October Festival of Racing at Hillingdon

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

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What a week

The Squadra Verde has been tearing round Italy in the Mille Miglia – thanks to John Davies for the regular updates and to the official Web site for round-the-clock time checks. We await a considered report by the participants – We want to hear about dusky Mediterranean maidens, miraculously reinvigorating espressos, ice cream parlours to die for and the many more hallucinations that can be brought on by sleep deprivation and unnatural physical discomfort.

Meanwhile the testers were suffering from statistical overload after Wednesday’s last Westerley CC Hillingdon Circuit TT of the season (report here).

On Friday the WCC (and half the population of North and West London) were at Hillingdon Cycle Circuit for the Minet Ladies Cycling Club 1,000 lap charity ride. Over 70 riders turned up and we knocked of the 1,000 laps in about 90 minutes. 1,895 laps (that’s over 1,750 miles) were covered in total and hundreds of pounds were raised for a local charity.

Saturday was the club Track Championships at Welwyn organised by Tony Woodford with help from Steve May. It was a warm, dry afternoon for the eleven participants. After four events Tom London was crowned as men’s champion, Jayne Paine as the women’s champion, Kirsten Savage as under 16 girl’s champion and Connor Woodford as under 16 boys champion. Hat to all the riders.

Under 16
Name No. TT Time TT Sprint Points Scratch Total Position
Connor Woodford 50 16.45 3 5 3 3 14 3
Hannah Woodford 1 25.41 5 1 5 5 16 4
Kirsten Savage 2 15.37 1 2 1 1 5 1
Lauren Savage 3 16.76 4 3 2 2 11 2
Stephanie May 11 16.23 2 4 4 4 14 3
Senior Riders
Name No. TT Time TT Sprint Points Scratch Total Position
Tom London 4 14.00 1 1 1 1 4 1
Jayne Paine 5 14.21 2 2 2 2 8 2
Lance Woodman 6 15.86 4 3 3 3 13 3
Balneet Dhiraj 7 15.40 3 5 4 4 16 4
Harmeet Dhiraj 8 16.50 5 6 5 6 22 6
Chris James 9 17.25 6 4 6 5 21 5

While the be-sequined trackstars were riding round in circles the road squad were… riding round in circles at Hillingdon. No report in yet.

Gill Reynolds rode the Team Sanjan 10m TT near Cambridge recording a 25:46 in windy conditions. Fastest on the day was Ashley Cox of Team Corley Cycles in 20:12.

Sunday dawned early for Peter Dixon and Joe Foley at the Oxonian ‘50’ near Kingston Bagpuss. In tough conditions Peter came a fine fourth with 1:57:55. Joe did a 2:36:41. The winner was Jesse Elzinga (Beeline Bicycles RT) in 1:52:57.

The team bus took the biggest team of the weekend to the Old Crocks’ ‘10’ organised by Hillingdon CC at Great Missenden. Tim Burrows won the Old Crocks’ Trophy on handicap with a ride of 26:30. Jenny Wright won the Ladies Handicap Trophy with a 40:07. Other rides were: Brian Wright 31:29, Ron Purdy 32:11, Jim McKay 28:17, Alan Gallacher 29:29, and Lance Woodman (private trial) 25:03. Potential new member Chloe Aitken produced a fine debut ride on her road bike of 26:29. It was good to see so many WCC supporters out as well. Fastest on the day was a private trial by Peter Smith of 22:35.

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What a week

The Squadra Verde has been tearing round Italy in the Mille Miglia – thanks to John Davies for the regular updates and to the official Web site for round-the-clock time checks. We await a considered report by the participants – We want to hear about dusky Mediterranean maidens, miraculously reinvigorating espressos, ice cream parlours to die for and the many more hallucinations that can be brought on by sleep deprivation and unnatural physical discomfort.

Meanwhile the testers were suffering from statistical overload after Wednesday’s last Westerley CC Hillingdon Circuit TT of the season (report here).

On Friday the WCC (and half the population of North and West London) were at Hillingdon Cycle Circuit for the Minet Ladies Cycling Club 1,000 lap charity ride. Over 70 riders turned up and we knocked of the 1,000 laps in about 90 minutes. 1,895 laps (that’s over 1,750 miles) were covered in total and hundreds of pounds were raised for a local charity.

The Mayor starts the ride

The Mayor starts the ride while Keith Elliot is still getting his leg over

Saturday was the club Track Championships at Welwyn organised by Tony Woodford with help from Steve May. It was a warm, dry afternoon for the eleven participants. After four events Tom London was crowned as men’s champion, Jayne Paine as the women’s champion, Kirsten Savage as under 16 girl’s champion and Connor Woodford as under 16 boys champion. Hat to all the riders.

