U41 10 Mile Open Time Trial

The club ran the inaugural time trial on a new 10 mile time trial course at Ashton Keynes along the Spine Road to the Cotswold Water Park and to Latton- known as U41.  The event attracted 50 riders, which is the largest number we have had since stopping events on the A419, presumably because the course looked so flat.  We were blessed with a glorious morning – dry, sunny and almost windless which allowed riders to give of their best.  However, those that ride the club leisure rides know that the road surface in that area has its own special challenge as it sucks speed out of your ride and many riders did comment on that aspect.  However, all enjoyed the course – with a hard left turn near the start challenging the unwary, a bit of pothole avoidance on the Spine Road but no different to most roads these days and expertly marked up by Ian Potts, attacking the climb to the roundabouts and then returning from the Latton roundabout.  (The course can be seen at: https://www.strava.com/activities/1550701736).   Note: any mistakes in rider names, order of name, capitalisation, etc below are down to how they have entered their details in the CTT database and not down to my poor eyesight! ORDER OF FINISH
Tandem
Rider Club Cat Time
1 Ms Joanna Knight Bristol South Cycling Club Lady 00:22:31
Mr Andrew Legge Bristol South Cycling Club V4
Solo
Rider Club Cat Time
1 Mr Dan Martin University of Bath Cycling Club Espoir 00:20:41
2 Mr English Nick AeroCoach Senior 00:21:12
3 Mr Lee Francis Velo Club Bristol – Webbs Cycles Senior 00:22:09
  DETAILS OF PRIZEWINNERS

Overall

 
1st Place Dan Martin University of Bath Cycling Club
2nd Place Nick English AeroCoach
3rd Place Lee Francis Velo Club Bristol – Webbs Cycles
Ladies
1st Place Lady Sara Gunn – also winner of Sheila Wiseman Trophy Minuteman CC
Vets
1st Placed Vet Niel Dunnage Cotswold Veldrijden
2nd Placed Vet Phil Brown trainSharp
1st Place V40 Luke Smith Bristol South Cycling Club
1st Place V50 Jim Beales Dursley Road Club
1st Place V60 Christopher Davis (also faster then V50!) Giant CC Halo Films
Tandem
1st Place Ms Joanna Knight  & Mr Andrew Legge Bristol South Cycling Club
Team
1st Team Bristol South Cycling Club – Smith/Griffiths/Kemp
It was great to have several teams at this event for the first time in many years and the team results were: Team Placings 
Bristol South Cycling Club Mr Luke Smith 00:22:31
Bristol South Cycling Club Mr Griffiths Josh 00:22:13
Bristol South Cycling Club Mr Daniel Kempe 00:24:13 01:08:57
 
Chippenham & District Wheelers Mr Paul Winchcombe 00:23:00
Chippenham & District Wheelers Mr MIke Cox 00:23:26
Chippenham & District Wheelers Mr Jamie Richardson paige 00:23:33 01:09:59
 
Dursley Road Club Mr Stephen White 00:24:34
Dursley Road Club Mr graeme davis 00:22:49
Dursley Road Club Mr Jim Beales 00:22:58 01:10:21
 
Swindon Road Club Mr Peter Garnett 00:22:42
Swindon Road Club Mr Roy Carless 00:24:04
Swindon Road Club Mr Broad-Drake Chris 00:24:22 01:11:08
  As always these events cannot be run without support from the club and its members, so our thanks to: Emma Angove – managed the HQ which allowed the Racing Secretary to race his own course Sheila and Mike Edwards – Timekeeping and start sheet boards Doug Gale – West DC Start Time Keeper Ian Potts and Paul Freegard – who helped lay the course and Ian marshalled (and were there very early to help) John Else – signing on Andrew Spearman – pusher off Robbie Richardson – start official and traffic count Chris Tweedie – finish official and traffic count Jeremy Tyzack – turn roundabout and rider counter Helen and Martin Priestley – marshal and traffic count Fiona Waind and daughter – kitchen and cakes Paul Winchcombe – everything else Remember the next club open event is the 25 mile time trial on 24 June starting at a more civilised 0930 hours.  So if you can give up your time please do.