TT report – w/e 25/7/10

Posted on 26/Jul/2010 by Lance Woodman

Midweek
Stuart Birnie road the Rollapaluza Urban Hill Climb on Swains Lane. He finished in 47th of the 101 finishers in 1:58.6. The winner was Chris Metcalfe (Matllock CC) in 1:32.9.

At the Westerley CC club ‘10.3’ at Hillingdon on Wednesday evening Tom London rode a 25:38 and I strolled round for a 27:00. Malcolm Woolsey won it in a 23:46.

Saturday
No reports yet

Sunday
Peter Dixon and Stuart Birnie rode the Southern Counties CU ‘100’ on the G100/60. Quite a tough course apparently. Peter did an excellent 4:16:18 for 15th place. Stuart did 4:52:20 for 54th place. Stuart rode the event in his daps and even managed to incorporate an extra six miles – read the whole remarkable story, and a report of the hill climb, here. The event was won by Rob Pelham of Lewes Wanderers in 3:52:40.

Gill Reynolds rode the Banbury Star ’25’ and finished in 1:10:36.

I rode the Verulam CC ’25’ on the F1/25 and did a 1:01:45.

Coming up…
w/e 15/8 – There a ’10’ on the E2/10 on the Saturday. On the Sunday there’s the Maidenhead and Dist CC ’10’ on the H10/22 and a ’25’ on the F1b/25.

TT Secretary
I’ve been inundated with requests for information from people interested in doing the job of TT Secretary for next season. Rather than reply individually I thought I’d address some of the major points here…

  • The post is unpaid
  • There is no company car
  • You do not get the free use of a bungalow
  • You are still allowed to ride road races and ‘other cycling stuff’
  • There are no tattoos involved

Still interested? Do get in touch for a chat about the job.

Lance Woodman (TT Secretary)

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TT report – w/e 25th July 2010

Posted on 26/Jul/2010 by Lance Woodman

Midweek
Stuart Birnie road the Rollapaluza Urban Hill Climb on Swains Lane. He finished in 47th of the 101 finishers in 1:58.6. The winner was Chris Metcalfe (Matllock CC) in 1:32.9.

At the Westerley CC club ‘10.3’ at Hillingdon on Wednesday evening Tom London rode a 25:38 and I strolled round for a 27:00. Malcolm Woolsey won it in a 23:46.

Saturday
No reports yet

Sunday
Peter Dixon and Stuart Birnie rode the Southern Counties CU ‘100’ on the G100/60. Quite a tough course apparently. Peter did an excellent 4:16:18 for 15th place. Stuart did 4:52:20 for 54th place. Stuart rode the event in his daps and even managed to incorporate an extra six miles – read the whole remarkable story, and a report of the hill climb, here. The event was won by Rob Pelham of Lewes Wanderers in 3:52:40.

Gill Reynolds rode the Banbury Star ’25’ and finished in 1:10:36.

I rode the Verulam CC ’25’ on the F1/25 and did a 1:01:45. 
Coming up…
w/e 15/8 – There a ’10’ on the E2/10 on the Saturday. On the Sunday there’s the Maidenhead and Dist CC ’10’ on the H10/22 and a ’25’ on the F1b/25.

TT Secretary
I’ve been inundated with requests for information from people interested in doing the job of TT Secretary for next season. Rather than reply individually I thought I’d address some of the major points here…

  • The post is unpaid
  • There is no company car
  • You do not get the free use of a bungalow
  • You are still allowed to ride road races and ‘other cycling stuff’
  • There are no tattoos involved

Still interested? Do get in touch for a chat about the job.

Lance Woodman (TT Secretary)

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TT report – w/e 18th July 2010

Posted on 19/Jul/2010 by Lance Woodman

Hmmm, not much action on the TT office Telex this morning. Perhaps there’ll be more news once we’ve checked the pigeon loft. However, one of my trusty assistants has come up with the following results…

Midweek
Nowt

Saturday
Gill Reynolds recorded a 26:26 in the North Hants RC ’10’ on the H10/8 (Bentley) course. Fastest was Stephen Whitewick (Utag Yamaha.com) with 20:16.

