North Bucks 10 mile Time Trial 28/5/08 - F5d/10

This event was the North Bucks Road Club's 10 mile championship, and was held in a week when the weather had varied between the dull, wind, damp and the frankly atrocious.  Following Sunday's grovel up and down the F1 in the NM&H '50', I had vague hopes for a reasonable evening, and in fact the weather during the day had not been too bad.  I rode down to the club room in pretty gloomy conditions, with no real enthusiasm for an evening '10'.

In the event, I was one of the later starters, and got a bit clobbered by the rain when it arrived.  I didn't have a clear runf through any of the roundabouts, other than the far turn, and I found the run up to the Stoke Hammond bypass a real struggle.  Coming back from the turn was pretty quick, and I especially noticed the benefits of the tailwind when on the false flat immediately before the finish.  I could tell from the off that I wasn't on a good ride this evening, and as it turned out I was pretty luck to take third place overall.  Still, we saw some excellent performances, notably Tim and Tony, who took first and second places with excellent times on a frankly rather crummy evening for a time trial, and on a not particularly quick course.  Gilbert pipped me again on vet's standard!

No more racing for a couple of weeks - I'm off cycle touring in the Hebrides, which will be a welcome change of pace!

Oh, and to cap it all, my rear tyre deflated while I was in the clubroom after the event.  Either someone's winding me up, or this was my 9th puncture of the 2008 season (none actually in events, however!).

Result of the NBRC Time Trial held on Wednesday 28th of May 2008

Course:- F5d/10 (Stoke Hammond By Pass)

NBRC 2008 10 miles Championship Event  


Pos

No

Name

Club

Time

Cat

Vets Std

.+ / -

Posn on Vets Std

1

15

Tim Carter

NBRC

21.37

V42

25.54

.+ 4.17

1

2

4

Tony Parks

NBRC

22.19

V43

26.06

.+ 3.47

2

3

18

Rob Saunders

NBRC

23.46

V48

27.07

.+ 3.21

4

4

12

Geoff Bunyan

Spirit Racing Team

23.50

V47

26.54

.+ 3.04

6

5

17

Geoff Perry

TeamMK

23.54

V48

27.07

.+ 3.13

5

6

2

John Buchanan

NBRC

24.05

S




7

16

Lindz Barral

TeamMK

25.01

S




8

3

Brian Primett

NBRC

25.31

V41

25.42

.+ 0.11

11

9

19

Darren Haydon

NBRC

25.32

S




10

6

Andy Lambeth

NBRC

26.46

V50

27.33

.+ 0.47

10

11

5

Chris Hartley

NBRC

26.51

V51

27.46

.+ 0.55

.= 8

12

1

Alan Lawson

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27.00

S




13

8

Gilbert Wheelwright

NBRC

27.22

V65

31.00

.+ 3.38

3

14

7

Tony Brunton

NBRC

27.33

V43

26.06

.- 1.27

12

15

13

Richard Miller

NBRC

28.07

V44

26.18

.- 1.49

13

16

11

Dave Garrard

NBRC

28.53

V60

29.48

.+ 0.55

.= 8

17

14

Brian Hills

NBRC

31.34

V72

32.46

.+ 1.12

7



9 & 10

Nick Pitt & Stuart Tarry

Team Sanjan Design

22.26


2 up TTT




Time Keepers :- Mary Hartley & Tony Farmborough NBRC