Stoke Hammond '10' 25/5/11 - NBRC Championship '10'

Tonight's event was the North Bucks Road Club 10 mile championship, and was held on the Stoke Hammond bypass course.  This made awkward factors such as cattle on the course rather less likely, but does bring higher traffic levels.  I expected that starting the event at 7.15pm (rather than 7.00pm) would mean lower traffic levels, but in fact as I lined up at the start, I found there was quite a bit of traffic.  One or two riders (including me) got slightly stalled at the first roundabout as a consequence but really, once started, I didn't feel there was a problem. As has been the case with just about all the events I've ridden this year, we had windy conditions, making things tough most of the way round (with the exception of the return leg of the dual carriageway section - though actually that wasn't particularly brilliant).  I had expected the wind direction to make it easier for the return from the dual carriageway section, but that wasn't to be the case as it turned out, and it was the usual grovel alonf rough road surfaces. As I grovelled along the last half mile or so, I could see the timekeeper, but I started experiencing the strange time triallist's 'time collapse', where all of a sudden, the timer on the bike computer seemed to be running too fast!  I was giving it everything to try and get under 23 minutes... ...and as it turned out, I managed 22:59.  This was good enough for 2nd place equal.  Not a bad evening, all in all, and perhaps an indicator of returning form (which I felt was masked by the interruption by cattle during last week's event). My next event may be the Finsbury Park '50' on the F1/25 - I'm supposed to be off on a bike tour for a couple of weeks.  I say 'supposed' because the weather forecast for our chosen destination seems particularly diabolical.

Pos	Name	Club	Time	Age
1	TONY PARKS	NBRC	22.38	40
2=	GEOFF PERRY	TEAM MK	22.59	51
2=	ROB SAUNDERS	NBRC	22.59	51
4	DAVE GLOSSY	T. CORLEY	23.03	38
5	GEOFF BUNYAN	NBRC	23.12	50
6	LINDZ BARRAL	I TEAM CC	23.25	34
7	KEVIN STOKES	TEAM MK	24.06	48
8	JOHN BUCHANAN	TEAM MK	24.21	41
9	IAN STOKES	NBRC	25.14	51
10	BRIAN PRIMETT	TEAM MK	25.18	44
11	YVONNE GURNEY	BAINES/NBRC	25.40	38
12	ALAN LAWSON	NBRC	27.30	42
13	KATHERINE DILKS	TEAM MK	27.58	41
14	TONY BRUNTON	NBRC	28.13	46
15	SIMON KNATCHBULL	TEAM MK	29.09	43

And, as usual, here's the event telemetry! Click on 'More Details' for speed, elevation, heart rate etc.