TIME TRIALS:
Hot conditions and lots of sunshine on a fast course on Saturday saw HWCC’s Adam Topham PB by 5.01 minutes at the Corinium and Bristol South 50 mile TT. He placed a very good 7th overall with an outstanding time of 1.45.01. James Wall won the event in 1.42.57.
Greg Lewis also achieved a personal best time of 56.33 at the CDLC 25TT. This was a PB by 20 seconds.
Over at Newbury RC 10TT riders were also out braving the heat. Richard Prebble took the win in 20.23 with our 2nd claim rider Steve Golla taking 2nd place in 20.31. Richard Davies placed 27th in 24.05 that afternoon, riding again that evening despite the thunderstorm at the Hertfordshire Wheelers 10TT where he placed 27th again in 22.16. He just missed out on a PB by 7 seconds. Although the air was still and fresh the riders had a lot of spray from the traffic to contend with! Dave Lancaster also competed that evening and considering he was the last to ride and had no warm up due to the worsening weather, still came in with a very commendable time of 24.05.
Sunday bought our guys out again to ride. Wycombe were on top form over at the Newbury RC 25 TT scooping the team prize by over a minute from the Newbury boys. Our team was made up of Chris Starling 56.21, Richard Davies 1.01.21 and Chris Greig 1.01.37 with Steve Golla taking the win in 52.23.
Elsewhere, slightly closer to home, Wycombe’s Geoff Powell was at Great Missenden at the Westerley CC 10TT. Geoff achieved a PB of 22.42 placing second to the Westerley’s Malcolm Woolsey in 22.35.
ROAD RACE:
No actual race results but the breaking news of the week is that HWCC’s James Norris has been selected by British Cycling to ride as part of a team in the Tour of Wales. This is a 5-day stage race starting on Wednesday. Well done James awesome achievement and good luck!
SPORTIVES:
Last weekend saw Frank Fallon going back to his Scottish roots to ride the 100 mile Trossachs Ton Sportive. Taking him round many of his old training miles through some very picturesque parts of Central Scotland with 2115 metres of climbing he finished in 6.44!
Also last weekend a number of HWCC riders were out taking part in the brutal and very hilly Circuit of the Cotswolds. Our riders were Jeff Roberts 6.32.30 Silver, Simon Holmes 5.38.49 Gold, Andrew Mullis 6.21.59 Gold and Adrian Windsor 5.58.25 Gold. I also believe Stuart Smith was riding, don’t have a time for him but I believe he got a Silver.
Seasoned Sportive rider Ossie Assem was out this Sunday braving the tough climbs of the Chiltern 100 Challenge. He completed this challenging course in 5.55.
MTB:
Neil Wragg was out this weekend competing in the English MTB Marathon Championships. This was a very hard 100km course through the New Forest and was one of the toughest races he has ever taken part in. Riding through bumpy fields, rutted single track and rocky off camber woods pushed Neil’s ability but he carried on through high humidity to finish in a very commendable 14th place.
TRACK:
No news from HWCC’s resident trackie Stewart King although rumour has it that father and son duo Kev and Joe Holloway have recently been letting their presence be known at Palmer Park!
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