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Well the website finally posted the results from the Road Race – Brayden came 7th again with a time of 1:36:04 – Great Job Brayden!!!
He’s now on his way back to Quebec – next races are Road Nationals in Burlington – June 30th to July 3rd. Go Brayden Go!
Hey guys – sorry it took a bit to get this up – I haven’t heard from Brayden, but they finally posted the results online. Brayden came 7th with a personal best! (32:50:40) Great job Brayden!!! Road Race is on Sunday for him (middle of Saturday night for us) – I’ll get those results up as soon as they’re available.
Hey guys – I know it’s been a while since we’ve posted (so long in fact that I forgot the site to log into…) – Brayden has had a busy year – he’s been to Italy already this spring and has been training in Quebec since then. Brayden headed off to Segovia, Spain on Sunday and will be competing in the Para-Cycling Road UCI World Cup there.
First race is tomorrow – at 2pm Segovia time (6am Calgary time) – it’s a 21km Time Trial.
The other race as far as I can tell is at 11am on Sunday (3am Calgary time?) – the 55.5km Road Race. Brayden seems to think there’s a third race, but I can’t find it on the Spanish site… so I’ll keep you posted if I hear of any other results!
He’ll be racing against 12 other cyclists in his category.
You can cheer him on by sending him a message here or on Facebook!
GO BRAYDEN GO!!!
PS: The website for the race is here. Just in case you’re interested!
Today Brayden had the road race – and unfortunately he had mechanical problems and finished well back in 12th.
It was a good day for Canada though as Jaye finished 5th and Marie Claude finished 2nd for a silver medal!
That’s it for Brayden’s racing for a while… track worlds aren’t until the fall, so he’ll be coming home to Calgary and continuing to train as he goes back to Mount Royal in September.
Today was the Time Trial and Brayden did awesome.
Brayden missed the podium by 30 sec and finished 4th in 40:31 – a personal best! He held 2nd going into the long downhill (5 km to go), but could not hold off the US rider.
Tomorrow is the Road Race – GO BRAYDEN GO!!
Sorry guys – I’ve been getting updates from Brayden and just haven’t had a minute to post them. Here’s the summarized version:
Here’s the official website for the races and I’ll be posting as I get emails from my Dad/brother – feel free to send Brayden messages through the site – he’d love to hear from you!
The road race did not go so well… I ended up crashing twice on the same stretch of the course. Both times into a wall. I did finish though, and I’m okay, just a little stiff and sore. I think the category that I’m in is the right one, I just didn’t show it very well yesterday. Today I’m going to get some rest – eat properly, get to bed on time – and hope the time trial goes better tomorrow. I’ll keep you posted.
Hi guys,
Sorry it’s been so long. Breanne and I are working on a new way of keeping the site up to date. We’ll see how it goes! Let us know if there are things you want to hear more about.
So the biggest news is that they’ve changed the cycling classifications. I’m now a C1. I’m not really sure who else is in my category anymore. This is the definition of C1 from the UCI:
Cycling Class C1
Neurological
• Hemiplegia, spasticity grade 3 in lower and upper limb
• Diplegia, lower spasticity Grade 2-3 in both legs
• Athetosis or ataxia
• Locomotor dysfunction, can be mixed pattern (athetosis, spasticity or ataxia)
• Poor functional strength in trunk, and / or in all extremities
UCI CYCLING REGULATIONS
Amputation:
• Single amputation of leg, AK, and arm, AE or BE, on same side or diagonal, with or
without the use of a prosthesis
• Double TK amputation with the use of prostheses
• Double amputation BE + Single amputation AK, no prosthesis.
Comparable incomplete spinal cord injury or comparable multiple impaired with a tested point score
more than 210 points.
I’m not sure what it means exactly, but I think they’re trying to make things more fair. So hopefully it works.
I’ve been training lots this year already and have gone to Quebec for races once and did a camp in Cuba too. They videoed me in Cuba and you can see it here.
Anyway – now I’m in Sevilla, Spain at the Para-Cycling World Cup. It’s pretty good so far. We flew here on Monday and it’s taken me a bit to get used to the time zones. Our hotel is nice and we’ve done a few rides around – I will have two races while I’m here, the road race and the time trial. The Road Race is today and is a course that we do 4 laps of. It’s 13.2 km. I race again on the 13th in the Time Trial. It’s 21 km.
Since I’m by myself here (well with the team, but no Mom & Dad) and I’m not good at remembering stuff I brought a book to write everything down so I don’t forget. My French is getting better too since all the guys here speak it most of the time and if I don’t learn it I don’t know what’s going on. So I’m trying!
Anyway, I’m off to race. I’ll update you on the results. Here are some websites with info about the races though.
Canadian Cycling Association News
Well we made it here. And today was an adventure.
My buddy Jean and I went for a ride on the course. And then got lost! I emailed my Dad & Bre, but they couldn’t really help me. We stopped and I asked a police man. He was trying to help me. Luckily Eric was driving by with the hand bikes and saw us and stopped and gave us a ride back to the hotel. So now we are back at the hotel and everything is good and we are ready to party.
My road race is Saturday. It’s 48 km.
Time trial is Sunday and it’s 21 km.
Here is the website for the races – its a bit confusing though. http://www.piacenzaparacycling.com
Image taken by netNicholls, found on Flickr
Well I just heard from Brayden and he had some great news to share – he will be going to Piacenza, Italy to compete in the Trofeo Internazionale Piacenza (Road Race & Time Trial) at the end of July! They announced the team today and he’s part of it.
YAY BRAYDEN!!!