Sunday
Peter Dixon did a 1:57:52 (+20:11) for the VTTA National ’50’ Championship on the H50/4 (Great Missenden) course – the 3rd fastest ride of the day. Fastest was David Johnson (VC10) in 1:56:00 and the champion was 80+ year old Dennis Milsom with 2:16:24 (+50:56). Joe Foley failed to finish in the accompanying WLCA event which was won by Tejvan Pettinger (Sri Chinmoy RT) in 1:53:57.

Terry Deere recorded 36:20 at the early morning Richmond Park 10.4 mile TT on his road bike. Fastest on a road bike was Tim Stevens (34th Nomads CC – Gem Hygiene) with 25:50.

I rode the Don Woodman Memorial ’25’ on the R25/16 (Pandy) course. It was a good day, but the final uphill 10 miles got to me and I recorded a 1:3:14. The winner was Alan Cook from the promoting Ross-on-Wye and Dist CC with a 53:17.

Coming up…
I can’t see any opens on Saturday 7th August, but there’s a South Bucks RC club ’10’ on the Maidenhead Thicket (H10/2).

On Sunday 8th there’s another London Dynamo Richmond Park TT (closing date 25/7), the Farnham RC 4-up and 2-up ’25’ on the H25/8 (Bentley) and a Finsbury Park CC ’25’ on the F1/25.

Lance Woodman (TT Secretary)

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TT report – w/e 18th July 2010

Posted on 19/Jul/2010 by Lance Woodman

Hmmm, not much action on the TT office Telex this morning. Perhaps there’ll be more news once we’ve checked the pigeon loft. However, one of my trusty assistants has come up with the following results…

Midweek
Nowt

Saturday
Gill Reynolds recorded a 26:26 in the North Hants RC ’10’ on the H10/8 (Bentley) course. Fastest was Stephen Whitewick (Utag Yamaha.com) with 20:16.

Sunday
Peter Dixon did a 1:57:52 (+20:11) for the VTTA National ’50’ Championship on the H50/4 (Great Missenden) course – the 3rd fastest ride of the day. Fastest was David Johnson (VC10) in 1:56:00 and the champion was 80+ year old Dennis Milsom with 2:16:24 (+50:56). Joe Foley failed to finish in the accompanying WLCA event which was won by Tejvan Pettinger (Sri Chinmoy RT) in 1:53:57.

Terry Deere recorded 36:20 at the early morning Richmond Park 10.4 mile TT on his road bike. Fastest on a road bike was Tim Stevens (34th Nomads CC – Gem Hygiene) with 25:50.

I rode the Don Woodman Memorial ’25’ on the R25/16 (Pandy) course. It was a good day, but the final uphill 10 miles got to me and I recorded a 1:3:14. The winner was Alan Cook from the promoting Ross-on-Wye and Dist CC with a 53:17.

Coming up…
I can’t see any opens on Saturday 7th August, but there’s a South Bucks RC club ’10’ on the Maidenhead Thicket (H10/2).

On Sunday 8th there’s another London Dynamo Richmond Park TT (closing date 25/7), the Farnham RC 4-up and 2-up ’25’ on the H25/8 (Bentley) and a Finsbury Park CC ’25’ on the F1/25.

Lance Woodman (TT Secretary)

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WANTED: Time Trial Secretary for 2011 season

Posted on 15/Jul/2010 by Lance Woodman

I’ve enjoyed being Club TT Secretary this year. Unfortunately I won’t be able to continue next year because of other commitments.

