WEEKEND RACE REPORTS 28 SEP 09

TIME TRIAL:

At the weekend, Wycombe’s Adam Topham rode in the Team Swift 25TT near Derby on the A25/11. Adam did a good ride with a time of 52:27 but isn’t sure where he placed. Matthew Bottrill won the event with a 48:59!

On Saturday out in Worcester on a rolling, Dave Johnson rode a 10 mile TT
course on the A38. He recorded a time of 22.05 placed 6th overall and was 2nd vet
on age standard +5.42.

Great Missenden on Sunday saw riders from HWCC and the Westerley compete in an Interclub 25 mile TT competition. Unfortunately I don’t have any actual results apart from that we won with Steve Golla our second claim member being the fastest rider with Dave Johnson hot on his heels in second place. Stewart King also did a PB on his road bike with 1.02.59.

SPORTIVE:

On Sunday, Andrew Mullis and Laurie Philpot rode the 150km Essex Road Club’s Autumn Leaves Sportive. This was Laurie’s first sportive. Although there were no medals on offer, Laurie set himself a time of 5 hours 30 in which to complete the hilly course and finished in precisely that time. Andrew finished in 5:14.

MTB:

On Sunday, Nick Calkin and Rick Fetherston took part in the Forest of Dean MTB enduro. The event was organised by the Royal Dean Forest CC and consisted of a tough 40 mile route through the forest. With technical climbs and descents, coupled together with miles of single-track this course tested each rider’s ability. Both of our guys were riding in the Expert Category which was the first group off, together with the Masters Category. The uphill start suited Rick and he managed to keep with the lead bunch for two of the four laps before easing off the pace a touch and dropping back a little. Nick had to fight hard to keep with a fast group, which slowly thinned out as riders dropped off. The final lap saw Nick riding on his own. They both finished in very respectable times with Rick in 10th place in 3:15 and Nick not far behind finishing just 27 minutes later placing 26th overall.

TRACK:

Monday night saw two of our boys back at Palmer Park track flying the HWCC flag! Stewart King and Kevin Holloway both raced in the Hare and Hound, Points race, Unknown distance, 500 metre sprint and 20km. Kevin Holloway placed a fantastic 3rd in the 20k gaining some well deserved points.

ROAD:

No news.

Tracy Jaquest

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