NBRC Club 10 14/5/08 - Astwood

On the face of it, the riders were presented with an appalling set of conditions - the warm and sunny weather we had for the previous week or two had vanished, replaced by cold and grey conditions, with a very strong wind and the threat of rain.  To add to this, I had a real lack of enthusiasm and couldn't stop yawning as I lined up at the start.

Mind you, having Tony Parks a minute behind me was sure to spur me on.  I nearly got tipped off by the wind catching the front trispoke just after the start, but after that I had no trouble.  As expected the wind assisted me down the main road towards Chicheley, but more astonishingly, it seemed to help most of the way back to North Crawley.  That mystifies me!  Anyway, I was pretty pleased - not only did the rain hold off, but I limited my losses to Tony Park to 30 seconds, which was pretty good given his form lately, but I improved about 11 seconds from three weeks ago.  An encouraging event...next race is the Norlond '50' on the F1/50 on Sunday morning - this will be my first 50 since the 2006 season!

There's a report from Tony over at the NBRC web page.

Result of the NBRC Time Trial held on Wednesday 14th of May 2008
Course:- F5v/10 (Astwood)
								Pos. on
Pos	No	Name	Club	Time	Cat	Vets Std	.+ / -	Vets Std
1	23	Simon Cannings	TeamMK	22.47	S
2	16	Tony Parks	NBRC	23.15	V43	26.06	.+ 2 51	3
3	15	Rob Saunders	NBRC	23.45	V48	27.07	.+ 3.22	2
4	27	Ian Marshall	TeamMK	23.54	V40	25.30	.+ 1.36	7
5	13	Nick Pitt	Team Sanjan Design	24.03	S
6	24	Geoff Perry	TeamMK	24.25	V48	27.07	.+ 2.42	4
7	5	John Buchanan	NBRC	24.38	S
8	22	Lindz Barral	TeamMK	24.57	S
9	20	Glenn McMenamin	NBRC	25.12	S
10	21	Ian Markham	Team Sanjan Design	25.15	S
11	7	Ian Stokes	NBRC	25.16	V48	27.07	.+ 1.51	6
12	4	Hannah Barnes	Palmers Park Velo	25.18	Juv.
13	8	Martin Paul	NBRC	26.01	S
14	10	Graham McKay	TeamMK	26.07	V46	26.42	.+ 0.35	9
15	6	Chris Hartley	NBRC	27.06	V51	27.46	.+ 0.40	8
16	2	Andy Lam beth	NBRC	27.13	V50	27.33	.+ 0.20	10
17	26	Richard Stanton	NBRC	27.19	S
18	12	Gilbert Wheelwright	NBRC	27.37	V65	31.00	.+ 3.23	1
19	25	Ed Page	NBRC	29.05	S
20	11	Tony Brunton	NBRC	29.14	V43	26.06	.- 3.08	11
21	14	Chris Selley	NBRC	29.26	S
22	19	Gordon Batcock	NBRC	29.28	V67	31.30	.+ 2.02	5
23	9	Yvonne Gurney	TeamMK	30.26	S
24	1	Chris Parkes	NBRC	30.27	V48	27.07	.- 3.20	12
25	3	Alice Barnes	Palmers Park Velo	36.13	Juv.
	Two up Team Time Trial
	17	Dave Garrard	NBRC	28.48
	18	David Skeggs	unattached
Time Keepers:- Mary Hartley & Tony Farmborough NBRC.