Jamie Pullen will be pulling on a Redhill Raiders top when he races this coming year.... and he'll be showing it when British Cycling run their next sessions for top young riders in the region as a member of the circuit RSR sessions at Cyclopark with BC coaches.
It looked at first that he'd be too young, at the age of just 13, as most RSR members are aged 14-16, and the message was 'hold fire for another year' but then came the upgrade and Jamie was taken into the programme to develop the top talent further.
The plan was to take a photo of Jamie at the session at Leigh on Saturday but I arrived an hour early, went back home, then mid-lunchtime sandwich I got a message that a group of 12 were waiting for me at the village hall in the high winds, wondering where I was, and (sadly) I returned only this time without the camera.
So here's a photo of Jamie from 2009 at a Redhill Raiders session.
Jamie sent over an email message last week saying: "Just thought I'll send you a quick note to say I got home from school today to find out I was offered a place in the circuit RCRs.
"I was really excited to get the news and just wanted to say thank you very much for putting my name forward and the time you spent doing this and the faith you have in me.
"I'll be proud to wear a Redhill Raiders kit at RCRs."
Jamie is the second Raider to be pushing his limits in RSR sessions - Max Mansell-Rowe is in the group of riders undertaking track RSRs.
Well done to you both.
Another well done is due to Louis McLeod who was putting in laps at Leigh on Saturday after spending the morning at Herne Hill for a track sessions.
Louis rolled up with Keith Workman.... the last time Keith was about he was still on crutches after his serious mishap with a pothole while cycling up in Oxfordshire.
The high wind on Saturday didn't trigger enthusiasm for a time-trialling training session as riders would have either been putting in 3-min efforts along Gadbrook Rod into a headwind (my plan) or in the reverse direction with a tailwind (Matthew Ferguson's plan) (crafty boy).
So instead two groups did totally different laps/circuits and when they got back the stopwatch showed a time difference of 1min 9secs.
They then swopped circuits, the plan being that if the second time difference was the same it would show they had been working just as hard.... or one group had been slacking.
The rule was each group could only shed one rider.
The rule was ignored...... no end of riders were shredded in the process.
They are driven these riders, you have to say..... and a tad unmanageable.