Overall Winner was Sandy
King, who completed the course in 58:26, whilst Natalie
Creswick was Fastest Lady by some 5 and a half
minutes!Prior to this weekend's action, TCC were sitting =35th Nationally with 252 points, and had breathing space to the tune of 32 points at the top of the Central Region rankings!
Sunday's action came in the form of the annual Interclub '25, held on the HCC001, near Fifield. The history of this competition has been captured here, but in essence, this is a contest between TCC, Hounslow, Weybridge, & Westerley, with the 3 fastest times based on handicap counting to secure victory.
A great turn-out saw 53 starters on a bright, but cool day with a mildly irritating easterly breeze.
Overall Winner was Sandy
King, who completed the course in 58:26, whilst Natalie
Creswick was Fastest Lady by some 5 and a half
minutes!
Outstanding performances
from Natalie
Creswick (43:24), Tom
Sutherland (49:03), & Nigel
Atkins (49:08) aggregating 2:21:35, returned the
trophy to us from Hounslow, who had been looking after it for us for
the past year!
Actual Times :-
1 Sandy
King 00:58:26
2 Mark Silver 01:00:22 (Hounslow)
3 M Woolsey 01:00:56 (Westerley)
4 Tom
Sutherland 01:01:03
5 Nigel
Atkins 01:01:08
6 Paul Innes 01:01:47 (Hounslow)
7 Stewart
Ward 01:02:21
8 Dave
Peck 01:02:42
8 Vaughan
Moseley 01:02:42
10 Brent Skinner 01:02:43 (Hounslow)
11 Natalie
Creswick (L) 01:03:24
16 Damon
Yates 01:05:59
17 Mark
Spindler 01:06:13
19 Stuart
King 01:07:07
22 Darren
Paice 01:08:48
23 Jason
Harris 01:08:52
25 Johnathon
Brent 01:09:17
26 Mateusz
Dykiert 01:10:21
27 Briand
Beausoleil 01:10:50
28 Pete
Georgeallou 01:10:51
32 Ann
Marshall (L) 01:11:32
36 Graham
MacNamee 01:13:33
37 Warren
Watson 01:13:56
40 Zoe
Yendell (L) 01:16:25
41 Jo
Foster (L) 01:17:28
42 Kevin
Butchart 01:17:45
44 Lisa
West (L) 01:20:36
45 Denise
Quinlan (L) 01:20:53
46 Des
Bennett 01:21:12
47 Solveig
Findley (L) 01:22:45
48 Colin
Webb 01:23:05
49 Liz
Norman (L) 01:23:10
50 Rob
Spindler 01:25:36
Steve
Home DNF (Punc)
Full Results Here
1 Michael HUTCHINSON In Gear Quickvit
R.T. 00:18:59
S
2 Peter BALLS West Suffolk Wheelers
00:20:16
V
3 Richard O'ROURKE Flitch Crono
00:20:23 S
32 Declan
Higgins Twickenham CC
Full Report here.
1 Michael HUTCHINSON In Gear Quickvit
R.T. 00:18:59
S
2 Peter BALLS West Suffolk Wheelers
00:20:16
V
3 Richard O'ROURKE Flitch Crono
00:20:23 S
70 Ben
NICHOLSON Twickenham CC
00:24:00 V
Results to follow
Results to follow
A report from Darren Paice:-
In addition to my usual toils with the London traffic I had
to contend a strong headwind on my journey to Hillingdon. I came across
another TCC rider Vince at Ealing Common and
unbeknown to him I sat
on his wheel and sheltered from the wind for a while. I arrived at the
start surprising rested. We also met up with another TCC rider
Andy
Brown who was in the E/1/2/3 race.
To the race – As always our number one objective was to stay out of
trouble. I am pleased to say that the quality of riding was excellent
and overall the bunch was well behaved. There
were a number of
initial attacks made on the opening laps but the windy conditions made
it near impossible for a single rider to escape. After 15 minutes
however two riders made a break and the main group did not
react.
Other individual riders then crossed the break and soon there were two
groups with an organised bunch of about eight riders out front. The
pace was quite intense during this phase as the following peleton set
about closing the gap. Vince and I got involved and did some work at
the front of the pack. May be the lead group sensed the gap was closing
or it all became too tactical as suddenly the gap was closed and we
were all back together.
The closing stages – The 3 laps to go board always sparks a reaction
and on this occasion three riders set about another attack. The main
group again did not react although a gap of about 20 metres
was
maintained. I was sitting in fifth place in the main group as
we headed down the back straight on the penultimate lap. The gap to the
break was now 50 metres and I knew that we had to chase them down as
otherwise it would be too late. I moved to the front of the group and
lifted the pace trying to balance the need to close the gap
and not
blowing up before the finish. Finally I got some assistance and a group
of riders which included Vince took up the chase.
I was really
hurting now the pace was relentless and I seemed to be going
backwards. The race now had three groups the original break
of three
Vince’s group of five and the final group in which I was desperately
trying to hold on to. Down the back straight for the final time
I
found some shelter from the wind and took a breather. As we rounded the
final bend I drifted to the outside of the track and followed a wheel.
I accelerated past the rider as we went through the “S” bends and
noticed that other riders were slowing. Unsure as to whether this was
because they we out of the top ten or just tired I decided to go for
the sprint anyway for training purposes if nothing else. I
spotted
Vince to my left as I crossed the line.
The Results – The breakaway group were within a whisker of being caught
but managed to hang on to the top three spots. Somehow I had bridged
the gap to Vince’s group and was placed 8th. Vince had done just a bit
too much work in the final lap took 11th or 12th. We didn’t see Andy
Brown in the E/1/2/3 race but we assumed that he had finished in the
main bunch.
U16's - Rory Atkins 6th
4ths
- Darren Paice 8th
Vince Leon 11th
E/1/2/3 - Andy Brown (result to follow)
