Saturday 22 May 2010

Festival RC 10 mile TT champs

The first club trophy of the year was decided today in the Farnham RC 10 held on the Bentley course.
On a gloriously warm day albeit a bit windy for any significantly quick times, John Froud and Mick Gowan were the early starters posting very respectable times of 25.29 and 24.31 respectively. Unfortunately, I suffered a recurrance of some bad cramping during warm up, so didn't even make it to the start line, but Barry McDermott starting at the back end of the field, produced a quick time of 23.18 - a ride that he was well happy with considering the late start to his training this year, and so wins the club 10 mile TT trophy for 2010.
On the plus side for me, I got a bit of a tan waiting for the results to come in - I could get used to that!

Tuesday 18 May 2010

Goodwood 16th May

Festival RC had three riders take to the line at the Surrey League event at Goodwood this weekend. Mark Workman, Stuart Harris and myself.
In a large field, there were numerous attacks but with a stiff breeze blowing, none of them gained any significant time, so a sprint finish was almost inevitable.
On the last lap, Stuart stayed close to the front as the pace wound up and although being pushed off line somewhat through the final chicane, produced a strong finish to net 9th place - a great result.
Myself and Mark rolled in with the main field, with me being glad to get my first race of the season under my belt.
Hopefully get a good turnout for the next event at Goodwood on 30th May.

Thursday 6 May 2010

Surrey League

Just noticed there are no FRC riders included in the Surrey League rankings? Is there a reason for this?