Stony '11.4' 20th May 2009 (League Round 4)

I had originally expected to be unable to ride this event, due to work commitments.  After several days of really quite bad weather, I was quite pleased to have been able to ride the event, as the wind dropped (and I am sure it was considerably more gentle that the forecast 14mph!), and the sun came out.

Judging from the readout on my HRM, the ride out to Stony Stratford was  quite an effective warmup, especially when keeping the speed up negotiating the roundabout over the A5!

As usual, I found the outward leg rather hard.  Indeed, at one point in the climb up to Nash, I was down to 12 mph, a most definitely unintended consequence of  trying out using lower gears than usual on the climb.  To be honest, I suspect that carrying an extra 4kg bodyweight can't be helping me on this course!  Upon rounding the turn roundabout, I was rather dismayed to see Tony Parks getting rather close - this seemed to spur both of us on - it took until after Beachampton to catch me, and once he did catch me, he only took another 4 secs out of me.

I think this might have been my best ride thus far on this course in 2009, but on the other hand, I had thought I'd do a bit better than this...perhaps this is the fate of being at least a little competitive! 

In addition to the potholes that opened up over the winter, the course had a generous addition of mud (presumably deposited by a tractor), which made one corner in particular a little awkward! 

Results

Pos

No

Rider

Club

Time

Cat

Vets Std

Plus/Minus

Vets Pos

1

14

Tony Parks

NBRC

26.47

V44

30.15

3.28

4

2

21

Chris Dunwoodie

TeamMK

26.55

S




3

19

Lindz Barral

i-team cc

27.12

S




4

23

Geoff Perry

TeamMK

27.49

V49

31.26

3.37

2

5

13

Robert Saunders

NBRC

27.51

V49

31.26

3.35

3

6

17

Adrian Cox

TeamMK

27.58

V48

31.11

3.13

6

7

24

Phil Jenkins

private

28.05

V40

29.20

1.15

8

8

20

Leigh Smith

Alpha RC

28.18

S




9

18

John Buchanan

NBRC

28.56

S




10

11

Kevin Stokes

TeamMK

29.10

V46

30.43

1.33

7

11

12

Julian Lane

Just Racing

29.30

V42

29.47

0.17

9

12

1

Will Hilton

Team Synergie

29.52

S




13

3

Brian Primett

NBRC

30.39

V42

29.47

-0.52

11

14

22

Phil Sinnett

NBRC

30.46

S




15

9

Gilbert Wheelwright

NBRC

31.43

V66

35.56

4.13

1

16

10

Chris Selley

NBRC

31.48

V40

29.20

-2.28

14

17

15

Nigel Skinner

private

31.49

V44

30.15

-1.34

12

18

4

Chris Hartley

NBRC

31.59

V52

32.11

0.12

10

19

2

David Skeggs

NBRC

32.49

V40

29.20

-3.29

15

20

6

Julian Hall

Beds Road Club

32.58

V47

30.57

-2.01

13

21

8

Gordon Batcock

NBRC

33.04

V68

36.30

3.26

5

22

16

Katherine Dilks

NBRC

33.56

L




23

7

Tony Brunton

NBRC

34.06

V44

30.15

-3.51

16











5

Ian Stokes

NBRC

DNS

V49