Willesden Cycling Club

Unless otherwise stated, all runs meet at 9:30 am in Denham (on the A40, just outside Shane’s Garden Centre)

20 Sep 09
100k WCC Audax – Autumn Assortment
Ruislip 09.30 am

27 Sep 09
Dinton Pasture

04 Oct 09
Henley Riverside

11 Oct 09
Waddesdon Plant Centre

18 Oct 09
Wokingham Farm Cafe

25 Oct 09
Wendover Woods

01 Nov 09
Marsworth Black Barn

08 Nov 09
Marlow Sports Centre

15 Nov 09
Stokenchurch (Studley Green)

22 Nov 09
Ivinghoe Tea Rooms

29 Nov 09
Stoke Mandeville Goat Ctr.

06 Dec 09
Wokingham Holme Grange

Early in the race the group stayed together, but not for long

Let out for the day!

John , Ray and Jumbo pose for the camera

I bet he was pleased to see that finish line, after almost an hour out on his own.

Marcin Bialoblocki receives his winner’s trophy from Jumbo

The only thing that can beat Marcin are his shorts!

Photos by Suzz Patel

Insults by Miles Back

James Martin has published an apology on his website. It reads:

Regarding the The Tesla Roadster Article…
May I take this opportunity to apologize [sic] for any offence I have caused through the article in last weekend’s Mail on Sunday. It was never my intention to offend the many cyclists who share our roads across the country. What was intended to be a humorous piece was clearly misjudged. Further more I do not condone any form of reckless driving.

Once again, I am sincerely sorry for any upset caused in relation to this article.

James Martin

By the way an anagram of his name is Mint Arse Jam.

Miles back 15 September 2009

Yesterday’s Willesden Road races proved to be a great success with big fields signing up for both races.

The Cat 3/4 race had a strong green hue with five of the Squadra Verde’s finest lined up at the start. Our seasoned racers of Rich Cooper, John Williams, Peter Dixon and Lance Woodman were joined by new Willesden signing, Tom London ,in his first ever race. Our boys had a plan and did their best to make it work. Highlight of the day was the sight of Willesden team gloriously leading the peleton in the final stages of the race.

Lance metamorphosed from racer to roaming camera man and has posted a race video and a frank account his day on his web site at – http://tinyurl.com/mt839g. His sequel, featuring the E123 race, is scheduled to debut later this week.

In watching the race I was impressed by how comfortable the Squadra Vs were looking in the race. They handled themselves well and finished the ride well up amongst the wheels. Hats off to Tom London who was the first green back across the line. What a start to his racing career!

Next up was the Elite race, featuring an interesting strategy by Marcin Bialoblocki of the SportBeans-Wliler team. He went off the front in the first 30 minutes of the 90 minutes plus 5 lap race – surely madness! But no, he steadily built up a substantial lead of 35 seconds. His teams mates assisted by covering all the breaks from the peleton. In the dying minutes Marcin was fading, but he held on to win the race, with his loyal team mate crossing the line in second place.

Full results of both the John Walker and Dulcie Walker road races can be found here – http://bit.ly/ZLM4v

The only person whose worked rate exceeded Marcin’s was Jumbo James. In his role as chief organiser Jumbo was to be seen everywhere on a variety of hastily commandeered and inadequately sized bicycles. Legs turning at turbine speeds and Willesden jacket flapping in his slipstream, Jumbo gave 100% to make the race a success. Well done that man!

Miles Back
14 September 2009

Anthony Stanton has two bikes for sale. They are a Giant TCR carbon for racing and a good Ribble from Audax and Winter training. click on the picture for a enlarged picture of the bikes, the tech. spec. and Anthony’s contact details.

Happy shopping.

Lance Woodman was in action on the circuit earlier this weekend.

His tweet reported “Just to confirm: still rubbish at circuit racing. Managed to finish the day with 3 less BC points than I started it with.” This must be a unique achievement, but I suspect Rocco’s probably got a trophy to cover it.

Good luck to Lance, Richard, Rich and John in today’s WCC road race. See you all at the circuit in a couple of hours time. (Sorry if I have forgot anyone, but I don’t have a start sheet).

Miles Back 13 Sep 09

Willesden CC updates are now available straight to your moby via the technological marvel that is Twitter.

Our Twitter presence will not replace the established blog/web site, but will supplement it (not that type of supplement!) with brief toothsome nuggets of Willesden centric news and information. By joining (or “following” in Twitter speak) you can Txt short 140 character messages from your moby directly to the internet.

Some suggestions for using twitter is to quickly and easily let the club know –

– Your results from Road Racing, Time Trialling and Track.
– Update us where you are on an interesting Audax and where on earth Mel might be!
– Keep in contact during your tours and expeditions.
– Let others know what rides you are thinking of doing.
– Who won the sprint for the town sign during the Sunday club run.
– Who winning the argument at the club’s monthly meeting
– Reminders for upcoming events and deadlines
– Etc.

We already have a few “early adopters” but it would be great to have more.
Just go to http://twitter.com/Miles_Back and “Follow” us there.

Miles Back
10 Sept 09

A busy weekend for the time trialists this weekend.
Meurig James broke another club record on Sunday when riding in the Welsh National Championship 12 hour event. He covered 272miles 367 yards to beat the previous record held by Digger Baulch by over 10 miles. He finished in 4th place some 2 miles behind the winner and took the novice award for a first ride at the distance.

