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Cambridgeshire Road Race in 2016. She got on the podium in the road race, but it was the time
trial she had seen the previous day which looked safer and grabbed her attention.
That led to her entering the Cambridgeshire time trial in 2017 and also the South DC Sporting
events. It was after one of these that she met up with competition organiser David Collard-Berry
and asked him if she could join his club A3 Cycle Racing Group or …a3crg, named after the
Portsmouth-London road. In May that year she got her time trial bike. “A lot has happened
since then,” she said.
That included fracturing her elbow and pelvis after a crash in May 2018. While she didn’t bounce
when she hit the deck, she soon bounced back onto the bike and was into winning ways.
The risk of crashing, by the way, is why she doesn’t road race. Her turbo trainer has taken a
pounding this winter because her job as a chartered financial planning director gives her limited
time, and the extra mud caused by the winter’s copious rain means she left the mountain bike
safely at home.
“In winter I do a fair bit of turbo, but probably only average four sessions per week including any
outdoor rides,” she said. “I am often time-crunched, so turbo is efficient use of time and my
only option of a winter evening.

“It is good for sanity though to ride outside when the winter weather and light permits. I don't
go to the gym but know I should. I try and do a bit of weights and conditioning at home, but this
is sporadic and not nearly enough.”

She was “truly staggered and overwhelmed” by last year’s success. “2019 was a challenging year
for a variety of reasons and I struggled mid-season but kept going in the belief that it would
come good again. I was overwhelmed with my achievements and best performances. I had no
idea really. I race a lot - too much - so I was just racing and moving on without realising all the
achievements racking up.”
Next year and beyond she is looking “for more of the same” but likes to be “flexible in her
approach”. “I have no idea how long I will continue. As long as I enjoy both the training and
racing . . . and can stay motivated.”

Angela is definitely a determined woman. “I enjoy pushing and challenging myself, and the
challenge of pushing through workouts or races to see what the body and mind can deliver. I
naturally want to do things as best as I personally am able to and strive to get the best out of
myself,” she said.
She has no special diet and includes in her favourite foods curries and spicy stir fries, good wine
and “quality chocolate”.
“I enjoy all sorts of music including Cold Play, Eva Cassidy, The Lightning Seeds . . . but turbo
tunes are all about energy/dance, featuring CamelPhat*.”
*Dave Whelan and Mike Di Scala, best known for getting to No 3 in the UK Dance Chart with Cola
in 2017.

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