Stony '10' 22/4/15

I usually find the events on the club's Stony Stratford course not to my liking - the course runs out via Beachampton and Nash to turn at a roundabout on the A421. The outward leg therefore has a fair bit of climbing and usually acquires a new set of potholes over each winter. In the event of roadworks or other interference in the course, we revert to a back-up course. In the backup course, riders bear left soon after the start and proceed via Calverton and Whaddon, to turn at the A421 (at a roundabout just along the road from the normal turn). The course retraces and finishes short of a give way junction. This is closer to 10 miles than the usual Stony course. The replacement course is a bit more of a challenge in some ways, overall the road surface is atrocious, very rough and bumpy (though fortunately the road up towards Whaddon has been substantially repaired), and it has several sharp corners, spiced with numerous cars parked on the road. On the evening, I just couldn't get a sense of rhythm and found myself rattling and clattering around the course. I didn't have any trouble, as one often does on this course, with people manoeuvring cars in and out of driveways. But I found myself riding very cautiously round the bends and past the parked cars. On the return leg, I completely misjudged the short but very steep climb between Whaddon and Calverton, which really knocked the stuffing out of me! Altogether a rather unsatisfactory ride. Jez Honor showed the rest of us how to do it! Results

Pos	No	Name	Club	Time	Cat	Vets Std	.+ / -	Vets Std
1	11	Jez Honor	Equipe Velo	25.06	V44	27.54	.+ 2.48	1
2	7	Trevor Hook	TeamMK	27.30	V57	29.00	.+ 1.30	2
3	12	Robert Saunders	NBRC	27.35	V55	28.48	.+ 1.13	3
4	4	Ant Smith	TeamMK	28.11	Sen.
5	5	Mark Simmons	Open University CC	28.52	V42	27.44	.- 1.08	8
6	3	Mick Atkinson	TeamMK	28.53	V46	28.04	.- 0.49	4
7	13	David Price	NBRC	29.00	V47	28.08	.- 0.52	6
8	10	Ant Newland	Bossard Wheelers	29.09	V49	28.18	.- 0.51	5
9	2	Karlo Porter-Price	Open University CC	29.48	V51	28.27	.- 1.21	9
10	8	Paul Woodham	Bossard Wheelers	30.47	V63	29.41	.- 1.06	7
11	6	Finn Hanson	TeamMK	30.50	V51	28.27	.- 2.23	10
12	9	Trevor Watson	Bossard Wheelers	32.18	V56	28.54	.- 3.24	12
13	14	Wayne Thomas	NBRC	32.58	V64	29.49	.- 3.09	11
14	15	Luke Daniells	NBRC	33.23	V42	27.44	.- 5.39	13
15	1	John Pick	Chronos RT	41.34	V70	30.49	.- 10.45	14

Timekeepers - Tony Farmborough and Bryan Scarborough.