Under 16
Name No. TT Time TT Sprint Points Scratch Total Position
Connor Woodford 50 16.45 3 5 3 3 14 3
Hannah Woodford 1 25.41 5 1 5 5 16 4
Kirsten Savage 2 15.37 1 2 1 1 5 1
Lauren Savage 3 16.76 4 3 2 2 11 2
Stephanie May 11 16.23 2 4 4 4 14 3
Senior Riders
Name No. TT Time TT Sprint Points Scratch Total Position
Tom London 4 14.00 1 1 1 1 4 1
Jayne Paine 5 14.21 2 2 2 2 8 2
Lance Woodman 6 15.86 4 3 3 3 13 3
Balneet Dhiraj 7 15.40 3 5 4 4 16 4
Harmeet Dhiraj 8 16.50 5 6 5 6 22 6
Chris James 9 17.25 6 4 6 5 21 5

While the be-sequined trackstars were riding round in circles the road squad were… riding round in circles at Hillingdon. No report in yet.

Gill Reynolds rode the Team Sanjan 10m TT near Cambridge recording a 25:46 in windy conditions. Fastest on the day was Ashley Cox of Team Corley Cycles in 20:12.

Sunday dawned early for Peter Dixon and Joe Foley at the Oxonian ‘50’ near Kingston Bagpuss. In tough conditions Peter came a fine fourth with 1:57:55. Joe did a 2:36:41. The winner was Jesse Elzinga (Beeline Bicycles RT) in 1:52:57.

The team bus took the biggest team of the weekend to the Old Crocks’ ‘10’ organised by Hillingdon CC at Great Missenden. Tim Burrows won the Old Crocks’ Trophy on handicap with a ride of 26:30. Jenny Wright won the Ladies Handicap Trophy with a 40:07. Other rides were: Brian Wright 31:29, Ron Purdy 32:11, Jim McKay 28:17, Alan Gallacher 29:29, and Lance Woodman (private trial) 25:03. Potential new member Chloe Aitken produced a fine debut ride on her road bike of 26:29. It was good to see so many WCC supporters out as well. Fastest on the day was a private trial by Peter Smith of 22:35.

Tim Burrows and Jenny Wright with their trophies

Tim Burrows and Jenny Wright with their trophies

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Mille Miglia – day 6

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

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Mille Miglia – Day 5

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

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Mille Miglia – Day 4

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

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Westerley mid-week 10m TT

Normally this article would be part of the weekly TT report, but we’ve been given a shed load of data so I thought that I’d offer some analysis for the riders.

Last night was the last of the Westerley CC Wednesday 10s at the Hillingdon Circuit. The races are 11 laps (so actually about 10.35 miles). This year’s innovation has been the use of transponder technology which helps count the laps and gives intermediate splits. So now we can tell how even each rider’s pace is.

Last night’s event was won by Jerone Walters (Sigma Sport) in 21:43 (21:00 equivalent for 10mls). Our own Peter Dixon was second with 23:18 (22:32). Other Willesden rides were Tom London 25:31 (24:41), Lance Woodman 27:18 (26:25), Bea Geraghty with a PB of 30:43 (29:43) and Balneet Dhiraj, also with a PB, 31:05 (30:04).

Balneet probably rode 20 laps before she decided that she might just have completed the distance!

The summary table below shows fastest, slowest, difference and average (mean) lap times together with the standard deviation from the mean. The lower the standard deviation, the smoother the pacing – something to aim for in time trialling.

Name Fastest
lap
Slowest
lap
Diff.
(secs)
Average
lap
Standard
deviation (secs)
Peter 2:03.9 2:09.1 5.2 2:07.0 1.6
Tom 2:13.1 2:24.4 11.3 2:19.2 3.3
Lance 2:26.3 2:31.4 5.1 2:28.9 1.5
Bea 2:41.2 2:58.3 17.1 2:47.5 4.5
Balneet 2:44.5 2:53.9 9.4 2:49.5 3.0

The actual lap times were as follows:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Peter 2:07.8 2:05.4 2:06.9 2:07.2 2:05.1 2:07.8 2:08.3 2:07.4 2:09.1 2:08.2 2:03.9
Tom 2:13.1 2:20.7 2:23.1 2:24.4 2:17.8 2:19.7 2:21.3 2:18.6 2:18.3 2:18.8 2:15.0
Lance 2:29.0 2:26.3 2:28.6 2:29.5 2:31.4 2:28.7 2:28.4 2:29.0 2:31.1 2:28.6 2:27.2
Bea 2:58.3 2:48.7 2:41.2 2:47.3 2:46.6 2:47.4 2:50.8 2:49.5 2:43.4 2:44.5 2:45.2
Balneet 2:44.5 2:46.3 2:48.0 2:52.8 2:48.8 2:48.4 2:50.5 2:47.4 2:52.9 2:51.0 2:53.9

Lance Woodman (TT secretary)