Evening Summer 10 mile Time Trials

Posted on 05/Jun/2014 by mickpaddington

In conjunction with a number of clubs, we are going to be running evening summer 10 mile time trials again this year, with a chance to win club medals.

For those of you who’ve never taken part or haven’t done a TT in a while, a 10 is a great place to start.
Plus if you have never done a TT before and feel a bit nervous or getting on the road. One of our races on July 30th is at the Hillingdon track , thanks to the Westerley.
Here are the dates, the hosting clubs and the course
Tuesday June 17th – Hillingdon Triathletes – Gt Missenden H10/4 7.15 PM
see http://www.hillingdontriathletes.co.uk/ClubTimeTrials2014
Wednesday July 2nd and 16th – Middlesex Road club – Maidenhead thicket course H10/2 7.45pm start
see http://www.middlesexrc.org.uk/  click on time trials
There is a good description of the course here http://www.maidenheadcc.org.uk/h10-2
Final race of the series
Wednesday July 30th – Westerley – Hillingdon track 7.15 pm
see http://www.westerley-cycling.org.uk/racing/time-trials/hillingdon-evening-time-trials
To enter simple turn up on the night, make sure you let me know that you have raced and your time. Although I intend to be at all of these whether racing or not.
You will need to pay the hosting club on the night to race, please be aware that fees vary. Plus £2 to Willesden CC, which I can collect at anytime from you, which goes towards cost of club medals.
Regards
Mick Paddington
Willesden CC TT Sec
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BC West Thames Round 8 at Hillingdon

Posted on 04/Jun/2014 by Tom

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Alex Pierce reports:

“There was a good showing from the Squadre Verde last night at Hillingdon. A well timed solo breakaway from Peter Dibben (Hargroves Cycles) wrapped up first place, with no one in the bunch interested in pulling him back so close to the finish. After a good lead out from Darryl Lusardi I managed to win the bunch sprint, taking second place and a tidy £8 profit. The ever improving Tony Lusardi came across the line in 14th, and Darryl finished 25th after his ‘Renshawesque‘ lead out.”

Here is a short video of the finish.

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MONTHLY MEETING – FRIDAY 6 JUNE 2014

Posted on 02/Jun/2014 by Wendy Mears

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CALLING CLUB MEMBERS TO ATTEND THE MONTHLY MEETING AT THE HILLINGDON TRACK CLUB HOUSE AT 8.00 P.M. ON FRIDAY 6 JUNE 2014

IT WOULD BE A PLEASURE TO SEE SOME DIFFERENT FACES AT THE MEETING

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Results from the Press Secretary

Posted on 02/Jun/2014 by Tom

Rich Cooper MTB

Here goes with this week’s results.

Down at Hillingdon on Tuesday evening in the BC West Thames 3/4 event Tony Lusardi was 11th, son Darryl 14th and in spite of a puncture Ryan Fineston finished 19th.

On Sunday they rode in the supporting race for the Women’ Grand Prix being held at Hillingdon finishing Darryl 11th, Ryan 28th and Tony 34th.

At Black Park Rich Cooper was awarded 2nd place in the 3 lap category, his highest finish ever, in the Mountain Bike event organised by the West Drayton Mountain Bike Club. (pictured)

Jayne Paine went to Hog Hill on Thursday to finish in 2nd place.

At Welwyn track on Friday night Roger Woodford was 2nd in the 10 lap sprint. In the Hare and hounds event the hounds caught the hare and Roger lead out the sprint to win convincinly. The 10 mile event was run at a very fast pace finishing in 21 minutes with both Roger and young nephew Connor finishing in the leading group.

All for now,
Gladys

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Jane’s Trike Exploits

Posted on 02/Jun/2014 by Miles Back

Over the May Bank holiday Jane Swain traveled up to Shropshire for the Tricycle association’s “Bruce Kingsford 50” on the Sunday. Conditions were cold wet and windy but she still managed to improve her time for the course by 8 minutes finishing in 2:52:38.
The following day she entered the classic “Anfield 100”, which again is on a tough rural course. Time was 5:58:26.

