Darren Paice's
summary :-
For
those of you who do not know the story already, George
Kirkin hatched a
plan to enter a team in the Surrey League 4-up time trial about 9 weeks
ago. Foregoing the traditional Tuesday night and Saturday rides,
George, Mark
Veldmeijer, Matt
Dykiert and I
of set about training for
the event and learning how to ride as a unit. On hearing our plans, Mac
oined in to offer coaching assistance and with B spent many hours
pursuing us through the roads in and around Chertsey. The culmination
of all this effort was the race yesterday.
Supported by Mac, Claire Veldmeijer and Ben Lowe; we arrived at race HQ
to find that the course had been changed due to road works. So rather
than following the 35 miles Alfold Crossways/Kirdford course, the route
had been changed to 3 laps of the Kirdford road race course, reducing
the overall distance to 30 miles. 16 teams had entered and we were
third to start. Overall our race went to plan. We worked well as a team
and felt confident in our abilities. The weather turned against us with
torrential rain and with a face full of spray it was impossible to see
past the team mate in front but we still progressed as efficiently as
possible. We encountered tractors and horses on the course that caused
moments of delay but I expect every team had similar issues to deal
with. With just 3 miles to the finish, Matt suffered a spectacular
puncture whilst on a fast decent and he was lucky to stay upright.
George, Mark and I push on and with every possible effort reached and
the finish in a time of 1.13:45 (it is possible that I've got the
seconds wrong but it was in this region.)
Overall we managed to finish 11th. The winning time was just over the
hour at 1 hour 2 mins.
More than anything and on behalf of the team, I would like to thank Mac
and B for taking the time to coach us; to Ben for driving Mac for our
training session last Tuesday and around the course yesterday; to
Claire for supporting us and taking the photos (which I hope we can
soon share) and to everyone else who sent us good luck messages. Oh and
to Dave P for being our reserve rider.
I'm sure we'll be back again next year.
Darren
| Pos | TEAMS | Riders Name | Finish Time |
| 1 | London Dynamo | Gordon Kenneway (3) | 01:02:37 |
| Martin Williamson (2) | |||
| James Stratton (3) | |||
| Richard Mason (E) | |||
| 2 | Norwood Paragon CC "A" | Marcus Brueton (2) | 01:03:49 |
| James Stuart (2) | |||
| Angus MacAlister (1) | |||
| Simon Coles (3) | |||
| 3 | London Dynamo | Stuart Spies | 01:04:06 |
| Will Hayter | |||
| Guy Pendrill | |||
| Roy McGregor | |||
| 4 | Dulwich Paragon | Kevin Knox (1) | 01:05:02 |
| Andy Waterman (2) | |||
| Andy Hudson (2) | |||
| Julian Bray (2) | |||
| 5 | Kingston Wheelers | Phil Ember | 01:07:17 |
| Damien Breen | |||
| Luke Wallis | |||
| Harry Springhall | |||
| 6 | Brigton Mitre | Martyn Potter | 01:10:14 |
| Howard Wright | |||
| Craig Pitt | |||
| Nathan Dye | |||
| 7 | Norwood Paragon CC "C" | Nick Foulks (3) | 01:10:41 |
| Simon Richardson (3) | |||
| Herbie Griffith (3) | |||
| Stephen Roach (3) | |||
| 8 | WyndyMilla | Mark Ottaway (2V) | 01:10:50 |
| Ben Hallam (2) | |||
| Mathew Wakeford (3) | |||
| Cosmos Kedros (2) | |||
| 9 | Norwood Paragon CC "D" | Mike Cownley (3) | 01:12:05 |
| Duncan Murdoch (4V) | |||
| Austyn Tusler (3) | |||
| Justin Gott (4) | |||
| 10 | Brighton Excelsior | Nicholas Jepson (3) | 01:13:07 |
| James Stone (4V) | |||
| Chris Hodge (4) | |||
| Ben Miller (3) | |||
| 11 | Twickenham CC | George Kirkin (4) | 01:13:45 |
| Darren Paice (3V) | |||
| Mateusz Dykiert (4) | |||
| Mark Veldmeijer (4V) | |||
| 12 | Redhill CC | Rupert Burbidge (3) | 01:14:53 |
| Jonathan Bradbourne (4) | |||
| Ian Leeding (3V) | |||
| Charles Jordan (4) | |||
| 13 | Crawley Wheelers | Nigel Langridge (3V) | 01:16:10 |
| Rupert Robinson (3) | |||
| George Thomas (3) | |||
| David Jones (4) | |||
| 14 | Redhill CC "B" | Gavin Garett (3V) | 01:17:40 |
| Allan Hopkins (3V) | |||
| Gianluigi Moroni (3V) | |||
| James Trigg (4) | |||
| 15 | Norwood Paragon CC "B" | Paul McGuigan (3) | 01:22:53 |
| Daniel Sullivan (3) | |||
| Robert Enslin (2) | |||
| Jonathon Masters (3V) | |||
| 16 | Clarencourt CC | Wendy Casterton (W) | 01:25:18 |
| Caroline Harrison (W) | |||
| Emma Potter (W) | |||
| Geraldine Glowinski (W) |
Mark Spindler took a nice 12th place at Cutmill on Sunday
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