Finsbury Park CC '25' F1/25 10/8/08
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10 August 2008
F1/25 - perhaps the hardest I can recall, though at least the heavy rain we saw on Saturday did not make a reappearance.
The initial section, roughly southbound to the Sandy RAB, gave me a little taster for what was to come later on: after descending the sliproad to the A1, it was most definitely going to be tough on both southbound legs. Unfortunately the reverse didn't seem to the true, while it's true I was whizzing along with a tailwind after the Sandy RAB (I topped 34mph at times), the benefits of the wind seemed to be absent some of the time. Presumably this was due to the slightly serpentine nature of the course. Despite most peoples' opinion, I'm a bit of an optimist, and usually on days like this I reach the turn think that maybe, just maybe, the return leg won't be as hard as I expect. For today's event, I can safely say the return leg exceeded my direst prognostications. On some of the more exposed sections, I was battered down below 20mph, and I'm sure I saw 17mph at one point. (Jason Gurney claimed afterwards to have had to drop to the small ring at one point!). I was caught by #90 for 3 minutes shortly after the turn, and even he seemed to be struggling into the wind after that.
The helpful organisers has included a series of signs announcing 4 miles...3 miles...2 miles...1 mile as we approached the finish. On a day like this, it just made it clear that a sub-hour result was going to be out of the question for me at least.
Most of us were a few minutes back on expectations, and I finished with a disappointing 1:00:52. On the bright side, however, it did represent a pretty useful workout.
Click here for the results (as pdf).
No Rider Club Time Notes Imp +/- 1 James Heaton Rugby Racing CC 00:55:12 V +11:18 2 David Pollard In-Gear Quickvit RT 00:55:42 V +15:57 3 Paul Mill Team Edwards / Elitecycling 00:55:54 V +10:36 4 Jason Gurney Team Milton Keynes 00:56:12 5 Garry Brown Equipe Velo Ecosse 00:56:23 V +10:37 6 Tom Morris Cambridge Univercity CC 00:56:29 7 Antony Stapleton Chelmer CC 00:56:30 V +10:30 8 Stuart Tarry Team Sanjan Design 00:57:00
9 James Hawkins Cambridge Univercity CC 00:57:08 10 Ken Platts Cambridge CC 00:57:10 V +17:12 11 Peter Weir Maidenhead & District CC 00:57:18 12 Dave Kendall Finsbury Park CC 00:57:40 13 Justyn Cannon RAF CC 00:57:42 14 Jerry Cross Manchester Wheelers 00:57:47 V +10:44 15 Thomas Platts Cambridge CC 00:58:00 16 Ian Waddilove Fenland Clarion CC 00:58:02 V +13:09 17 Russell Beedham Lincoln Wheelers CC 00:58:03 17 Nicolas English Reading CC 00:58:03 19 Julian Smith Hemel Hempstead CC 00:58:20 V +7:40 20 Graham Waller Sheffrec CC 00:58:22 21
Neil Dowie API Metro 00:58:29 V +8:01 22 Hugh Vivian Finsbury Park CC 00:58:32 V +9:28 23 Steven Brown Hemel Hempstead CC 00:58:42 24 Sam Hayes Bedfordshire RCC 00:58:50 25 Mark Simmons Team Milton Keynes 00:59:40 26 Richard Webster Team Welwyn 00:59:55 V +6:05 27 Roger Queen Icknield RC 01:00:29 V +18:26 28 Andrew Murphy Haverhill Wheelers 01:00:33 29 Paul Verlander M.I. Racing 01:00:40 V +5:50 30 John Golder Chelmer CC 01:00:41 V +13:08 31 David Newman Westerly CC 01:00:43 32 Robert Saunders North Bucks RC 01:00:52 V +9:12 33 Jason Taylor
