Well, a bit of a change from the weekend's racing - a lovely sunny and warm evening greeted us as we gathered for the NBRC's club event on the Astwood circuit. In actual fact it was the sort of evening that would have been rather pleasant to spend sitting in a pub garden sipping beer...but that was not to be as I lined up, yawning, to ride as #13 in this evening's event.We had a good turnout of 18 riders plus a tandem pair - we even had a visiting rider, Emma from Gillingham & District Wheelers, who'd enquired about the event via the NBRC website. Emma turned out on her mountain bike. Other notable riders included the "legendary" Karlo Porter. I say legendary because people where he and I work keep saying "You must know Karlo", and because his club hill climb record for the Bow Brickhill course will be 20 years old next year.
The light wind was enough to take the edge of my speed as I headed off towards Chicheley, but once round the corner the speed picked up substantially and before I knew it I was approaching North Crawley. I was riding without speed most of the time as the GPS kept dropping connection. By this time I was feeling a little "dry", but decided to hold off on drinking until the finish.
Once through Crawley, it was the usual scramble to get back up to speed, but I felt pretty much OK other than being a bit thirsty! The final push up the climb to the finish was really tough as I was determined to catch #12 (Darren) - unfortunately I failed!
Tony took the honours, despite suffering a broken spoke on his from Zipp. I was pretty pleased - according to Tony F.'s records, this is my fastest ride at Astwood since May 2006.
Pos. on
Pos
No
Name
Club
Time
Cat
Vets Std
.+ / -
Vets Std
1
10
Tony Parks
NBRC
22.42
V45
26.30
.+ 3.48
4
2
19
Aaron McCaffrey
AW Cycles.co.uk
22.49
V40
25.30
.+ 2.41
6
3
15
Will Hilton
Virgin Active
23.06
S
4
13
Robert Saunders
NBRC
23.21
V50
27.33
.+4.12
2
5
16
Chris Dunwoodie
TeamMK
23.37
S
6
6
Brian Primett
NBRC
24.01
V43
26.06
.+ 2.05
7
7
12
Darren Haydon
NBRC
24.20
S
8
7
John Buchanan
TeamMK
24.58
V40
25.30
.+ 0.32
11
9
8
Trevor Hook
TeamMK
25.15
V52
27.59
.+ 2.44
5
10
14
Karlo Porter- Price
Private
25.46
V46
26.42
.+ 0.56
9
11
4
Clive Faine
TeamMK
26.12
V63
30.30
.+ 4.18
1
12
18
Richard Pratt
Beds Roads CC
26.43
V51
27.46
.+ 1.03
8
13
17
Gilbert Wheelwright
NBRC
27.26
V67
31.30
.+ 4.04
3
14
1
Alan Lawson
NBRC
28.02
V42
25.54
.- 2.08
12
15
2
Eddy Page
NBRC
28.36
S
16
9
Nick Crook
NBRC
28.41
V59
29.34
.+ 0.53
10
17
5
Emma Bradley
Gillingham & Dist. Whls.
31.38
L
MTB
DNF
3
Chris White
NBRC
Off course
L
Tandem Event :-
11
Kevin Stokes
TeamMK
21.21
V47
Geoff Perry
TeamMK
V50
Time Keepers :- Steph Cousins & Tony Farmborough NBRC
Well, a bit of a change from the weekend's racing - a lovely sunny and warm evening greeted us as we gathered for the NBRC's club event on the Astwood circuit. In actual fact it was the sort of evening that would have been rather pleasant to spend sitting in a pub garden sipping beer...but that was not to be as I lined up, yawning, to ride as #13 in this evening's event.We had a good turnout of 18 riders plus a tandem pair - we even had a visiting rider, Emma from Gillingham & District Wheelers, who'd enquired about the event via the NBRC website. Emma turned out on her mountain bike. Other notable riders included the "legendary" Karlo Porter. I say legendary because people where he and I work keep saying "You must know Karlo", and because his club hill climb record for the Bow Brickhill course will be 20 years old next year.
The light wind was enough to take the edge of my speed as I headed off towards Chicheley, but once round the corner the speed picked up substantially and before I knew it I was approaching North Crawley. I was riding without speed most of the time as the GPS kept dropping connection. By this time I was feeling a little "dry", but decided to hold off on drinking until the finish.
Once through Crawley, it was the usual scramble to get back up to speed, but I felt pretty much OK other than being a bit thirsty! The final push up the climb to the finish was really tough as I was determined to catch #12 (Darren) - unfortunately I failed!
Tony took the honours, despite suffering a broken spoke on his from Zipp. I was pretty pleased - according to Tony F.'s records, this is my fastest ride at Astwood since May 2006.