The truth is: 'We're very good'

THEY refer to time trialing as 'the race of truth'.

And for local cycling the truth is that the island has the best crop of youngsters in the Velo Club's 40-year history and a national champion in Dan Arblaster, who not only took the title but set the fastest ever 10-mile time in the annual event.

Club president Gary Wallbridge rates the trio's achievements as 'certainly the best result Guernsey has achieved at national level'. 'First and second is almost unbelievable and with Callum's time we were a close second in the team event only two seconds outside the old team record with a combined time of 1hr 2min. 15 sec.

The Glendene team won the team event beating the GVC time by only 22 sec. and also setting a new team record. 'Considering the Glendene team cherry-picks the top riders from across the UK to join and develop them, the results by the Guernsey trio are even more remarkable,' said Wallbridge.