VC Lincoln 01:00:53 34 Ian Brazier Verulam CC 01:00:56 V +8:06 35 Avril Swan (Miss) Team Thule 01:01:34 LV +9:01 36 Kev Hardwick Team Just Racing 01:01:46 37 Tony May North Road CC 01:01:57 V +9:10 38 John Iszatt API Metro 01:01:59 V +8:36 39 Pete Hyland Kent Cycles RC 01:02:24 V +10:52 40 Danuta Tinn (Mrs) Maidenhead & District CC 01:02:29 LV +9:10 41 Ian Markham Team Sanjan Design 01:02:32 42 Andrew Robson Warwickshire RC 01:02:36 43 Paul Davis St Ives CC 01:02:44 V +4:16 44 Steve Freeman Chelmer CC 01:02:49 V +6:13 45 Michael Harborne Warwickshire RC 01:02:59 V +16:21 46 Malcolm Church Fenland Clarion CC 01:03:05 V +14:06 47 Claire Lee (Ms) Science in Sport.com 01:03:11 L 48 Carole Gandy (Mrs) Kent Cycles RC 01:03:12 LV +20:32 49 Clifford Grant High Wycombe CC 01:03:20 V +14:25 50 Dean Fuller Camel Valley CC 01:03:31 JR 51 Terry Beedham Lincoln Wheelers CC 01:03:31 V +15:59 52 Mark Steers Hainault RC 01:03:31 V +4:29 53 Alex Eason Chelmer CC 01:03:33 54 Clayton Knight Shaftesbury CC 01:03:38 V +5:35 55 Catherine Essex (Miss) Kings Lynn CC 01:03:44 L 56 Vince Dey Westerly CC 01:03:56 V +10:26 57 David Earl Hastings & St Leonards CC 01:04:05
V +1:55 58 Barry Page Hertfordshire Wheelers 01:04:06 V +6:29 59 Michael Gowan Festival RC 01:04:08 V +15:22 60 Michelle Ayres (Mrs) South Bucks RC 01:04:23 LV +9:59 61 Vic Butler Eastbourne Rovers CC 01:04:35 V +14:55 62 Lee Fuller Camel Valley CC 01:04:59 63 Alan Crane Team Sanjan Design 01:05:20 64 Justin Browne Glendene CC 01:05:31 0:00:54 65 Phil Smithhurst North Notts Olympic 01:05:41 V +10:56 66 Viv Slack (Miss) Manchester Wheelers 01:06:22 L 67 Andrew Ilsley A5 Rangers CC 01:06:26 68 Eric Angell Redbridge CC 01:06:37 V +9:26 69 Louise Schuller (Ms) Finsbury Park CC 01:06:43 LV
+7:06 70 Murray Kirton A5 Rangers CC 01:07:08 V +13:33 71 Lance Woodman Archer RC 01:07:25 V +3:42 72 Trevor Parrish A5 Rangers CC 01:07:45 V +11:10 73 Melanie Conibear (Miss) Hemel Hempstead CC 01:07:53 L 74 Arja Scarsbrook (Mrs) Team Echelon 01:08:38 LV +12:39 75 Tony Clarke Team Cambridge 01:08:50 V +6:39 76 Sue Clarke (Mrs) Team Cambridge 01:13:02 LV +2:27 77 Debbie Knott (Ms) Hemel Hempstead CC 01:17:00 L 78 Tim Somers FVS TRI 01:19:19 V -10:48 79 Gail Summerlin (Mrs) Leicester RC 01:32:40 LV -8:18 Birgit Scott (Mrs) Fenland Clarion CC DNF Andrew Bright Team Sanjan Design
DNF Nicolas Pitt Team Sanjan Design DNF Alan Kidd Team Cambridge DNF John Royle Fenland Clarion CC DNF Stephen Butterworth St Ives CC DNF Ben Friend Clarence Wheelers DNS APP Clifford Tremaine (Tric) Kettering CC DNS APP Tim Day Bournmouth Jubilee Wheelers DNS APP Rik Middleton Coventry CC DNS APP Helen Boatman (Miss) Team Milton Keynes DNS APP Claire Day (Mrs) Bournmouth Jubilee Wheelers DNS APP Corinna Francis (Miss) Chelmer CC DNS APP
Neill Coventry www.agiskoviner.com DNS APP Stuart Clarke Chelmer CC DNS APP Ed Rieu Sydenham Wheelers DNS APP Richard Simmonds London Dynamo DNS APP Mark Cook Planet X RT DNS APP Gavin Shaw Manx Viking Wheelers DNS APP Dave Devine Bath RC DNS Samantha Jenkins (Mrs) Bedfordshire RCC DNS Robert Frowen Banbury Star CC DNS Tony Parks North Bucks RC DNS Preston Anderson Wigmore CC DNS Andre Dyason PCA Ciclos Uno DNS Christopher Greig High Wycombe CC DNS Kevin Gill PCA Ciclos Uno DNS Colin Whitechurch Ely & District CC DNS Mark Burnham Coventry RC DNS Garth Evans Eagle RC DNS Richard Kelsey Maldon & District CC DNS Ian Short Hainault RC DNS Antony Bee Kent Cycles RC DNS Paul Godfrey Hainault RC DNS B Botfield Beacon RCC DNS Paul Callinan London Dynamo DNS
This was a particularly tough morning on the F1/25 - perhaps the hardest I can recall, though at least the heavy rain we saw on Saturday did not make a reappearance.