So we’re looking for a new TT Secretary for 2011. The job involves:

  • Promoting time trialling and the associated club trophies to club members via the blog and email
  • Co-ordinating entries to West London Combine events
  • Drumming up marshals for two of the WLC events
  • Creating and maintaining a record of riders’ best performances to aid the handicapper
  • Publicising your team mates’ performances on the blog and in the magazine
  • Where possible, attending and reporting to the monthly committee meetings
  • Maintaining the time trialling pages on the new Web site

None of this has proved too demanding and I will be around until at least March next year to help with a handover if that’s required. Are you interested? If you are, please do get in touch for a chat.

Lance Woodman (TT Secretary)

P.S. There is also the opportunity to promote one or more club and open events. I had hoped to promote an open SPOCO event next season. If you want to do this, get in touch as soon as possible – the CTT date fixing meeting is being held soon. If you don’t want to promote – that’s fine too.

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Cancer Research UK Bike Ride

Posted on 14/Jul/2010 by Lance Woodman
This appeared in the e-post. We’ll discuss it at the next committee meeting in August, but if anyone would like to comment please let Gladys know (or comment here).

Dear Sirs,

I am writing on the behalf of Cancer Research UK. We are organising a bike ride in Richmond Park in September this year. It will be a family friendly event however we would like to get cycling clubs involved as well. I am writing in order to find out if your club would be inerested in taking part in our bike ride. We would be very happy to see representatives of your club at the event and also if there would be chance to promote our bike ride in your club by putting posters up etc. We will soon confirm dates and details of the event and would be pleased if Willesden Cycling Club would be interested in being part of it.

Kind regards,

Magdalena Nowak

Volunteer for South West London

Cancer Research UK

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Rollapaluza Urban Hill Climb 22.07.10 Swains Lane, London.

Posted on 14/Jul/2010 by Lance Woodman

Just saw this and thought the hill climb squadra might be interested?… I note that the male and male vet categories are currently sold out, but several riders have managed to enter more than once (including Hippy), so places might become available. It’ll certainly be an event to go and watch, even if you can’t get a ride.

Full details here.

Rollapaluza are proud to announce the “Urban Hill Climb” which we believe will be the first London Hill Climb event with a full road closure.

On Thursday 22nd after the pros in the Tour de France have battled their way up the Col du Tourmalet, Londoners (and visitors!) will be able to grab their own piece of glory on the slopes of Highgate’s renowned Swains Lane which features in Hill Climb expert Simon Warren’s new book “100 Greatest Cycling Climbs”

Entry is free so you’ll need to register quickly in order to take part.

6.30pm -9pm
FREE to enter or spectate
Prizes of over £750 in value thanks to Condor Cycles, £500 cash prize pot from Rollapaluza
Online Entry (closes 9pm Tuesday 20th)
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TT report – w/e 11th July 2010

Posted on 12/Jul/2010 by Lance Woodman

Let me know if I’ve missed any rides. LW.

Midweek
Wednesday night was one of Westerley CC’s 11 lap 10.3m TTs at Hillingdon Circuit. Tom London was the fastest Green Machine with 25:18. Harmeet Dhiraj did 32:40 and her sister Balneet did 33:36. The winner was Malcolm Woolsey (Westerley CC) in 23:51.

Saturday
Peter Dixon rode the Antelope RT ’10’ on the P613 for a PB of 20:27. Mark Jones won the senior event in 19:16 and Alan Cook (Ross-on-Wye and Dist CC) won the vets event in 19:18.

Gill Reynolds rode the Bedfordshire RC ’10’ (F1b/10) and was first woman with a 25:40.

Peter Cookson went to ride the Oxonian CC ’10’ on the H10/17R but the event was cancelled because of two RTIs.

Sunday
I rode the National ‘100’ Championships on the B100/5 course near Norwich. The rising headwind put paid to my efforts after 75 miles and I was DNF. The men’s event was won by Michael Hutchinson (In Gear-QuickVit) in 3:23:03, just 19 seconds off competition record. Julia Shaw (Utag Yamaha) beat the women’s CR with an amazing 3:45:22 – faster than all but six of the men’s field.

