TORQ UK Fitness Consultancy

Sherwood Pines played host to the opening round of this year’s 2006 NPS Cross-Country series and duly provided more tension & drama than an episode of Eastenders. Torq riders were in abundance, mixing it with the best, as each category brimmed with talent & expectations.

A classy group of strong juniors were the first to tackle the 7.5 miles loops of fast dusty trails and killer singletrack, including Team TORQ/Kona rider Jay Spetch. Unfortunately for Jay a technical hitch at the start of his race nearly made him miss the actual race. Starting from the back of the grid, he nearly came a cropper as the first crash of the race happened just in front of him, surely nothing else could go wrong! But as they say bad things happen in 3’s and Jay came a cropper in the tight singletrack, losing even more time. Eventually disappointed he came home in 3rd after a hard battle to gain all that ground. Dave Fletcher took the win.