Hillingdon 6th April

[Toks]

Wow Four Addiscombe riders on the Hillingdon cirucit at once Nice work guys! So Common Matt, Richard, Ed and Andrew (points, well done mate!) we're waiting to here your racing testimonies!

E/1/2/3s
Position Number Forename Surname Club Category Dist/Time
1 17 Tony Gibb www.cycle premier E 35.49
2 7 Daniel Santoni Pearson Cycles E ST
3 200 Lee Garner Team Quest/the Bike shop 3 48secs
4 3 Felix English Pearson Cycles 1J ST
5 8 Marc Wilmot Team Quest 2 ST
6 5 Mark Ottaway VC Meudon 2 ST
7 12 Vince Halpern AW Cycles 1 ST
8 226 Ben Moores Norwood Paragon 3 ST
9 10 Matthew Myers Twickenham CC 2J ST
10 208 Phil Holloway Southend Wheelers 3 ST
11 201 Brock Duncomb-Rogers Onelife Cycling Development Squad 3J ST
12 212 Sam Grant West Drayton Mountain Bike Club 3J ST
13 206 Mark Smith Welwyn Wheelers 3J ST
14 214 Jim Kent London Dynamo 3V ST
15 204 Richard Hosking Addiscombe CC 3 ST
16 213 Lawrence Carpenter Team Quest/the Bike shop 3J ST
17 211 Mike Diggins Gregarios Superclub Ciclista 3V ST
18 4 Ian Franklin Crest CC-Ilford 1 ST
19 13 Gavin Ryan London Dynamo 2 ST
20 16 Nat Spurling Finsbury Park CC 2 ST
21 218 Declan Higgins Twickenham CC 3J ST
22 15 Darren ???// East London Velo 2V ST
23 216 Tom Bell Twickenham CC 3 ST
24 215 Nils Gustafsson Inverse Racing 3 ST
25 203 Thomas Sutherland Twickenham CC 3 ST
26 222 Ed Robinson Kingston Wheelers 3 ST
27 207 Brent Skinner Met Police CC 3V ST
28 220 Matthew Day Addiscombe CC 3 ST
29 209 Lee Mead VC Meudon 3V ST
30 18 Matt Seaton Mosquito Bikes 1 ST
31 223 Nigel Smith Imperial Racing Team 3 ST
32 217 Andy Lack Kingston Wheelers 3 ST
33 2 Tristan Emptage North Road CC 2 ST
34 225 Matt Barker Team Quest/the Bike shop 3 ST
35 9 Martin Dawkins Team Quest/the Bike shop 2J ST
36 221 Anthony Purcell BC Private 3 ST
37 205 Mark Northover BC Private 3 ST
38 11 Mark Edwards Hillingdon Triathletes 2 ST
39 202 Charlie Fawke Onelife Cycling Development Squad 3J ST
40 14 John Heaton-Armstrong Cycles Dauphin 1 ST
41 210 Andrew Brown Gregarios Superclub Ciclista 3 ST
42 6 Joel Stewart Agiskoviner 1 ST
43 235 Hugo Robbins East London Velo 3 ST

Cat 4s
Position Number Forename Surname Club Category Dist/Time
1 15 Wes Swaffer Kingston Wheelers 4 25MINS
2 17 Iain Palmer Twickenham CC 4 ST
3 7 Greg Barber Charlotteville CC 4 ST
4 8 Cchristopher Irlam Loughborough Students CC 4 ST
5 28 Patrick Mc Guirk Liphook CC 4 ST
6 19 Stuart Lockyear London Phoenix 4 ST
7 10 Chris Hathaway Kingston Wheelers 4 ST
8 22 Andrew Gilbert Addiscombe CC 4 ST
9 16 Carlo Bordi Gregarios Superclub Ciclista 4 ST
10 14 Joseph Sharp Archer RC 4 ST
11 4 Mark Orphan Dulwich Paragon CC 4V ST
12 9 Lyudmil Smilenov Sigma Sport 4 ST
13 2? Rider obscured on Photo finish 4 ST
14 18 Neil Cooper AW Cycles 4 ST
15 12 Jonathan Rowland Twickenham CC 4 ST
16 1 Daniel Cottingham GS Avanti 4 ST
17 27 Ralph De Kanter BC Private Member 4 ST
18 3 Mark Maliniak BC Private Member 4 ST
19 26 Ed Osborne Addiscombe CC 4 ST
20 2 Oliver Woolland Velo Club Londres 4 ST
21 25 Moira DaPotenza AW Cycles 4L ST
22 5 Graham Pettitt Hillingdon CC 4 ST

[MattD]

Race Report 1

Now was time to start playing after my winter training , but would I be able to stay at the party long enough to enjoy !!

The start time is 7.15 pm at Hillingdon Circuit west of London….This requires a 16 mile warm up ride from the City , register on the night ( £ 10.00 entry , £ 10.00 one time series fee ) . 2 races are run each Tuesday till the end of the Summer . E123 are released first , followed a minute later by the Cat4’ ….on pain of death are either race aloud to join each other ! .

Hillingdon is a .9 mile purpose built bike circuit, relatively flat , with the bends not being too sharp enabling riders to pedal all the way round – however it resides in a particularly exposed part of London, so cross winds tend to play a major part in your approach to the ride . Finish line is up a slight incline , which at speed can feel like a cat1 climb ! .

Early season race length is dependent on the sunset time , so this week the organiser decided to run the race starting promptly at 7pm, meaning my warm up , and comfort break stop was curtailed …I must have ridden with an extra few litres of liquids !

On the off the pace was electric , and a real shock to the system , not only in terms of effort, but reminding the body and mind how to race at speed in close quarters with 40 other riders ! One of the advantages of racing early season is that progression is built in to the race series …tonite would be approx 35 mins long , with the race commissaries only advising 3 laps to go when the light fades ….. so how were my legs ?

Well , you often hear riders say that their “feelings” are good , and I have to admit that I was feeling very comfortable , and after 10 mins , I had to look at the average speed to see if this season was slower than last ….but it wasn’t !! . Excited at the prospect I may be improving , I started to move up the peleton, but made sure I was never to exposed to too much wind ….down the back straight we’re topping over 30mph , and get it wrong for a few moments , and your in the red , fighting for dear life to get back on someone’s wheel ! .

But not this time, …..infact when the lap board went to 3 , I was in that lovely zone where its all about tactics , rather than just hanging on ….( I even had time to say hello to Richard who looked super comfortable ! ) I didn’t go for the sprint outright, making sure I avoided all the kamikaze sprinters , but was pleased to finish mid bunch , with a few extra pedals left in the tank when I crossed the line …just ahead of Matt Seaton …. ( Who was most probably coasting ! )

Happy times !

[Sylv]

Sounds good Matt, I kind of regret not going now .. although at £20 for 35min of racing, with the 40km ride back home at night .. maybe not so