Coming up…
The last weekend of July sees a Saturday (31/7) ’10’ on the Bentley course (H10/8) organised by the Charlotteville CC. On Sunday (1/8) there’s a rare ’25’ on the Marlow ski slope (H25/2) organised by the West London CA (WCC are members of the WLCA).

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Cycling ‘Networking’ ride.

Posted on 12/Jul/2010 by Richard Jerome

I’ve beet talking to a mate of mine, who like me works in PR, about finding an excuse to ride our bikes during the working week and pass it off as working? If people can do it with golf, why can’t we?….

So we’re asking around to see who’ll rock up if we invite keen road cyclists who work in PR and Communications to get together to, ahem, “network and share ideas” on the inaugural Communicators Club Run on Friday 10 September.

We’re planning on a 50K ride at a 20-25kph pace starting from Watford at 10 am. We’ll head out through the Chilterns and have a tea/cake/networking break before getting back to the start at around 1 pm. We’re not planning anything too challenging and will roll at the pace of the slowest rider mostly along quiet lanes.

Trains leave for Watford from Euston and the town is close to the M1 and M25 and not too far from the M40.

It would be cool if it could get a mention on the blog – perhaps with a link to http://soatrab.wordpress.com/2010/07/12/the-inaugural-comms-club-run/ asking people to get in touch with either Paul Wilkinson on paul.wilkinson@pwcom.co.uk or me on lfitzpatrick@bell-pottinger.co.uk.

Cheers

Liam

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John Spicer

Posted on 07/Jul/2010 by Miles Back

Ray Kelly has just contacted me with the sad news that John “Spike” Spicer died earlier this week.

His funeral will be at 12:00pm Thursday 15th July at the Breakspear Crematorium, Breakspear Road, Ruislip, Middlesex HA4 7JS.

John Davies

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New website

Posted on 07/Jul/2010 by Rich Cooper

Hello all,

Sorry for the amount of time it has taken us to get around to this, but after many comments of how the last website was a pain to edit and out of date, we have decided to bring Willesden CC into the “tweens” with a brand new website.

The main feature of this site is that it will be completely manageable and editable by Willesden members, hopefully making it a central part of how the club communicates to it’s members.

The all new blog area (“The Willesden Hub”) is hugely expanded and allows for enhanced commenting. It also allows for categorisation of posts, for example you can now just view posts about time-trials or road-racing or whatever you want. We want members to post their own stories and news to this area and feedback on other members news.

UPDATE: If you are a “tweeter” on Twitter, simply tag your posts with “#willesdencc” and they will show up on our Live twitter feed page

We hope you like the new facilities and help us make this a better site for all.

All the best

Rich Cooper (part time WillesdenCC racer, full time geek.)

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More results from Porlock

Posted on 06/Jul/2010 by Lance Woodman

Ian Piper writes about The Tour of Exmoor Sportive:

Having never ridden a sportive before this was a whole new experience. The options were 56, 80 or 97 miles, the 56 seemed a bit like bottling out and as I have only averaged 110 miles a week for the last 4 weeks the 97 was out of the question so I opted for the 80. Interesting set up once you have your number and electronic timing chip you can start by just riding off over the timing strip anytime you wanted between 8 and 9am, no groups starting together or anything remotely like a reliability trial. Oddly enough at the event I met a rider from the training camp I went to in Mallorca, we never rode together out there as he was in the fast group and way too fast for me to have any hope of staying with. He was doing the 97 miler with his team mate but I decided that they could be a good back wheel for the first 15 miles until the 2 distances went in different directions. Theory was good as we soon started to do what they referred to as a steady through and off, I never missed a turn but I wouldn’t have called it steady nor would the 40 odd riders we must have passed in 15 miles, 3 tagged on and did between 1 and 3 turns before they were shelled out the back. That was then the end of any assistance for me, from 18 to 53 miles I never met another rider. I got into a near time trial rhythm and just put my head down, great idea that was until about 60 miles when I started to suffer, the last 10 miles were hell, cramp behind the knees up hills in the saddle, cramp in the front of my legs out of the saddle, feeling sick and very light headed. I eventually finished in 5 hours 7 minutes which included a 1 minute stop to fill up my drinking bottle and 65 miles on my own but I had no idea if that was a good or bad ride, it did qualify me for a silver standard medal. The only thing I knew was that nobody had passed me not even when I was doing a near walking speed towards the end. The results were published on the Sunday and now I feel very happy probably in no small part to the fact that I don’t feel like I’m about to die anymore and even more by the fact that I was the fastest rider by 38 minutes and the only one in the 80 mile distance to qualify for a silver standard medal. Across all three distances only one rider qualified for a gold medal, he was in the 56 mile event, I was the only silver with the rest getting bronze. The rider from Mallorca and his team mate came in first and second in the 97 mile event. It was an interesting route but it was seriously hilly with 8,800 foot of ascent according to my computer, 9,990 feet according to the organisers, hilly who ever is right so no surprise really that I blow up big time, 5 hours of constant effort, average heart rate for the whole ride of 142 bpm and just over 1,100 foot of climbing every 10 miles.

