ACC evening 10, 23rd June

[Jon H]

Results:

Jack n Jill
1st Ben Instone Scientific Coaching.com
Chloe Thomas ADDISCOMBE CC 23.56

2nd Matt Chapman ADDISCOMBE CC
Robyn Yates ADDISCOMBE CC 26.29

3rd Robert Royle Evatt ADDISCOMBE CC
Carole Heritage ADDISCOMBE CC 27.03

4th Jeff Hewett ADDISCOMBE CC
Kate Hewett ADDISCOMBE CC 27.59

5th Ed Thruston ADDISCOMBE CC
Jenny Hewett ADDISCOMBE CC 29.32

Grand Prix de Gents
1st Adam Cotterell In-gear development squad
Dave Kennet Norwood Paragon 21.42

2nd Andrew Green ADDISCOMBE CC
Antony Leeson ADDISCOMBE CC 24.04

3rd Marek Siwicki ADDISCOMBE CC
Ben Fancourt ADDISCOMBE CC 24.30

4th Steve Hehir GB cycles
Terry Hill ADDISCOMBE CC 25.12

5th Ian Pringle ADDISCOMBE CC
Tony Pringle ADDISCOMBE CC 32.38

6th Marco Faimali ADDISCOMBE CC
Alan Bloomfield ADDISCOMBE CC 33.34

2-up TTT
1st Rob Taylor TSN 23.39
Rob Crozier TSN

2nd Sylvain Garde ADDISCOMBE CC 23.43
Serge Hunt ADDISCOMBE CC

3rd Jon Camden ADDISCOMBE CC 28.04
Sam Camden ADDISCOMBE CC

Solo
1st Jim Burdett TSN 23.04
2nd Toks Adesanya ADDISCOMBE CC 24.36
3rd Keith Watkins ADDISCOMBE CC 27.10
4th Nick de Meyer ADDISCOMBE CC 27.31

[Toks]

Big thanks to Jon, Joyce, keith, Michelle, Tim, Chloe (that cake was wicked!1) and everyone who helped and competed yesterday - that was good fun. I still can't seem to ride hard enough in these TT's. I could quite easily have ridden another one at the end. Now when I saw Adam at the end I knew he'd ridden hard

[Antloony]

Just to echo Toks words and say a big thank you to all those who helped and rolled up to the start line, great to see so many people and friendly faces out on what was a a lovely warm summers evening.

Biggest thanks of the night go's out to my partner in crime Mr who rode a blinder, I even had to cut my phone call to my mum short as he was going that fast at times she couldn't hear me over the noise of his disc wheel.

Serious time now. I can see why he's getting some good results and PB's of late if last night is anything to go by, he really did tow me round well and rode a great TT, just a handfull of seconds behind the 2 fastest 2 up times. Well done comrade, bloody good effort and great fun.

My only complaint is why are you so bloody small, I might have well just rode round on my own for all the shelter you gave me with you being on your TT bike.

Well done to Sonic for making it round and coming in under the 30 mins, good going for a newbie to the road and TT scene, now get yourself on a club run, work your way up through the groups and you'll soon be flying.

[Andrew G]

Yep thanks to the above and Snoop at the turn, arrrr.

You should've ridden on the drops then Ant and you'd have got more shelter . I thought you were meant to be a sprinter, when I said go at the end it took you ages to get your wheel round.

Well done to Keith who looked very nervous at the start, but that's a good time for your first TT and that course takes a bit of learning so you know where the drags are.

Also top marks to Al and Marco who rode the Gents GP on mountain bikes complete with 2.5 inch knobbly tyres, madness.

[Antloony]

[quote="Andrew G"]I thought you were meant to be a sprinter, when I said go at the end it took you ages to get your wheel round.

[Keith]

I handed Sylv's camera back at the end, so I don't know what the photos I took came out like.

However, here's some that Michelle took at the start....

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[Sylv]

Some good pics in my camera Keith( including one of Ant towering over Andrew), I will try do them before the weekend

Cheers Jon and all the helpers. I still don't like that course!

Come on Chloe how did it feel riding a 24" 10?

[quote="Jon Hemming"]
3rd Keith Watkins ADDISCOMBE CC 27.10

[sonic909]

Also where will the photos from the guys with the fancy cameras be uploaded to?

[djembi]

[quote]Also, to the lady that offered me some cake – that was awesome! Thanks

[Jon H]

[quote="sonic909"]When are the AAC doing this course again?

[quote="djembi"][quote]Also, to the lady that offered me some cake – that was awesome! Thanks

[Ben]

Thanks to all the helpers and organisers for making it an enjoyable event. Also thanks to Marek for towing me round.

[Michelle]

[ThePinkDreamMachine]

now for a proper race report...

My first choice of the lovely Dave Kennett was taken, George was away working and Huw’s legendary distaste for anything featuring pointy hats means he can’t go anywhere near the A24 without “one of his heads coming on,” so I found myself a little restricted when looking for a speedy enough partner.

Until that is I bumped into the nicest chap in time trialling, Ben Instone, at a race a few weeks previously. Ben is a TT legend who recently broke all sorts of records on various sporting courses. “Now wait a minute” I hear you say “how did she manage that? Is this not the equivalent of Andrew Green doing a two up with Bradley Wiggins?” Well it took a cake, a very large cake, and a promise to pedal as hard as I could as he tells me his legs are physiologically incapable of propelling him at anything less than 24mph… even a on a rest day.


So we rocked up to the G10/42, I completed my part of the bargain and handed over a huge cake, and despite having just 30 mins before our start time the 6’6” giant, still in his flip flops and daywear, proceeded to sample a brick-sized slice of this hefty carrot cake, just to check it was worth turning up and riding for. Just as well we were doing this for a laugh as he was now probably a stone heavier. So, riding his ‘winter’ bike which was probably still worth more than all the bikes in our house put together, we rolled over to the start line.

Note: Ben has no warm-up, he’s ready to roll.

His last tip before we headed off was to never touch my breaks and to “scream if you want to go faster.” The next 23min 54 seconds was a heart-pounding blur of dual carnage way, sorry ‘carriage’ way. Twice I had to shout “Oi Ben come back! ... Please.” There was no need for the drops in this race, with Ben being almost a metre taller than me I could practically ride sitting upright and not feel any wind resistance. At the half way turn Ben underestimated my newly found cornering skills and I nearly went flying into the back of him (well the back of his knees anyway) hitting the brakes and screaming.

Re-composing myself we were off again, homeward bound with Ben shouting at me, telling me to hurry up and not be so lazy. I’m sure I heard “call your self a 2nd cat” or maybe that was just Huw in my head screaming at me all the way from Dunsfold.’

He lies does Ben Instone! Digging deep up the hill to the petrol station on the right, he shouted “this is the last hill” but as we rolled over the top I could see Kate in the distance going up ANOTHER HILL, shouting at her dad to “go faster”.
I also noticed Ben waving to the competition on the other side of the road!!! Powered by a desperate need to just get off my bike, I got my lazy arse in gear and we floored it up and down the last hill, just catching Kate in time for a nice little chat as we crossed the line together.

In the car park I produced another big cake and shared it round with my lovely fellow Addsicombers. By now Ben was on his 4th piece, and I distributed the rest of the cake, saving one bit for President Joyce. Stupidly I handed Ben the tin to hold for a moment while I changed my shoes and in a split second the saved cake was on route to his mouth. Luckily there’s a good 3 feet from Ben’s hand to his mouth so there was time to jump in and save it.

lots of fun all round

chloe