22 women
I thought I had done a cracking 500m but it wasn’t that good – 41.67s (8th).
Ellie Coster came 1st with 37.73s and Janet Birkmyer (4th) 40.15 .
Points Race – lots of attacks from the endurance girls. It kind of made it difficult to know what to do. I only managed to get points (3) on the second to last sprints, but this was good enough for 8th.
Miracle of miracles this put my standing at 4th overall , so I couldn’t get worse than 4th in the sprints. And against the sprinters 4th is what I got, although I would like to think that going for a ‘long one’ (with a very good push from Graham Mitchell!) shook them up a little.
Then the pursuit – 4 laps of whatever Welwyn track is – probably 1850m ??
I came 2nd with 2.33.20 to Niki Kovacs (Brixton) with 2.32.63 . Janet came about 5th I think with 2.35.23.
With just the scratch to go –
Ellie Coster – 7
Janet Birk – 15
Hannah Blount – 18
Me ————–20
Niki Kovacs – 23
Chris Robson 26
Sophie Black –32
Then all the rest
Scratch 18 laps
I launched an attack down the banking fairly early on and a VCL girl caught me and we worked together for probably about 6 laps before aborting.