Would I have another go, most certainly but I would also try to get a group of similar abilities to enter and ride together.

If anybody in the club is interested we could have a go at the Exmoor Beast Sportive at the end of the season, discount on accommodation obviously. www.exmoor-house.co.uk
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TT report – w/e 4th July 2010

Posted on 05/Jul/2010 by Lance Woodman

Midweek
Wednesday: CC Breckland ’10′ B10/3. Gill Reynolds was 2nd lady in 24:16

Tony Flynn rode the Bath Road Club Black Park ’9.2′. He recorded a 24:02. It was a nice evening. It was won by M. Ketterer of Team Quest with a 22:41.

Saturday
Crabwood CC P613 ’10′: Gill did a 24:29 and Pete Cookson did a 23:06 despite riding around the turn roundabout twice. Good to get the miles in, Peter.

Several of us rode the Charlotteville CC ’25′ at Bentley (H25/8). I was fastest with a 1:01:32, just shading Russell O’Malley who did 1:01:56 before setting out for a run.Chris James recorded 1:07:40 and Brian Moon did a 1:10:46. Alex Dowsett (U23 Trek-Livestrong) won the event by nearly 5 minutes with a course record 47:50. It was a warm and breezy day.

Sunday
No rides that I know of. Let me know if I’m wrong.

Coming up…
The weekend of the 24/25 July looks pretty thin. There’s a Verulam CC ’25′ on the F1/25 on the Sunday. If that fills up there a Westerley club ’10′ on the Great Missenden course (HCC180).

LW

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TT Report – w/e 4th July 2010

Posted on 05/Jul/2010 by Lance Woodman

Midweek

Wednesday: CC Breckland ’10’ B10/3.  Gill Reynolds was 2nd lady in 24:16

Tony Flynn rode the Bath Road Club Black Park ‘9.2’. He recorded a 24:02.  It was a nice evening. It was won by M. Ketterer of Team Quest with a 22:41.

Saturday

Crabwood CC P613 ’10’: Gill did a 24:29 and Pete Cookson did a 23:06 despite riding around the turn roundabout twice. Good to get the miles in, Peter.

Several of us rode the Charlotteville CC ’25’ at Bentley (H25/8). I was fastest with a 1:01:32, just shading Russell O’Malley who did 1:01:56 before setting out for a run. Chris James recorded 1:07:40 and Brian Moon did a 1:10:46. Alex Dowsett (U23 Trek-Livestrong) won the event by nearly 5 minutes with a course record 47:50. It was a warm and breezy day.

Sunday

No rides that I know of. Let me know if I’m wrong.

Coming up…

The weekend of the 24/25 July looks pretty thin. There’s a Verulam CC ’25’ on the F1/25 on the Sunday. If that fills up there a Westerley club ’10’ on the Great Missenden course (HCC180).

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Podium Girl!

