Macclesfield Cross – 5 November

Here’s some photos from Jon Williams.

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The first of Macclesfield Wheelers’ two annual cyclo-cross events, incorporating the Post Office national championships, was organised by Mark Bethell on Sunday 5th Nov and held in the south park Macclesfield.

87 lined up for the main event but prior to this there had been a noticeable increase of U12’s and U16’s with 24 U12s and over 30 youths lining up. The increase is mainly due to Ivor Armstrong and his British Cycling team of coaches who have been giving some excellent training advice to the youngsters. They did in fact bring them to the park the day before to give them on the course training. This is good news and makes good use of the park which stands cyclists in good stead with the council. This is the approach we need to get more kids into a worthwhile sport with the backing of local authorities.

On a very mild day and a very dry course the going was fast and Phil Dixon (SIS Trek) set off like a rocket and within 2 laps the leading breakaway four of Dixon, Lewis Craven (Wheelbase),Craig Denning (Sports Coaching) and Dave Ebbrell (Backburn CTC) had been formed.

They forged away from the rest on the 2.11 km circuit and after 12 laps Dixon had lapped all but Craven to finish 3min 33sec ahead with Denning coming in a lap down.