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)
good work – time trialling round the circuit is not the easiest thing in the world
Looks like we had quality rather than quantity. Well the Willesden!!