Gill Reynolds was 2nd fastest lady in the Reading 10 on Saturday finishing in 26.23. Pete Cookson recorded 24.17 and Brian Moon 28.40 in the same event.

On Sunday in the West London Combine 25 on the Amersham Road Pete Dixon was the club’s fastest and handicap award winner. Chris James recorded 1.08.53, Lance Woodman 1.08.46 and Brian Moon 1.13.47 Richard Cooper and Richard Jerome, taking a break from Hillingdon Cycle circuit, rode a 2 Up and finished in 1.03.19.

Jayne Paine rode at Scunthorpe Track in the last of the National Women’s 0mnium Series. She won the Pursuit, was 2nd in the Points, 4th in the 500m T.T., 5th in the Scratch and 7th in the Sprints to finish in 4th place overall for the meeting. She has 3 more meetings at Herne Hill and hopes to gain the necessary 14 points to gain her 1st cat licence.

Twenty-six longtime members of the club met for a lunch at Aylesford. The oldest member present was Nick Tidmarsh, aged 99, who joined theclub in 1927.
All for now,

Rick is an Audax rider Mark Brooking and Ray Kelly met on the Mille Miglia last year. He also happens to be the same rider who crumpled his titanium bike into a ball on this year’s LEL. After a trip to hospital he finished the ride on a borrowed bike.

Rick is the proud owner of a WCC jersey and sported it on a two back-to-back 246km Audax rides in Maryland last week. The two days composed of 306 miles, and 20,000 feet (6100 meters) of climbing. Rick rode with his buddy, Bill Beck , and has posted a load of pictures on –

Hi all,

I’ve been out in Sharjah, U.A.E. for nearly two weeks now and have settled in to the hotel and office. The beginning of my stay has coincided with hottest part of the year (low 40 C ) and Ramadan, so timing could have been better, but prospect is for it to cool off a little during September. All the eating places are closed during daytime during Ramadan but most will do a take away that can be eaten out of public view, and of course it’s “dry” though there are a few hotels & bars where a glass can be raised. I visited the Irish Village bar in Dubai last week for a good pint of extra extra cold Guinness with some folks from work.

The hotel is pretty comfortable and I have a sink, microwave and fridge/freezer in my room. The hotel gym and swimming pool are being refurbished and should re-open in September, however staff don’t seem able to confirm a date and until then there’s only two running , cycling and multi-gym machines. I tried a run by the lagoon (see pic) this morning at 05:45 and it was just about bearable at a steady pace.

I visited a work colleague of Paul Stewart at the weekend in Abu Dhabi. He cycles regularly with the local tri club and has a spare bike so we joined in with the Friday morning group at 05:30 for approx 110km of completely flat roads including lots of 3 lane highway with some smaller roads with little traffic once away from AD. Even the local guys said it was very hot by 08:30 and I was pretty cooked by the time we finished an hour later. On Saturday we had a short cycle followed by a swim at a good beach near the Sheik’s palace. I later visited the Grand Mosque which was v impressive before heading back to Sharjah.

I’m in the office today as it’s the first day of working week over here. I was originally due to return to UK on 5/11/09 but it seems likely that project duration will be extended, possibly into December, in which case I will come back home for 2 weeks and then return to UAE for further stint.

Hope the weather is/was OK for you over the bank hoilday. I shall miss audaxing in UK during the autumn.

Cheers,

Martin

We are looking for a large Willesden turnout with most of the road team taking part.
Come along. Time trial starts at 7pm, you will need to get there earlier to sign on.

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Rich Cooper, Richard Jerome and Pete Dixon were both in action at Hillingdon circuit this week on Tuesday Richard Jerome got confused in the sprint finish and sprinted a lap early along with quite a few others.

Rich Cooper got caught behind a crash when Michael Wilmot (team quest) brushed his pedal around one of the corners. Thankfully there were no injuries.

Pete Dixon finished well adding to his points tally towards his 3rd cat licence.

On Saturday Richard Jerome took part in the e/1/2/3 event and Pete inthe 4th cat event.

Rich was stuggling to find any form over the 45 laps and used the race as training after the bunch split into two.

Peter was pleased to finish 4th and is now a 3rd cat.

Well done!

Meurig James finished in the top 10 of the Hirwaun Wheelers 25 on Sunday with a personal best time of 52.15. He is now taking a week off to join his girlfriend who is competiting in the Dragon Boat Championships in Prague next week. He then plans to ride in the Welsh 12 hour.
Also riding a personal best this weekend was Joe Foley in the North Hampshire 25 at Farnham finishing in 1.05.04. Gill Reynold’s time of 1.06.25 in the same event gave her the fastest lady Vet award. Brian Moon and Chris James finished in 1.08.36 and 1.08.40.
On Sunday competing in the Hillingdon Old Crocks 10 at Gt. Missenden Jim McKay recorded 28.56, Alan Gallacher 29.03, Brian Wright 31.15 and Ron Purdy 32.56. In the Ladies Invitation event on the same course Gill Reynolds was 3rd in 27.29 and Joanna Austin 4th in 28.45.
All for now.
Cheers Gladys