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Team Herbalife and Leisure Lakes Bikes.com Enter 2012 Road Racing Season

Team Herbalife-Leisurelakesbikes.com will be entering the 2012 road racing season after a superb 2011 season, finishing 4th overall in the national rankings, ahead of many professional teams with much larger budgets.  Team Herbalife-Leisurelakesbikes.com will be competing in major events such as The Tour Series, The National Elite Circuit Series and of course The Premier Calendar road races.

For 2012 Team Herbalife Leisure Lakes Bikes.com will be using Herbalife 24 nutritional products for racing and training which provides a full complement of nutritional requirement for the competitive athlete around the clock. The Herbalife 24 programme provides the athlete with the right ingredients in the correct quantities, to train and recover, without becoming deplete of the essential macro nutrients . The Herbalife 24 products allow for training preparation, refuelling and electrolyte replacement whilst racing, to recovery and muscle repair post exercise. ‘Prolong’ has a revolutionary formula that eliminates the need for energy gels and reduces muscle breakdown during prolonged periods of exercise.

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Team Herbalife Cyclist Wins National Hill Climb Championships 2011

Team Herbalife Wheelbase cyclist Lynn Hamel wins the Lady’s National Hill Climb Championships. Riding the 4.4m course up Long Hill in Derbyshire it was the culmination of a season long effort for Lynn who won the event by 20 seconds.

Hamel, who rides for Team Herbalife wheelbase.co.uk, said: “My preparation for this year’s championship has been very different to other years due to the length and rather shallow gradient of Long Hill.”

Setting off from the line in sunny and mild conditions, but with a gusty head wind, Hamel recorded a time of 15.38.6, which bettered her previous best on the climb by 37 seconds and represented an impressive average speed of 16.99mph.

She added: “Back at the head quarters the feeling of elation was overwhelming as my last seven weeks of training and learning flashed before me.”

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