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Ystwyth Cycling Club’s youngest rider, 6 year old Joshua Tarling from Ffosyffin, continued his excellent first year of racing with a fine 3rd place in the Wolverhampton Wheelers Circuit Race in Shrewsbury on 15th May. Joshua lined up against a strong field of riders from across Wales in the 8 lap race, most of which were older and more experienced at this type of racing. After a fast start the race settled down with a 3 rider breakaway going clear just after half-distance with Joshua seeing the danger and getting in the group. The 3 worked well together until the final sprint where Josh, despite his age, ran the older boys close eventually settling for a fine 3rd place.

This latest performance backs up the strong start to his first ever racing season following on from a 2nd and a 1st in March at Shrewsbury and a fine 3rd against strong opposition at Castle Combe in Wiltshire over the Easter weekend. With ranking points awarded to top 3 positions Josh is now ranked 4th best under 8 in Wales.

A day after Cameron ousted Brown at number 10, Lewis ousts Thorogood in the far more important Ystwyth 10, the differenve being that Danny will have ample chances to reverse the result, starting with next weeks hilly 24 at Southgate.

41 starters was another great turnout on a cold damp evening.

The course for the race a challenging circuit, which is 680 metres for the youth races and later an extra 300 metres of the north prom is opened up for the Go-Race and main event. The race goes anti-clockwise and start and finishes opposite the crazy golf course at the south end of the Old College.

Aber Seafront Crit course map