MALVERN Cycle Sport’s promising 10-year-old rider Hattie Dale completed her first non-competitive mass-participation cycle event over 50 kilometres.
The Bromyard youngster did the Hell of the North Cotswolds (HONC) with her father Ben and around 1,000 other riders.
They went over hills and through mud to complete the route in three hours 45 minutes.
All junior riders who completed the ride were entered into a draw for a new Whyte mountain bike and to top off her day Dale was chosen as the lucky winner.
She is already planning her next challenge on the new bike and aims to attend June’s Malverns Classic Cycle Festival.
Dale is another product of the Malvern Cycle Sport youth coaching system and has followed in the footsteps of Commonwealth Games silver medallist Evie Richards and Hattie Harnden.
Her father was a pro elite cross-country mountain bike rider in the late 1990s.
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