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Dec 18th Somerset Road Club/Bicycle Chain mince pie ride.
Road Club members at the start of the traditional Mince Pie ride last Sunday. Riders followed lanes through the Somerset Levels towards Glastonbury and ended up at East Lyng for Punch and Pies.
Included in the picture are the club's youngest member, Henry Dennis (2) in his bike seat with his Mum Lisa, and the club's oldest riding member Pete Sandy, (75)
Rides start from North Petherton Community Hall every Sunday
at 9.30 am.
Details from Michael or Lisa on 01823 490499
In the picture (right to left) Sara Dunn; Lisa Parsons with
little Henry Dennis; Greg Venn; Roger Duncton; Pete Sandy; Roger Joseph; Barry
Searle; Colin McCallum (partly hidden;) Nick Morecroft.
Sept 24th and 25th Yeovil CC 10 mile time trial was held on Saturday 24th Sept on the U30 course at Podimore. SRC took the team award for the 3 fastest riders in this end of season event. The 'counters' were Jon Wynn, finishing 2nd in 20.37, Dean Robson 21.39 in 8th, and Mark Kurpyta 22.20 in 15th. Rick Johnston with 22.29 and Tim Reeves 22.34 also making the top twenty.
Port Talbot Wheelers 25 mile time trial was held on Sunday on the R25/3L course. Mark Kurpyta finished his season in fine style shattering his PB to record 55.35 in conditions that varied between torrential rain & bright sunshine. Jon Wynn produced another outstanding ride to produce a 51.59 and a top ten finish. Tom Cox recorded 57.13 and Kevin Sayles 58.00. This event saw the winner, Michael Hutchinson, storming around the course to produce a course, event and Welsh National record time of 47.03.
Sept 18th Mark Kurpyta was in top form for the Andover Wheelers' 10 mile time trial on the P613 course on Saturday afternoon. He recorded a personal best of 21 mins 46 seconds, beating his previous best by 24 seconds. Rick Johnston finished in 22.26 and Tom Cox in 23.07.
On Sunday, the course was more hilly, being changed from the S4 to the S3/10B course on the A38 near Ivybridge. Mark finished 10th out of 50 in a time of 23.53.
Sept 11th South Wales VTTA 25 TT held on the R25/7 Usk to Monmouth course. It was an overcast morning on a seldom used but fairly fast course. Results:
Tim Reeves 56.26
Tom Cox 58.21
Mark Kurpyta 58.59
Aug 28th - North Devon Wheelers 25 mile time trial held on the S1/25 yesterday. Mixed fortunes for the trio from SRC. This tough course again proved to be a real test on a warm morning with only a few riders going under the hour.Mark Kurpyta finished in 1.1.57, Martin Pearse in 1.2.39 but Tim Reeves did not finish - punctured after 14 miles.
Aug 21st - Antelope RT 10 mile TT held on the P415 Poole, Sunday. A very good morning with only light winds made for good conditions for the competitors. Tim Reeves & Mark Kurpyta representing Somerset Road Club were fairly early starters in a full field of riders. Tim recorded 21.19 which is an outright PB beating his previous best by 20 seconds. Mark finished in 22.14 and was back to form following a short lay-off.
Aug 17th - Weston Wheelers club 10 - full details - photos are on the photos page - all pictures taken by Paul Batts.
Aug 7th - Martin Pearse and Tim Reeves both recorded personal bests in the Mid Devon CC 25 mile time trial held today (Sunday) on quite a hard morning. - full results
Aug 1st - Update from Dave Bentley - won a crit down at Portreath last week in the rain and wind. Yesterday got 6th in the South West Divisional Road Championships incorporating the Spry Memorial Race. At moment got 80 points on my first cat license. Also finished 2nd overall to Greg in The Ilton series this year.
July 25th - Tor 2000 time trial won by Tim Reeves - details
July 14th - Divisional Championships at Ilton - details
June 19th
Johnny Porter competed in a race in Geneva, Switzerland, called the Classique Genevoise on the 19th June . The elite race was 80kms/4 laps and featured profesionals and generally useful riders such as Laurent Jalabert! Johnny competed in the category down from that over 60kms/3 laps. The temperature was up over 30 degrees and the course suited him with relatively short climbs. On the last lap, he broke away from the others and held on to a narrow 10 second margin for the last 3 miles to take his first win. Website, www.classiquegenevoise.ch.
Dean Robson continued his great recent form to finish a well deserved 2nd place in the John Andrews Memorial Road Race, near Langport on Sunday. The conditions were very hot and over half of the original 55 riders failed to finish due to dehydration. Dean missed the early breakaway but later managed to bridge the gap from the main bunch to join the leading group. Several other riders tried but failed to bridge the gap. Despite the effort needed to join the leading group, Dean still had the energy to finish 2nd, only 10 seconds behind the winner, E Deane from Bournemouth Jubilee Wheelers. On the previous Thursday, Dean also finished 2nd in the Mid Devon CC 25 mile time trial on the S4 course.
The Bristol South CC 10 mile time trial was held on the undulating ' U7' A38 Thornbury course. The conditions were very hot with a freshening crosswind. The SRC riders' times were - Tim Reeves at 22.29 and Rick Johnston at 23.17. Meanwhile Kevin Sayles competed in the hilly 16 mile time trial near St Budeaux, finishing in 39.13.
June 12th
Somerset Road Club/Bicycle Chain riders took the team prize in the Clevedon & District RC 50 mile time trial, held on the U21 course, based on two laps of a Cross to Bridgwater circuit. Jon Wynn won the event producing a fine ride on this course which was not helped by a crosswind throughout. He narrowly missed out on his own course record with a time of 1.52.29. Tim Reeves was 8th overall with 2.04.19 and Mark Kurpyta was 17th in 2.15.59, still suffering the effects of his recent Lanzarote Ironman.
Meanwhile Greg Sandy won the CS Dynamo 25 mile time trial on the S4 course near Buckfastleigh in a time of 54.41, beating Julius Jenings by 2 minutes. This was a fine effort after Greg's win the previous day in a road race at Colerne and the Ilton win 3 days earlier.
June 9th
Greg Sandy wins Global Heating Series Stage 1 at Ilton and Dave Bentley comes second - full details
June 4th/5th
Dean Robson
produced another great ride to win the bronze medal in the National Open Junior
25 mile time trial championship. His time of 56 mins 3 secs was another strong
performance on a very windy Saturday afternoon at Port Talbot in Wales. He
was disappointed that he missed the silver medal by under 30 seconds but put
this down to riding over-geared on the outward windy 12.5 miles. With his
lack of rides at this disipline and a few nerves on the day he could be forgiven
for this small error of judgement.
Summary of the 2005 season's time trial results >> riders' results. If you have any results to add, please email them.