Mark Brooking – Trike Directeur Sportif

Jane on the 100 miles TT

Jane on the 100 miles TT

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More Willesden Riders in the Headlines

Posted on 30/May/2014 by Miles Back

A good report in this week’s Kilburn & Brent Times for the Willesden CC. Thanks to Gladys Purdy for sending them a great report.

K and B Times - 2014-05-29For a full PDF of the page click here – K and B Times – 2014-05-29

 

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Brent and Kilburn Times – 22 May 14 (2)

Posted on 28/May/2014 by Miles Back

K and B Times - Bradley

Making the same edition of the Brent & Kilburn Times as Ron Purdy is news of another local rider who has also done rather well! Will Ron have sculpture in Kilburn too?

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Brent and Kilburn Times – 22 May 14

Posted on 28/May/2014 by Miles Back

B and K Times - Purdy

From last week’s Brent & Kilburn Times, click on picture to enlarge

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May 25th WLC Time Trial

Posted on 27/May/2014 by mickpaddington

Willesden CC was the organising club for this event and a big thank you to all those members who turned out to help with Marshaling, timekeeping, pushing off and HQ kitchen duties. Whilst I have to fill in a few forms, organise members to help out and help out on any timing disputes, without Willesden members giving up their time early on a Sunday morning we could not run this event. A BIG THANK YOU, to all of you. I just hope you all managed to get some home made cake.

The event itself was a big success and I have received very positive feedback from the clubs and members who took part. 82 riders signed up, which is 20 more than last year and 70 riders completed the course on the day. We had one rider from Willesden, Nick McCollough who did a very respectable time of 1.00.06, only 6 seconds from the hour Nick !! The fastest time of the day went to Pete Lawrence from West Drayton MBC with a great time of 54.01.

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Last weeks Results

Posted on 26/May/2014 by Tony Woodford

On Monday 19th May Tom Zittel  rode at Reading with a fine 3rd place in the scratch race. He followed this with 2nd in the devil and after this did a good ride in the 20k event going all the way to finish 4th in the senior b’s.

On Tuesday our Senior Green team rode at Hillingdon with Darryl Lusardi 17th Ryan Finestone 23rd and Tony Lusardi 29th.

Friday 23rd at Welwyn Roger Woodford was just outsprinted and finished 2nd in the Devil. Connor Woodford attacked off the front to gain 3rd place in the senior b points race.

On Sunday Jayne Payne rode the omnium at Herne Hill and was 6th in the 500m with 40.3  Then 1st in the points 8k – doing 12 laps off the front, 4th in the sprint .Then  won the pursuit. So was lying 2nd overall……then missed out in the 8km scratch and got an overall of 5th.

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Latest Results from our Press Secretary

Posted on 26/May/2014 by Tom

Nick McCullough

Results flowing in from all areas this week.

In the Interclub Youth Team Time Trial organised by the Hillingdon Slipstreamers at Minet Park over a distance of 9.3 Km our team of Harvey Dash, Kye Lewis, Doune Henderson-Kirk and Connor Woodford were placed 3rd in the Boys Section. Hannah Keating was our only rider in the Girls section but finished 4th behind a team of 12 Hillingdon Slipstreamers.

Our track riders have been busy all week.
Tom Zittel was at Reading on Monday taking 2nd place in the Devil, 3rd in the Scratch and finishing for the 1st time in the 20Km event, wining 4th place in the B group.
Jayne Paine rode the Herne Hill Women’s Omnium gaining lst in the 8Kms points race after riding on the front for 12laps. She also won the 4 lap pursuit, was placed 4th in the Sprints and 6th in the 500m.
Connor Woodford also rode the track at Welwyn on Friday and took 3rd in the Junior 10lap points event.

