Gerallt Allen
Holly Bradbrook
Layla Bradbrook
Stephen Bradbrook
Ben Bright
Twm Bryn
Tom Davies
David Griffiths
Will Harding
Ben Lewis
Oscar Lloyd
Chris Mann
Jack Nash
Ella Oldfield
Ifan Oldfield
Ioan Oldfield
Simon Parkinson
Scott Roberts
Darren Wareing
Scott Williams
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Gerallt Allen
Bio: I started racing when I was around 12 or 13 years old. We would turn up on a Sunday morning all year round, meeting on a public footpath just down the road from Marsh Tracks is now. We had to dodge walkers and dogs while training on a track that wasn't even 2 meters wide. I remember my first race, it was on the sea front in Aberystwyth I was riding a bike Rhyl CC had loaned me, the Trek 1000 (I think it still get loans out to people now). I got 3rd that day and I just loved it. It wasn't for a couple more season till Marsh Tracks got built and the main racing I had doing was TT's, whether it was the local league or bigger races in Cheshire and Merseyside. I enjoyed TT's and still hold some of the youth and junior course records today, maybe -
Holly Bradbrook
Road and CX Racer. Bio: Blame my Dad: I started racing by doing last cyclocross event of a season and cried for the entire race, the following year I competed in the whole series and have done so every year since for the last 5 years. I also compete in the Welsh Tristart series and have done this for the past 3 years. Last year I started to compete in road races at marsh tracks to help my fitness for cyclocross and won my age category, I’m..... -
Layla Bradbrook
Bio: I started cycling when I was 5 and started racing when I was 7 doing cyclocross in the North wales cyclocross league with my Dad and sister. In the 2016 Welsh Champs I won a silver medal which I was really happy with. In 2014 I started to go the Marsh tracks Thursday night sessions with..... -
Stephen Bradbrook
Road and CX Racer. Bio: I started cycling when I was 15 and raced, on occasion, until I was 18 and found the pub. I took on Weight training/body building until a serious motorbike accident in 1995 had me back on my old bicycle as I was unable to walk but could ride a bike. This gave me a little taste again but didn’t start again seriously until May 1998 when I stopped going to the gym completely. I started racing in Feb 1999, racing against juniors such as Steve Cummings and a certain Cavendish during those first couple of years. I did my first Cyclocross race in..... -
Ben Bright
I have been riding my bike for as long as I can remember, and been into any type of exercise. My dad was always keen for us to go out on cycle rides; I started really enjoying it when I was about 7 years old. I went on to start racing in the North Wales Go race MTB events, where I progressed up to regional events and had some good results. I won the Welsh U12’s XC MTB series and Championships in 2015. Last season was my first season in Juvenile and I started to find out about how the British Cross Country MTB races work, I raced all but one race with my best finish being 7th and... -
Twm Bryn
Bio: I used to ride my orange MTB to my mate's house and loved the feeling of freedom when I was 11 years old and a few weeks down the line we joined a local cycling club that was run by John Holt the father of the very successful Joe Holt. I went on Sunday rides every week and absolutely loved it. I went to my local... -
Tom Davies
Road Racer. Bio: I got into cycling after the 2012 Olympics. I was inspired by the whole GB thing and wanted to have ago. I went down to a Sunday morning session at Marsh Tracks run by Rhyl CC. I loved it straight away. I just wanted to keep improving and enjoy riding my bike. I started training and racing properly in 2014. In 2015 I did more regional races, as well as my favourite discipline, the Time Trial. After a solid winter and starting track racing at Manchester and Newport. I was given the chance to represent Wales at..... -
David Griffiths
Time Trail Captain Bio: My parents bought me a racing bike in 1983. It was silver and red and probably made out of pig iron but I thought it looked really cool – until I ended up face down in a load of nettles and felt it was all the bike’s fault. I then played guitar in different bands up and down the country and had no exercise. Roll on 25 years and a Dr advised me in his best clinical tone ‘get some exercise you lazy man’. So I bought a Merlin Malt 4..... -
Will Harding
I am 14 years old and started racing mountain bikes at the age of 6. I started racing in the North Wales Go-Race Mountain Bike Series, organised by Welsh Cycling, and won my age category a few times as I moved up through the age groups. I came third in my first Welsh Mountain Bike Series race (WMBS), when I was 9 years old, which I was very happy with. My first win in this series was when I was 11 years in Builth Wells. Since then I have come 2nd in the Welsh Mountain Bike Championships and in 2016 I won the WMBS and competed in all of the British Mountain Bike Series, with my best result being 8th in Dalby Forest. I have also raced Marsh Tracks Summer Series in 2016... -
