Cycle Kingdom Series - Race 12 Results

Races held Wednesday 5th August 2009

CYCLE KINGDOM SERIES - Overall Classifications - UPDATED

Don't forget the Prize Presentation and BBQ after this week's final races

1 - Paul Pickup - Cycle Kingdom Race Team - 1
2 - Tim Elverson - Felt Racing - E
3 - Simon Ernest - AWCycles - 2
4 - Justin Hoy - Felt Racing - E
5 - Lewis Atkins - Agisko Viner - E
6 - Lee Smith - Felt Racing - 1
7 - Martin Smith - AWCycles - E
8 - Darrell Pembroke - www.agiskovinor.com - 1
9 - Boyd Roberts - Planet X - 1
10 - Nick Abraham - PM - 2
11 - John Wager - Felt Racing - E
12 - Tom Smith - AWCycles.co.uk - E
13 - Pete Wager - VC Meudon - 1
14 - Robert King - Reading CC - 2
15 - Gavin Spiers - Reading CC - 2


Youths Races
1 - Charlie Fawke - Fit For - A
2 - Lawrence Carpenter - Hillingdon Slipstreamers - A

1 - Louis Fawke - Hillingdon Slipstreamers - B
2 - Jason Brown - VC Meudon - B



3/4 - Result
1 - Glenn Duffy - PM - 3
2 - Andy Hibberd - Pedalon.co.uk - 3
3 - Darren Franklin - VC Meudon - 3
4 - Max Harris - VC Meudon - 3V
5 - Kevin Sparks - London Dynamo - 3
6 - Pete Connelly - Team Quest - 3
7 - Cameron Fraser - LA Fuga - 3
8 - Joshua Butterick - Charlotteville CC - 3
9 - Chris Day - VC Meudon - 4
10 - Jonathan Heal - FCCC - 4

VC Meudon/Felt Club dinner

Guys, I know summer hasn’t arrived yet but I’ve provisionally booked the Pride of the Valley for Friday November 20th…..usual format of no speeches, Cycle Kingdom raffle, foxy dress code, and stumbling home.

There is a max of 60 so don’t delay in emailing me how many places you need…..there is accommodation available for those who’d like to stay, see www.prideofthevalleyhotel.com/


KB

Race for 35+ - Older Man's RR

The Older Man's Memorial RR takes place on two circuits near Ellen's Green on 15/08/09, start time 12.45. It's a slightly complicated race in that it's a BC race with points rather than an LVRC race and you have to be a 2/3/4th category rider over 35 or any category over 40. There are currently plenty of places available.

http://tinyurl.com/nfo8ng

Dan takes top spot in FRF Mazda Duathlon

Dan McCarthey reports from the FRF Mazda Gower Duathlon, in Swansea, Wales:

Taking in some running in addition to the usual biking was always going to be an interesting one having not competed in a duathlon in almost two years. However, it was to prove a successful day with a victory by almost 4 minutes over a good quality field, including some regular GB competitors. Historically my cycling has always been inferior to my running (honest!!), although the first season of racing for VCM seemed to have paid off as I came in 1:30 clear of anyone else on the bike (over 21 miles), with a further 2:30 taken from the two runs (5mile and 3 mile). Off to Geel, Belgium in a week to compete in the Powerman World Series event over a longer distance of 10km run/60km bike/10km run, where competition will be tough against the South Africans, Spaniards, Aussies, and of course the Flemish!

6 do the Downs

Warren reports back from a big day out:

Myself, Steve, Dave C, Craig, Dave L and Gabriel road the South Downs Way MTB ride on Sunday 26th July, for anyone that doesn’t know it is a brutal test of climbing and descending starting in Winchester and ending in Eastbourne 101 miles later. The aim was to set off from Winchester at 7am and aim to get to Eastbourne in around 10hrs where we were to be greeted by Mr Larcombe’s brother Paul (who kindly picked us up and dropped us off at silly o’clock in the morning)

The weather was kind mainly overcast but with a tail to cross wind all the way down. The initial section before you reach Queen Elizabeth Country Park is the most tricky in terms of navigation, luckily Craig had a Garmin sat nav plus a good sense of direction! There are a few sections of road early on and the signs are not the best but we made it to the QEP without making too many errors. Once there we had our first proper decent down towards the A3. After stopping for a natures break in the park Dave L discovered that his camel back (which seemed rather heavy) had in fact been sabotaged by his work colleagues and discovered some weights had kindly been placed in there. Once he had lightened himself and the weights we headed off as by now we were approx ¼ distance.

The one problem with this ride is you need to carry an enormous amount of food/drink and spares so the svelte MTBs suddenly feel very different under such load, also there are a lot of gates that require opening and closing along the route which can disrupt your rhythm. The middle section is probably the best part of the route passing South Harting and onwards through to the Devil’s Dyke, the hills are enormous and surprisingly tough and seem to come one after the other, along the route there are a couple of places where you can fill up with water via taps, in a way the weather played into our hands as we never seemed to require vast amounts of liquid.

Around this part of the ride everyone was starting to flag slightly (some more than others) but with constant eating everyone managed to ride through it. Also being roadies the main area we felt it was in the arms and hands with my hands cramping constantly from the bumpy descents and the long climbs. The ride was going well with no mechanicals or issues. When you get past Ditchling the route does become slightly monotonous with large open views and the chance to see the next monster hill looking in the distance. At this point we had our first puncture but were quickly on our way again just as the wind and rain picked up, by the time we had descended into the last village on the route the weather had improved and we stopped to re fuel (on cream cakes mainly). The ride was nearly over but we still had two more big climbs to go. The cream cake I had made the first of these climbs rather hard but it had kicked in nicely for the final climb.

We all made it to Eastbourne as a group and had done it in a time of 8hrs 58mins riding time and a total of 3300 metres of climbing, next time we’ll ride there and back!

All in all a recommended ride and I’m sure we’ll do it again next year once the memory of the pain has passed.

Free kids' Condor bike loan

Message from Chris Day:

Dom has grown out of his little Condor race bike now! I don't want to sell it but make it available to club members for any kids that want to give racing a go!

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