Our time trialists entered in the Farnham R.C. 10 had to compete with the traffic on Saturday (Thank goodness QPR won!) Ed Packard arrived with no time to pump his tyres up hard only 3 minutes before he was due to start. Pete Cookson had the same problem with traffic, taking over 2hours to get to Farnham. Their times considering that and the weather conditions were 23.15 and 23.36. Third team member Brian Moon failed to make it to the start.
Ed stayed overnight at Barton Stacey to ride the Hounslow and District Wheelers 100 miles event and was disappointed to record 4.23.17.
It was the club’s turn to organised the West London Combine 25 on the Amersham Road and our only club member to ride was Nick McCullough, who from a field of 82 entries, finished in 8th place with a time of 1.00.06. (photo above)

Finally, several club members were invited to the celebration of Ruby and Nick Tidmarsh’s lives which took place at the Tithe Farm Social Club in South Harrow to enjoy a Hog Roast and to remember their achievements. (Nick died in March, aged 103, his wife died over 20 years earlier, but both of them donated their bodies to medical science so no funerals took place) Their sons Alec and Brian decided that a get together of family and friends would be a fitting tribute to the way they had enjoyed life both in the Willesden Cycling Club and the Tithe Farm Drama group. Nick’s death was reported on the back page of the Sports section in March.

Thats all for now,
Gladys

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Video: Audax Alpine Classic

Posted on 23/May/2014 by Tom

Its Friday! This video should help get you in the mood to get out on your bike or maybe even the Ditchling Devil on the 8th!

Audax Australia have produced this stunning tilt-shift time lapse video of the Alpine Classic; a 250k ride that attracted 2,200 participants.

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Event report: Curry night, 16 May 2014

Posted on 21/May/2014 by Tom

Curry night, May 2014: Members at the tableHi folks

A great time was had by all at the recent Curry Night!

In total we had 23 people book, and 19 came along on the evening and enjoyed the brilliant cuisine at Brilliant Restaurant in Southall, which came highly recommended by a number of members.

The evening was attended by members of varied ages and disciplines, from youth riders to veterans. It was especially good to witness club mates describing their recent adventures and accomplishments in their particular disciplines – from audax riders to trackies, road racers to time triallists; I think many attendees learned something new about a different aspect of club life.

A special (surprise!) presentation was also included in the evening. Club Captain John Wheatley presented Stuart ‘Hippy’ Birnie with a medal, a trophy and his own custom-made National Champion jersey for his achievements in the previous season, which you can see him modelling below. Congratulations to Hippy.

A very big thank you to everyone who came along and made it a convivial evening!

🙂

CZ x

Curry night, May 2014: Stuart Birnie presented with trophy by John Wheatley photo 2 Curry night, May 2014: Members having fun

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Next Pub Run: Tues 3 June

Posted on 20/May/2014 by Char Lee

Pub run, May 2014 - photo 4Hi folks

We had a great turnout with 15 members coming along for the second pub run on Weds 7 May.  More photos are included below.

The next one will be on Tues 3 June in Ickenham at the Coach and Horses pub. (The night is going to change to Tuesdays until further notice as I can’t make it on Wednesdays any more!)

You are warmly invited to come along and have a chat and a drink with your fellow club mates. Food is served until 10pm.

Hope to see you there…

:)

CZ x

Event: Pub Run
Date: Tues 3 June 2014, and every first Tuesday of the month thereafter
Time: 8:00pm onwards
Venue: Coach and Horses Pub, 1 High Road, Ickenham, Middlesex UB10 8LJ
Enquiries: social@willesdencyclingclub.org.uk

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Film Screening: Pantani the Accidental Death of a Cyclist

Posted on 20/May/2014 by Tom

Pantani: The Accidental Death of a Cyclist

One of the most popular social outings on the Social Sec’s survey was a cycling film screening. John Davies has come through for us!

John spoke to The Lexi Cinema in Willesden about showing the new Marco Pantani documentary by James Erskine. We are very pleased to say The Lexi are now planning to publicly screen it on Sunday 8th June at 3:30pm.
Adult tickets are £11 while students and seniors will pay £7.50.

The Lexi is a superb little cinema of about 50 seats based in Kensal Rise, which is right in the heart of Willesden. The cinema is run as a charity donating 100% of its profits to charity and is staffed by local volunteers. It also has a very well stocked bar too, so it couldn’t be better.

