Willesden Cycling Club

Saturday 2 October

Youth races
4th Cat Men’s race
Women’s race for Cat E/1/2/3 riders

Programme

Race 1: 13.15 start for 30mins for U8, U10 and U14

U8 placings for each age category count towards club prize
U10 placings for each age category count towards club prize

Overall:
£220 cash awards shared between the top three clubs
as earned by their riders in each of the three youngest age categories – split as follows
first club: £150
second club: £40
third club: £30

Points awarded:
According to finishing position in each age group and also based on number of riders in each age group.

U14
Winner under-14 boy £20
Winner under-14 girl £20

Race 2: 14.00 start for 30mins – U12 and U16

U12
Placings for each individual rider also count towards the club prizes as the £220 on offer is shared between riders in the three youngest age groups – U8, U10 and U12

U16
Winner under-16 boy £20
Winner under-16 girl £20

Race 3: 14:45p Men’s 4th Cat race – 1 hour + 5laps

Race 4: 14:46 Women’s E/1st/2nd/3rd Cat race – 1hour + 4 laps

Entries

Youth race:
Entries on the line £3
Judge and commissaire for youth races:
Steve May – stevemay@dircon.co.uk

Adult races:
Advance entries £13
Entries on the line £16

Adult races: entry fee includes a £1 supplement to be paid out to the race winner.

Cheques made out to:
John Leitch
7 The Avenue,
Brockham,
Betchworth,
Surrey,
RH3 7EN

email: johnleitch65@googlemail.com
mob: 07963 377 249
home: 01737 84 36 01

FAQs

How will the points system work?

Well, if there are 20 riders are in your age category, for example, then the winner gets 20 points while the second-placed finisher gets 19 points and so on all the way down to the one point earned by the rider finishing in 20th place. That means everyone counts. You all pick up points for your club.

If there were 15 riders in the next age category, say, then the points on offer would range from 15 down to 1.

So the more riders we come with, the better our chances?

Exactly.

In all, there will be prize money of £300 for us, but how is it split out?

The £300 is split between £220 for the age groups Under 12, Under 10 and Under 8 leaving the £80 balance for the riders competing in the Under 16 and Under 14 age groups.

OK. How will the £220 be split?

The top three clubs will share in the total:

first: £150
second: £40
third: £30

What is there for the two older categories: U14 and U16?

Last year it was chaotic running five age groups at once, so splitting everyone between two races should make life easier for Steve May and his team of eagle-eyed judges who have to do the totting up.

In the three youngest categories, riders tend to split and finish individually, so that’s not bad to judge.

However the U14 and U16 get tactical and often finish in a packs and that’s why Steve has asked for them to be allocated to different races, so we have U14 in the first race and U16 in the following event…please note they are not both in the second race!!

What do they stand to collect?

A total of £80, split between four individual winners:

winner under-14 boy £20
winner under-14 girl £20
winner under-16 boy £20
winner under-16 girl £20

Ray Kelly
26 Aug 2010

Mel, Ian and Peter have now reached the finish line in Nerviano. Well done guys – a really gritty effort.

Mel and Peter arrived back last night between 9pm and 10pm. Ian was enjoying it so much he decided to spend a little longer on the road finishing at 01:22 am this morning.

Their times were –

119hr:44mn Mel Kirkland
120hr.02mn Peter Turnbull
123hr:51mn Ian Oliver

I believe some if not all of our riders will be coming back home today. I look forward to hearing their adventures as well as posting some photos.

You’ll be pleased to know that is the last of my daily updates on the Mille Miglia. It has been a great event to follow and I hope you have enjoyed it too.

John D.
22 Aug 2009

Martin Lucas is the first British rider to finish the 2010 Mille Miglia. Well done Martin – an excellent ride.

Martin nipped around the 1625km course in 89hr:15mm arriving back in Nerviano (near Milan) at 2:16 PM (CET) yesterday afternoon. He was the 15th finisher out of an entry 269 riders.

I am waiting for the organisers to upload more results to the web site. So as of this morning I do not have an update for Ian Oliver, Peter Turnbull and Mel Kirkland.

JRD
21 Aug 2010

This morning’s news is that Martin Lucas is the first British rider to arrive at the Casella Ligura control at 1436kms!! At this rate Martin should be back in his hotel bed this evening.

Ian Oliver, Peter Turnbull and Mel Kirkland are making steady progress. They checked through the the 995km control, near Sienna, yesterday evening.

Still no sign of Ray Kelly or Akiko Kawachi – it is looking as though they have packed somewhere on the outward leg down to near Rome.

At 21.49 Italian time last night the first rider, Silvano Riccò, was first to arrive back at the start. He rode the 1625km course in 73 hours. Chapeau, or should that be Capello to Silvano for an excellent ride.

