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Stuart wrote: |
| I won every race that I entered after 19 |
 Me too, given that this is just for Senior racing.
My number of races entered is 'zero', what's yours?
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