On Sunday 23 February, junior Mark Ketteringham (Prologue Racing Team) judged wind, handicap and timing to perfection to win the 58th Clayton Spring Classic, sprinting from a select front group to hold off the pursuing elite riders on the windswept Bashall Eaves circuit.
Cameron Mason (Seven Racing) and Anna Flynn (Spectra Racing) claimed the Elite Open and Elite Women’s national titles respectively at the 2026 Lloyds National Cyclo-cross Championships. Earlier, Jacob Steed (Sherwood Pines Cycles Forme) and Peggy Knox (ViCiOUS VELO) secured the Junior Open and Junior Women’s titles in cold, wind-affected conditions at Gypsies Green (11 January 2026).
Form, rivalry and winter resilience set the scene for a decisive weekend in South Shields at the 2026 Lloyds National Cyclo-cross Championships (10-11 January)
At Wentworth Woodhouse, Tammy Miller (DAS-Hutchinson) soloed to her first National Road Series win of the season, while teammate Robyn Clay’s seventh place secured both the overall and the inaugural Rapha Super-League title. In the open race, James McKay led a Wheelbase CabTech Castelli 1-2 for his second National Road Series win of 2025, as Adam Howell (Muc-Off–SRCT–Storck) sealed the overall crown and teammate Will Truelove finished fifth, narrowly missing out on the Super-League title claimed by the absent Matt Bostock (TEKKERZ CC).