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Rider Profile: Richard Somerset |
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Written by Administrator
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Thursday, 11 March 2010 |
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| Name |
Richard Somerset |
| Nickname (if any) |
Badger |
| Age |
42 |
| Years cycling |
19 |
| Joined club |
1999 |
| Where do you live |
Welwyn Garden City |
| Favourite rider and why |
Phillipe Gilbert, just love his instinctiveness and the fact he is willing to give it a go. |
| How would you describe your riding style |
Mercurial |
| Cycling Strengths |
Accounts |
| Cycling Weaknesses |
An unwillingness to specialise resulting in breathtaking mediocrity in all aspects of cycle sport |
| Favourite ride |
I used to really enjoy the last 20 miles of the Bournemouth training ride: Creech Hill, the technical descent to Corfe Castle, then the mega hard road to the ferry, then waving goodbye to your clubmates as they arrive later than you. Abroad my favourite is the Tilff-Bastogne-Tilff randonee (I always have a good day), at home the Dragon Ride 2009 was excellent |
| Best race performance (if any) |
22nd in Divisional Champs in 1995, also beating Tony Bradford in a Herts Wheelers club 10, and winning five races in three weeks at Welwyn Track League in 2001 (B group I hasten to add) |
| Best day on a bike |
Etape du Tour 1999, finished in top 1000. Also had an amazing day once riding in Belgian Ardennes where flew up all the hills. One of those all too rare float days. |
| Worst day on a bike |
Etape du Tour 2005 closely followed by Etape du Tour 2001, both involved stopping to rest many times on the climbs, horrible. Closely followed by a 10 hour epic tour of Tenerife up Mount Teide in 1995. |
| Most embarrassing cycling moment |
Not much springs to mind but chain snapping after 30 seconds on Luton Reliability ride this year is quite embarrassing. Funnily enough I have never failed to unclip my pedals at traffic lights. |
| Best training tip |
Rest rest rest |
| Cycling food |
Tea and cake (from Emily's at Whitwell naturally) |
| Best/Worst Crash |
Welwyn Track League 1999, points race, tangled handlebars in finishing straight. Lots of blood requiring an ambulance and painful clean up at hospital, nothing broken luckily. I had also crashed five days before in Belgium when I fell off on a level crossing badly hurting my shoulder, so after Welwyn crash I couldn't sleep on either side for a week. |
| Dream bike |
Orbea with Campag Record |
| Favourite cycling saying |
It won't make you any faster, …..where is everybody?, ….car behind… |
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