John Davies
20 Aug 2010

So far Martin Lucas is the only Willesden rider to have passed through the Bolsena Control at 776 kms. The section down to here from Florence is a tough one with plenty of climbing. Martin should now be heading back to the Sienna control at 995km.

The Bolsena control may have now closed as we are now out of the time limit, so far only 180 out of 269 starters have officially passed through this control. However our riders may be pressing on towards the Sienna Control at 995km in the hope they can catch up some time.

Julian Holden has “packed” on the event and the following is a posting he made on the YACF Audax forum ….

Suppose I’d better tell my tale of shame before the heroic completion ride reports get in.

Fast start at about 21:30 but the pace was too high for me and I fell off the back of my group at about 77km. Got to the first control (102km) at 12:55. Lit out again and was caught up by a Toothgrinder/Judith Swallow groupetto, who I presume must have waited to finish dinner etc, before starting and rode with them for about 10k before dropping off the back again. I was clocking around 26km/h solo and was very happy with that.

I was one of the last to the second control (186km) at about 4:55. Grabbed a coffee from the bar and headed off. Saw 200k at about 6:05 and dawn soon after. Spent rather too long riding into the rising sun, hoping passing trucks would see me, and made the third control and first food stop (268km) at 9:30. Stayed there until 10:10 to recover.

The wheels rather fell off my enterprise in this stage. I was Ok for the first 60km but then started to feel very tired. This stage is (with apologies to our Italian hosts) dull. It is dead flat with straight roads. It’s sunny, fortunately I don’t think it was more than about 26C yesterday as shade is rare. The area is nearly all intensively cultivated so there’s not many places to stop to grab a sleep in peace.Every 30 seconds a huge truck filled with fruit blasts past you enroute to Europe’s supermarkets. It was getting close to 17:00 before I arrived in Faenza (388km).

I felt like death and the controllers suggested I got a quick sleep. I had a lie down for 30 mins but couldn’t sleep so headed off again although I knew that with the way I was going and the speed that I climb I was unlikely to make make Dicomano much before the cutoff so would not have much time for sleep there before the next climb. After about 500m down the road it was clear that I was having trouble focussing and that proceeding any further without sleep was looking for trouble so got off the bike.

So the moral of this story is… Sometimes riding on the flat is harder than riding hills. Seems that I’ve spent all Spring playing around with gearing and practising riding hills on hot days when I should have been on the fens working on my boredom threshold.

Jules – the man who dropped out of the MI without seeing a mountain.

Meanwhile the megafast groupetto of five Italian riders has now reduced to three. They continue to rip up the route and passed through the 995km control averaging just under 24 kph (including all time off the bike).

John Davies
19 September 2010

All of the Willesden riders with the exception of Julian Holden have now passed through the Dicomano control (near Florence) at 473km. Martin Lucas was in the top twenty riders and 3rd UK rider to reach this point yesterday.

A group of five Italian riders are having a storming ride having almost reached the half way point of the ride in just under 31 hours (av. 25kph including stops).

Our riders reached the first control in the following times –

HH:MM
15:08 Martin Lucas
23:18 Mel Kirkland
23:09 Peter Turnbull
23:30 Ian Oliver
25:21 Ray Kelly
25:22 Akiko Kawachi
TBA Julian Holden

The next section to Bolsena at 776kms (100km North of Rome) is a very tough and hilly section.

Good luck to the Sqadra!

John Davies
18 Aug 2010

The John & Dulcie Walker Road Races are due to take place on Sunday 19 September 2010

Full details are on the BC site here

HQ –
Neighbours Hall
Church Road
Great Milton
Oxfordshire
OX44

Please send all entries to

Richard Jerome
5 Sedley Grove
Harefield
Middlesex
UB9 6JB

Entry £12 in advance – £15 on the line.
Cheques payable to: Willesden Cycling Club

A number of our Audax riders are taking part in the 1600km Mille Miglia Audax ride in Italy. The route runs down from Milan to a point just north of Rome and back again, oh… and there is the odd moutain or twenty along the way.

I will update the blog each morning with the progress of our riders. They started last night (Moday 16th Aug) and this was the order in which they departed Milan.

21:01 Martin Lucas
21.31 Ian Oliver, Ray Kelly and Akiko Kawachi
21:32 Julian Holden
21:44 Mel Kirkland
21:44 Peter Turnbull

The next check point will be at 473km (Near Florence). This first stage is flat and fast, so I imagine they will start to pass through there late this afternoon to evening.

Check the blog tomorrow for the next update.

John Davies
17 August 2010

Mark taking a breather on the Ferry as part of his 600km

August 2010