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 |
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| 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.