Nearest tube station is Kensal Green (Bakerloo and Overground lines) and Kensal Rise (Overground line). Free parking available in nearby streets

You can book tickets here, its worth booking early as all other London screenings sold out very quickly.

Pantani: The Accidental Death of a Cyclist

Event: Film Screening
Date: Sunday 8th of June
Time: 3:30pm
Venue: The Lexi Cinema
194b Chamberlayne Road
Kensal Rise
Willesden
London NW10 3JU

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Results from our Press Secretary

Posted on 19/May/2014 by Tom
10253756_857093630972361_6078422783544082693_nRoger and Connor Woodford at Welwyn, Photo courtesy of Dawn Fry

Further to last week’s report. Willesden’s other entry in last week’s triathalon was 14 years old Josh Copley who finished 4th in his age group.

Jane Swain riding in the North Norfolk 100 , trying out a back up trike for the attempt she is to make on the End to End record later this summer, improved on her previous best at the distance by 27minutes 34 seconds.

Ed Packard finished 9th in the Ipwich 10 recording 25.01 gaining valuable points in the Spocco league.

On the track at Welwyn Roger Woodford won the 10 lap scratch race with a long sprint on the last lap. His young nephew, Connor took 3rd place in the Devil from a large field of senior riders.

At Hillingdon on Tuesday in the 4th cats event Darryl Lusardi was 7th, his Dad Tony 17th and Ryan Finestone 19th. Alex Pierce has now gained enough points to be promoted to a 3rd cat rider.

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Interclub Youth Team Time Trial

Posted on 19/May/2014 by Miles Back

The Willesden CC U18 team put in an excellent performance at the Interclub Youth Team Time Trial competition organised by the Hillingdon Slipstreamers. Held under cloudless skies at Minet Park yesterday afternoon the event attracted a large field of young riders from the Welwyn Wheelers, the Twickenham CC, the Hillingdon Slipstreamers, the Kingston Juniors and the Willesden CC.

Our U18 boys team podiumed in third place with an average time of  28m 47.97s for the 9.3 mile course. Our Willesden girls team lost out by just a fraction over 59 seconds to finish in forth place behind a mighty team of 12 riders from the Hillingdon Slipsteamers.

Well done to all our young riders who impressed us all with their effort and results.

The times of each rider are as follows –

Race 1.
Harvey Dash – 8th place – 30:36.7
Kye Lewis – 13th place – 31:28.5
Doune Henderson-Kirk – 20th place – 35:22.3

Race 3
Connor Woodford – 8th place – 24:18.7
Hannah Keating – 15th place 28:34.6

The team results are as as follows –

 

Position
 Boys
 Girls
1
 Welwyn Wheelers 25:22.83 (9 riders) Welwyn Wheelers 26:51.75 (6 riders)
2
 Hillingdon Slipstreamers 27:29.45 (22 riders) Twickenham CC 30:10.40 (1 rider)
3
 Willesden CC 28:47.97 (3 riders) Hillingdon Slipstreamers 30:58.82 (12 riders)
4
 Twickenham CC 29:40.45 (8 riders) Willesden CC 31:58.45 (1 rider)
5
 Kingston Juniors 30:10.97 (6 riders) Kingston Juniors 33:50.8 (1 rider)
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At the circuit, a mini film

Posted on 18/May/2014 by John Wheatley

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Purdy’s Latest Event

Posted on 15/May/2014 by Gladys Purdy

8xxtriRon trixx2Ron trixx 2014 3Ron took part in the Hatch End Triathalon for the fourth time. Once again winning his age group as he was the only entry in the 80-84 group. Nearest age group winner was a 67 year old. he swam 17 lengths of the pool, rode 17kms on the bike and ran 3 Km. He managed it all on 2 slices of toast covered in coconut oil. Discovered later than one of our Juniors, Josh Copley, also took part taking 2nd place in his event at shorter distances.

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Google Streetview

Posted on 15/May/2014 by Miles Back

Julien Holden spotted this on Google Streetview.

Who is that rider (it’s not me)? Results to Press Secretary ASAP.

Google Street view

 

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