Posted on 05/Jul/2010 by Rich Cooper

Jayne Wins Gold

Jayne Paine has bagged a Gold Medal and three silvers at the UK Track Masters at Manchester this weekend. The Gold came from her signature event – the Points race. One of the Silvers came from the Pursuit event – full details will follow.

Well done Jayne! You might even qualify for the Queen of Mountains with all that podium scaling.

Miles Back
July 2010

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New site underway

Posted on 02/Jul/2010 by Rich Cooper

Sorry it’s taken us a while to get around to it, but we are now building a new website with the blog in-built. We will try our best to move over all content from the existing blog and we hope to get the new site up in the next few weeks. However… we need PHOTOS. I don’t know about you, but I am bored of seeing all of the road-racers on the site, when the club does so much more. So if you have any good (high-res) pictures of track events, club rubs, social events, club dinner, whatever, send them over.

Our main goal for the new site is to allow club members to update the site themselves, that way it will always be current and relevant.

For now here is a sneaky peak!

Rich Cooper

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Invitation to Official Opening of the Hillingdon Club House

Posted on 02/Jul/2010 by Rich Cooper

All Willesden CC members are invited to the official opening of the brand new Hillingdon Club House on Tuesday 13th July.

Ian Why has asked that as many of us attend as possible.

Update – Just been advised by Ian that there is no need to RSVP, just turn up on the day.

Miles Back
02 July 2010

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Dextro Energy Triathlon ITU World Championship

Posted on 30/Jun/2010 by Rich Cooper

Received via email. If you’d like a copy of the form referred to, please get in touch with me (Lance) or Gladys.


Good morning


You may or may not be aware that The Dextro Energy Triathlon ITU World Championship London returns to Hyde Park on Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th July 2010.

I thought this event may appeal to your cyclists  and am wondering whether any of them would like to get up close to the action by way of taking up a volunteer position along the racecourse. As well as providing a great experience, these positions are vital to the success of the event.

I would greatly appreciate your assistance – could you kindly advertise this opportunity to all of your members? I have attached a form that volunteers can return to us, which also provides further information about the event.

I am hoping to hear from volunteers within the next week but if this is not possible I would be happy to hear from them anytime up until the event.

Thank you in advance for any help you are able to give.

Kind regards
Eleanor Lawrence
Volunteer Co-ordinator
Dextro Energy Triathlon ITU World Championship London
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West London Combine WCC league LATEST

Posted on 29/Jun/2010 by Rich Cooper

There was no handicap award for Sunday’s ’50’, but I’ve updated the ‘Fastest‘ table to reflect the current standings. Three of the four finishers move up the table with only poor Peter failing to progress (he was already in first place). With only three events left it’s going to take an extraordinary amount of TT Secretary corruption to beat him now.

Rider #1:
10m 		#2:
25m 		#3:
25m 		#4:
25m 		#5
50m 		Rides Points Rank
Peter Dixon 30 30 30 30 30 5 150 1
Stuart Birnie 28 28 29 29 4 114 2
Lance Woodman 27 26 26 27 4 106 3
Simon Wicks 29 29 28 3 86 4
Chris James 25 29 24 3 78 5
Russell O’Malley 27 28 2 55 6
John Williams 25 25 2 50 7
Richard Jerome 27 1 27 8
Jayne Paine 26 1 26 9
Brian Moon 23 1 23 10
Harmeet Dhiraj 22 1 22 11

The next WLC event is not until September 5th – a 2-up or solo ’25’. I will be looking entries in late August. If anyone would like tips on how to ride a 2-up, do get in touch.
LW

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Circuit championships – early photos

Posted on 27/Jun/2010 by Rich Cooper

Here are three of Ron’s pics:

Have you ever seen so much green?
I think this one’s from the TTT
Jayne ‘Bunty’ Paine – ladies champeen for the day. Tom ‘Tommeke’ London (seated to the left of Ray) was men’s champeen. Eliz Mehmed (out of shot, probably already on her way to the pawn shop with her trophy) was also a champeen.
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