Ben Lewis
Road Racer. Bio: I started cycling when I was 10 years old, not competitively, just for fun. I always looked up to my Dad on his road bike, going out on the local club rides so I decided to give it a go. I went to my local kids session in Rhyl for a couple of years. At the time I was a big swimmer as well. This lead me to competing in Triathalon when I was 12, competing all over the place and achieving some good results at Welsh national level. I didn't really enjoy riding and running in sodden lycra and drenched trainers, so I stuck..... -
Oscar Lloyd
Bio: I first started riding my bike when I was four. I started racing for fun on my mountain bike, I enjoy going to Llandegla, I prefer going uphill rather than downhill though. I entered a few go ride cross country races and really enjoyed it, especially when I won a couple. I got my first road bike 2 years ago, I started racing Go ride and won my first race in Birkenhead Park. I rode quite a few races last year, i raced regularly at Litherland, Southport, Birkenhead Park and Marsh Tracks. Marsh tracks is my favourite and I have had had 3 wins there too... -
Chris Mann
Road Racer Bio: Picked up cycling as a hobby around 2-3 years ago after my older brother and Dad did the Coast to Coast (Whitehaven-Sunderland). I was inspired and decided to start riding, I was instantly hooked! I have been constantly improving over these past two years or so and have far greater ambitions than I expected..... -
Jack Nash
Road and MTB Racer Bio: I’ve been racing bikes of all kinds for years but it all started around 10 years ago when I started to race xc mountain biking. I progressed from racing go-ride races to racing national events and have even represented Wales in the inter regional championships for mountain bike xc and cyclocross. For the last few years I’ve participated in a few criterium races and this year as a junior I hope to progress in road racing. With the support of Marsh Tracks Race Team I hope to develop as a rider and pass my experience..... -
Ella Oldfield
I started cycling when I was 10 to help with triathlon and started racing when I was about 12. I started racing cyclocross because I had to go to a cyclocross race with my brothers and thought I might as well have a go. It was hard, but I completed the rest of the series and won. I have raced this season too... -
Ifan Oldfield
I have raced xc mountain biking since I was 9 years old in the North Wales go-race series and more recently in the Welsh and British series’. Unfortunately I broke my collarbone earlier this year and missed out the majority of the 2016 mountain bike season. More recently I have raced in the North Wales cyclo cross series where I have achieved some good results... -
Ioan Oldfield
I started to ride a bike at the age of three and started to race in the go race mountain bike series when I was under 6. I have raced in the Welsh Mountain Bike series, road crits and cyclo cross races. I was under 8’s Welsh Champion for road and mountain biking. I am happiest when I am on my bike and have made lots of new friends from cycling, I hope that racing for the Marsh Tracks team will help me develop my skills, have fun and continue to make new friends... -
Simon Parkinson
Road Race - Captain. Bio: My love for bikes started at the age of 11 when I started racing Downhill Mountain Bikes. I competed at world cup level at the age of 15. After sustaining a serious shoulder injury I started to ride on the road. It wasn’t long before my competitive streak took me to competing..... -
Scott Roberts
Before I decided I wanted to do road cycling I was heavily involved in playing football from the age of 7. I started playing locally but then as I progressed I spent a lot of time travelling to Manchester, Birmingham and Stoke City Fc, In 2013 I was playing for Stoke City Academy training hard and enjoying my football life... -
Darren Wareing
Team Lead (On behalf of the Marsh Tracks Board of Directors) Bio: In relation to cycling, as this is a cycling team, I got my first "proper" 5 speed road bike at the age of 9. So that was 1978. Jack Hughes built it up for me, great job he did too. I was the envy of all my friends and I went everywhere on it. I had a string of road bikes and lots of fad bikes throughout the years. I went everywhere on my bike. As I had a family and new career (I started off as an electronics engineer in Aerospace - still don't know why..... -
Scott Williams
I am fourteen years old and I race in MTB XC, Cyclocross and Road. I have been racing for about four years now, and in 2016 I represented wales in MTB XC which I am very proud of. I started to race when I was ten in MTB XC at the Go Ride races and I ended up doing very well in the Series coming first. It was a couple months after I started to race MTB XC that I realised that to progress I had to improve fitness and one way of doing this was to begin road riding. After training for a while I was introduced to the Welsh MTB XC series, and I did my first proper race...