Arctic-Premier's Danny Axford has taken his first national title after nearly 15 years of top-flight performances at home and abroad. Despite his climber's build, Danny has always held his own in a time trial and proved it on the biggest stage of all by winning the Masters (Over-30) National time trial last Sunday (7th September).
Axford finished a comfortable 48 seconds clear of his nearest competitor, Ben Anstie, to finish in 30:45 -a time that put him clear of not just the competition in his own age category, but also everybody in the other Master's age groups. As a result, Danny gets to wear the coveted red-white-blue British Cycling National Champion’s jersey for the next year in all time trials for Masters.
This is the first British Cycling Championship win (as opposed to CTT national hill climb titles currently held by James Dobbin) Arctic-Premier has scored since 2006, when Peter Bissell stormed to the Under-23 road title in Oxfordshire.
James Dobbin has also kick-started his hill-climb season with a big win in the Snake Pass Hill Climb. James is likely to set the British scene alight once more in the coming 2 months, so stay tuned to find out more. |
