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Club Race report and Activity summary November 8th 2009

 High Wycombe Club Members Karla Boddy and Paul Morrissey took on a huge challenge this friday 6th November;
At the strt on the far Western point of Pembrokeshire

At the start on the far Western point of Pembrokeshire

raising funds for Christian Lewis Trust, Children’s Cancer Charity which aims to improve the quality of life for children with cancer and offers support to families and individuals affected by a child with cancer.

Karla and Paul (Chippo)cycled from Pembroke Castle to High Wycombe Guild Hall which is 220 miles taking 15hrs 30 minutes. The ride took the club riders over the tough Brecon Beacons National park , through Abergaveny, Ross on Wye, Monmouth, Cheltenham and Oxford arriving in High Wycombe Guild Hall at 13:30. The pair were greeted by Club President Gordon Wright and Margaret Wright and many Family and Freinds .
 The target sponsorship to be raised is set at £1000 .This is almost complete and additional pledges should ensure this target is hit over the next few days; if you would like to donate then please visit;

http://www.justgiving.com/chippo

Over 15 hours later finishing at MacDonalds in High Wycombe!

Over 15 hours later finishing at MacDonalds in High Wycombe!

MTB
 Kevin holloway and Nick calkin (below) took place in the www.trailbreak.co.uk navigator race at Princes Risborough, today.
The 3.5 hour MTB orienteering used a new format where each competitor had to complete 8 checkpoints in a designated order before qualifying to complete the rest of the course.
With local knowledge a great help, Kevin and Nick managed to clear most of the checkpoints, despite early rain making the chalky bridleways fairly tricky, to be placed 1st and 2nd overall. Nick finished on time with 540 points in 1st place and Kevin 2nd,  just 10 points behind on 530.calkin02

 Ralph Dadswell also competed and was placed further down the rankings.

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Club Race report and Activity summary November 2nd 2009

MTB

Nick calkin ventured up to Staffordshire this Sunday for another round of the www.midlandtrailquests.co.uk Autumn Series.

As you can imagine the weather was fairly atrocious to begin with, strong winds and driving rain. However, things brightened up towards the end of the event.

The 3 hour MTB orienteering event took place  in difficult to navigate trails in the northern part of Cannock Chase and slightly easier bridleways to the North.

 Nick  chose a clockwise route and managed to score 309 with a 1 point time penalty which put nick 2nd place overall l point away from last season’s champion Ian Cartwright on 316. However, nick found a 10 point error in his score which he appealed and if the organizer agrees nick  should end up 1st with 319 points

 There’s one round left of the series on the 15th of November  which if nicks  placed reasonably high in he Should be  in with a chance of winning the series overall

Club run – sunday 1st Nov

 Club riders

Paul Morrissey-Neil Wragg-Andrew Mullis- Tony Penal- Adam Britain and Karla Boddy Braved the 27mph winds and torrential rain on this Sundays  clubs training ride.   35 miles were managed in the terrible conditions.

Only one slight crash involving Paul Morrissey and a slippy road surface ( nothing hurt apart from pride) occurred and overall some good training was had in fierce head and cross winds . All riders finished in good condition and enjoyed the wonders of costa coffee after the ride finished .

Wednesday night circuit/ core training west wycombe village hall.

The usual circuit training is underway developing core stability and keeping riders in good shape during the winter off season.  25 + members turned out Wednesday night for the training session which was fun , tough and varied.

The wed training nights have been further enhanced by Dr Gordon Wright with the introduction of a new training and assessment tool ( watt bike). HWCC new watt bike is  being used to test riders power outputs and burst fitness.

This tool will be of great use to coaches at the club and enable an increased understanding of power output and physical ability.  More HWCC riders will be tested as the off season continues however please try to let Gordon know in advance so that the correct time can be allocated.

Regards   Paul Morrissey
High wycombe cycling club press second /sprocket editor.

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Weekend Race Report – 17th October 2009

Time Trials

Richard Davies - Silver Medallist

Richard Davies - Silver Medallist

The Rudy Project sponsored Time Trial Series

Riders – Richard Davies – David Johnson High Wycombe cc Time Trial riders David Johnson and Richard Davies both had success in the Final round of the Rudy Project Time Trial Series this weekend.

 

The last event of the series was held on Salisbury Plain in chilly but sunny conditions.

Richard Davies came second in the Disabled discipline and David Johnson came Fourth in the veteran’s discipline (that’s 2nd on STD). The results series conclusion meant that the two High Wycombe CC riders achieved a superb National SILVER medal position result.

Dave Johnson in non-crossing dressing pose

Dave Johnson in non-crossing dressing pose

The TT series is a points based competition held on sporting courses across the UK. The series consists of 8 events where 5 events being qualifiers for points. There are Categories for men, Woman, juniors, Veterans and Disabled. The whole series requires extreme dedication and specific training so this is a big achievement for Richard and David and one High Wycombe CC are very proud of indeed.

Road Racing /Hill Climb

West London Combine Hill Climb

Riders – Geoff Powell – Kevin Holloway   

In an event that proved popular among High Wycombe’s performance oriented cyclists, 2 club members took part in the West London Combine Hill Climb held on Windsor Hill, Wooburn Green.

  
Kev Holloway

Kev Holloway

Placing joint 3rd out of a field of 29 riders was High Wycombe CC’s Kevin Holloway with a time of 2 minutes 4 seconds, while Geoff Powell placed joint 8th with a time of 2 minutes 15 seconds.  Fastest rider on the day was Rory Atkins of Twickenham CC with a time of 1 minute 58 seconds. 

MTB

Midland Trail quests Series

Rider – Nick Calkin 

This weekend High Wycombe CCs consistent MTB Rider Nick Calkin took part in the Midland Trail quests MTB series in the North Cotswold’s.

 The 3 hour MTB orienteering race started in Upper Brailes, Oxon and took in some of the Beautiful but tough classic Cotswold’s bridleways. After a couple of mishaps early on in the evebt due to wrongly places checkpoints Nick managed to score 355points after coming in 10 minutes late. This result was good enough for a magnificent 1st place overall with last season’s winner Ian Cartwright coming 2nd with 315.

Gorrick Autumn MTB classic

Rick Featherstone (right) with 2007 Trans Poland winning partner Steve Heading

Rick Featherstone (right) with 2007 Trans Poland winning partner Steve Heading

Rider Rick FethersoneHigh Wycombe CC also had more great success this weekend in the Super veterans discipline at the Gorrick Autumn MTB classic

 

Rick Fetherston Raced in tough hard pack conditions to achieve First place. This was Rick’s first MTB race (being an enduro/Trail quest type of rider), Rick said “it was a bit of a Novelty as I have never won an MTB race before”. Ricks result will we hope spur him on to do more MTB races in the future.

 
 
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