that is the overriding message ? if it doesn't hold me back in actually what ends up being quite a dangerous sport at times, it shouldn't hold a kid back at school. alex has to race over—55 kilometres to beat the record in mexico on november the third. he has held it once before in 2015 only for sir bradley wiggins to quickly usurp it. this time there is no shortage of motivation. time for a look at the weather. hello. it's been a brighter day out there for many of us. either side of a weather system that has brought some rain into parts of wales and is spreading east across england. ahead of it in essex, there has been some blue sky, but it is east anglia and south—east england on the weather front. although it is weakening, there is a chance of some splashes of rain for a time this evening before it clears away. behind it, the clearer weather has moved in. there are showers around and that is how things are looking as we get on through the evening