President's 10

[Andrew G]

A very enjoyable morning mixing with the ACC.

I rode my new fixed with a pair of fancy / clown wheels. The rear (a Spinergy Rev-X) only cost £35 from ebay and had a knackered lockring thread, so I glued the sprocket on and tried to remember not to use my legs for braking. I was therefore hoping to make it round in one piece without it exploding and showering me with carbon.

Used an 86" gear and guessed at about 26 and a half minutes on it. The gear worked out nicely and felt good all the way round to finish in 26:21 (I think), just holding Stu off on his impressive debut 10. I realised on the return I'd been pushing hard enough on the way out so think a 26 on that gear is doable.

Well done to Ajay for being the only one to ride in fancy dress, riding up and down the DC dressed as a roman centurion complete with helmet and flowing cape.

Dominic won for the 2nd year running with a fantastic sub 22 and a new PB.

Mr G Sr got in some good training for the Redmon GP, was lanterne rouge but still beat his age standard by a fair amount and got a cake to take home .

Thanks everyone.

[Stu Merckx Man]

yeh i really enjoyed that.

not quite my debut, i did the presisdents 10 last year and then the one against norward paragon.

i chose to try and do it scientifically using my heart rate as guidence to make sure i didnt push myself to hard on the way out.

so for the flats i was on 93/94%
for the drags- 95/96%
for the down hills- 94/95%
and finishing at 98%

seemed to work ok and i managed to give it some welly on the last 1/4 mile or so.

i new pb for me by over 3 minutes. last year getting 26.38, this year 23.25 (i think), so with a huge handicap i won that aspect of the time trial.

anyone got the results?

[Snoop Doug]

Stuff the results, the Romans are coming Nice one Super Ajay, wish I'd been there to see it. Anyone get a photo?

Snoop

[Jon H]

Results on scratch:

1 Dominic Lowe 21.59
2 Steve Davies 22.47
3 Jon Hemming 23.16
4 Mark McLaughlin 23.20
5 Steve Hehir 23.22
6 Stuart Chamberlayne (J) 23.26
7 Steve Broomfield 23.49
8 Andrew Ridsdale 24.08
9 Terry Hill 25.03
10 Brian Robinson 26.18
11 Andrew Green 26.21
12 Paul Dewis 26.25
13 Paul Blackburn 26.30
14 Peter Smith 26.42
15 Carole Heritage 27.43
16 John Lovell 27.59
17 Ajay Khandelwal 28.25
18 Sam Camden (J) 28.30
19 Simon Osborne 28.36
20 Jon Camden 30.46
21 Roy Green 31.23

Results on handicap:

1 Stuart Chamberlayne (J) 16.56
2 Paul Dewis 18.25
3 Steve Broomfield 18.49
4 Carole Heritage 19.03
5 Simon Osborne 19.06
6 Peter Smith 19.22
7 Dominic Lowe 19.29
8 Mark McLaughlin 19.50
9 Sam Camden (J) 19.50
10 Terry Hill 20.13
11 Roy Green 20.13
12 Steve Davies 20.17
13 John Lovell 20.29
14 Brian Robinson 20.38
15 Paul Blackburn 20.40
16 Andrew Green 21.01
17 Ajay Khandelwal 21.25
18 Jon Camden 21.46
19 Jon Hemming 22.36

[Snoop Doug]

Hey Dominic well done that's motoring! Do I also detect another PB for Lance's Thong, by about 50 odd sec if I remember rightly...? I'd better get me finger out

Snoop

[richv]

Well done Dominic a 21 on that course is a good ride.

Top rides from Stu and Sam - it's good to see the younger members giving the oldies a hard time.

[Roy Green]

My great achievement was to hold up the rest of the field, as Lanterne Rouge. For that, I won one of Joyce's fruit cakes. Thanks a lot, Joyce. The cake is lovely, and disappearing as fast as Carole did after she caught me for 2 minutes just at the turn. She'll be well past that time you mention, Sean, before too long Now all I have to do for this season is to hang on to Andrew's wheel in the Redmon 2-up.

Roy

[mrP(Boonen)VT]

[quote]I'd better get me finger out