Five days after the opener in Redditch, the OVO Energy Tour Series migrated north of the border, to the town of Motherwell, just to the south-east of Glasgow. The Tuesday evening race marked the fourth visit by the Tour to the town and a 45 minute-long race around the 1.2km circuit. Debutant Zoe Brookes replaced... Continue Reading →
OVO Energy Tour Series 2018 #1 – Redditch
The OVO Energy Tour Series celebrated its 10th edition in 2018, with eight town and city centres welcoming the only British domestic cycle race Series to be televised on terrestrial, free-to-air TV. Although as a team, this was the debut appearance for Admiral Liv AWOL, team riders Charlotte Broughton and Clover Murray were returning for... Continue Reading →
EPZ Omloop van Borsele 2018
The team's second European excursion in the month came for the UCI/2 sanctioned Junior Women's Nations Cup, and five riders were there representing Admiral Liv AWOL. Emily Bridson, Connie Hayes, Elizabeth Marvelly, Rosie Wallace along with guest rider, Poppy Wildman. This event includes most of the top Junior riders in the World, so this was... Continue Reading →
Healthy Ageing Tour and De Brabantse Pijl 2018
The Easter holidays provided an opportunity for the team to take some of the riders on a trip to Holland and Belgium to experience some continental racing, involving bigger fields and different racing styles and conditions. The plan was to take in the 3-stage Healthy Ageing Tour for Junior Women event based around towns near... Continue Reading →
Connie’s Winter Wrap
I always find the winter months difficult as I switch from the high of the road season to cyclo-cross where I am playing a very different game. However, there must be something that I love about falling off multiple times per race, ‘freezing to death’ and battling the 80% rule at national trophy races. My... Continue Reading →
And in other disciplines
Despite Liv AWOL having a strong presence on the Cyclocross circuit, they are also well represented across other cycling disciplines, and there is no shortage of action from the last few weeks. Zoe Brookes, was invited to race with pro-team NCC Group-Kuota-Torelli in the Future Stars programme, part of the 3 stage Revolution Series which runs... Continue Reading →
CX Series Finale & National Championships
Liv AWOL supports its riders competing across multi-disciplines, and this winter there has been a strong presence on the cyclocross front. Over the last few weeks, they have been racing in the Trophy Series Finale in Ipswich, the National Championships at Hetton Lyons Park in Tyne & Wear, as well as several regional races. Just before... Continue Reading →
New Year’s Day Herne Hill CX Madison
At late notice on New Year's Eve, I agreed to partner the super talented Maddie Gammons in a Madison cyclocross race at Herne Hill. Neither of us had ever done a cyclocross Madison before and both thought that the concept sounded brilliant. If you don’t know, the race is on a normal cross course with... Continue Reading →
Looking back down the 2017 road
Now that the road season is over I think it’s appropriate for me to have a look back on what I have managed to achieve this year. If you had told a thirteen-year-old Connie what I have done this year she would have laughed and not believed you at all. This year has seen me... Continue Reading →
RTTC National Time Trial Championships
Three Liv AWOL team members competed at the RTTC National Closed Circuit Time Trial Championships at Thruxton on Sunday, while other teams members were busy competing in their club TT championships, and also cyclo-cross events across the country, with several podium spots amongst them. The results for three riders at Thruxton were Lauren Higham, win... Continue Reading →