Tuesday evening, Dave Lancaster, Greg Lewis and Richard Davies headed off to the F20/10 course to take part in the White Webbs CC evening league.  On what looked set to be a fast night for them, Richard Davies steamed around producing his third fastest ten time of 22.16.  Greg managed to sneak under the 22 minute mark with an awesome time of 21.44 taking of 9 seconds from his PB and Dave Lancaster achieved one of his best times of the year with 24.01.

The dynamic duo Greg and Richard headed off to yet another event on Saturday, this time with Dave Johnson making up the time trialling trio! Gusty, south westerly breeze did not put them putting out yet more good times at the Las Vagas

Institute of Sport 10 on the U47 at Cirencester. DJ achieved his best 10 time in two years with an outstanding 21.19; clearly the Sally Roe diet is having the right effect!  Richard Davies crossed the line in exactly 23 minutes whilst Greg produced his fourth fastest 10 of the year with a 22.34.

Dave Lancaster and Cliff Grant made the journey to Cambridge to ride the Shaftsbury CC Middle Markers 25TT with high hopes of going under the hour.  Unfortunately, the strong south westerly breeze was against them and considering the conditions they were both pleased with their times of, Cliff 62.42 and Dave 63.38.

Tracy J - Record Breraker?

Thursday last week saw a few Wycombe riders out and about at events. Myself and Ralph Dadswell took the tandem trike up to

Norfolk to race in a 15 mile event.  Although we initially thought the balmy night would make it pretty still conditions we were soon proved wrong once we got onto dual carriageway and were hit by quite a head wind to the turn! Despite this and the fact that I haven’t raced in 5 weeks and hardly even been on the bike we kicked out a fairly respectable time of 35.33, possibly securing a new national record!

Over in Great Missenden a few of our boys did the Hillingdon Tri’s 10 TT.  Stewart King 24.55, Mark Wakeley 26.13, Chris Starling 22.32 and Dave Johnson 21.52.

Sunday Tall Chris Greig tackled the 12 hour!  We are very proud of him as he beat last year by 6 miles, clocking up 242 miles despite battling against the wind!  He pipped Ralph Dadswell by 2 miles, Ralph clocking up 240 miles.  Chris wants me to mention a big thanks to Colin Fury for assisting him during his 12 hour ride and also to Sally Roe for her dietary advice! 

 TRACK:

Our resident trackie was at Welwyn again on Friday night.  The ten mile race saw Stewart wheel sucking in fourth place with Ploughman Craven’s Tony Gibb leading the bunch.  Despite pulling his foot out of his cleat and coasting the last three hundred yards, dashing any hopes of a sprint finish but still completing the 10 miles in 22.30! He also came seventh in both the ten lap scratch and the pursuit, just missing out on some points!

 ROAD:

James Norris Tough Tour of Wales

This week it’s a report from HWCC’s James Norris on the Tour of Wales:

Arrived safely. Digs are good. Food is good. Team mates are ready to rock and roll. 61st from 84 today. Gave it full gas but not great. 1min 23secs down on the leader. Let’s see how the next 4 days go…

Late Update: central team finished 8th from 21 teams in the team TT, 49 secs from the winners. Good result.  Road race in the morning was a tough hilly 85k. I finished at the front of second group. Overall 12 mins down on G.C. Tom crouch is 5th overall 1min down and in the polka dot jersey tomorrow. But I did get a leg massage for 40 mins tonight. 

 Today’s stage in the Brecon beacons.105k with a 16% climb thrown in. Four laps with the finish at the top. I was dropped each time after the summit and managed to claw back to the bunch (with the other sprinters) each time. Then we had the welsh rain on the last lap. Everyone soaked, unable to see and no brakes! Our team leader Tom was strong enough to ride across to the break and get 2nd on the stage. I stayed with the bunch and finished strong, not losing any time for the team’s overall time. That was my toughest race this year. Tomorrow’s climb is 4 miles long! Bring it on!

Breaking news: My team leader is in the climber’s jersey tomorrow and in second place 19secs down. The team must look after him, he could do well…  I’m mid-field in 53rd 14mins down. It was our team TT result that meant Tom could stay in contention.

Stage 4 was tough but no surprise there. 80k and 4 times up a long climb. Over the stage I averaged 40kph+! Finished in 41st place 43 seconds behind the winner. Overall I’m now in 55th place.

12:14 down on the yellow jersey. But the team is in 5th place out of 21 teams. Tomorrow is longer and steeper! A real sort out – 105kms, just got to stay up at the front. Feet up and will get a massage in 40 mins, then dinner. Let’s have it…

Final result: Tom won ‘king of the mountains’ jersey and placed second overall @ 19secs. Due to the team not letting any breaks go away on the final stage. I placed 51st on G.C still beating over 30 riders. If I hadn’t lost 8 mins on the 1st day I would have been much higher. Central region team was 5th overall only 3mins down. 500k and over 10hours racing in 5 days. Time for a rest day.

  Thanks for all your support. James.

MTB:

MTB Team Neil Wragg & Paul Morrissey

A successful day for HWCC mountain bikers.  Both Neil Wragg and Paul Morrissey raced on private MOD land surrounded by soldiers and the sound of gunfire in the  ‘Are You Tough Enough?’ MTB Endurance Race organised by the Army Cycling Union.

The course was a fast, flowing technical loop around the private MOD land near the Deepcut Barracks. Yet another hot, dry day led to very dusty racing with all competitors finishing the race looking like they had just emerged from a coal pit!

Paul Morrissey stood on the podium to receive the bronze medal in the Men’s Vets 2 hour race whilst Neil Wragg achieved 4th place in the Open Men’s 4 hour category finishing the 48 miles in 4hrs 33minutes. 

SPORTIVES:

The Wantage Sunday Sportive saw Greg out again this time Kev Holloway. This was an 84 mile Sportive with 1200 metres of climbing.  In true Holloway style Kev blitzed around the course deploying his immense climbing abilities to finish in 1^st place in 4 hours 15 minutes.  This meant he had an average speed of 19.75 mph!!

Keep your reports coming in…..

 Tracy Jaquest
Press Secretary
tracyjaquest@yahoo.co.uk
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