Wigmore Hill Climb

[Andrew G]

1st Pete Tadros Ingear Quickvit RT 3-08.5
2nd Pnut Arnold API Metro 3-10.9
3rd Scarlet Parker Rollapaluza CC 3-22.9
4th Sylvain Garde Addiscombe CC 3-25.3

Superb result Sylv .

[Sylv]

Just got home from running a half-marathon, as 3 and a half minutes is not exactly a day's worth of effort is it

Took me a little while to find where you got the results from Andrew but I got there

Well that's another thing i have in common with Wiggins - also got 4th yesterday at the Kingston Wheelers Leith Hill (for 0.3s) http://www.kingstonwheelers.co.uk/news.shtml

Funny that I should be beaten by a man named Pnuts - I managed to stay off the beer last night but almost overdosed on fried peanuts, had a mighty stomach ache afterwards ..

Leith Hill got the pacing pretty right, but when I saw the big crowd gathered at one corner I thought the finish was near and gave a big push, alas there was quite a long way to go and another bunch of crowd gathered at the proper finish and I suffered in the final stages, not perfect. Still I was glad to beat Rob "monster" (says Tony) Enslin. Might do the London Dynamo climb on same course.

Wigmore pacing was pretty spot on, saw some people starting waaay too fast, I was just spinning waiting for the steep part, then it kicked, got encouragement from the crowds saying I was the fastest looking so far, as I was hoping I had enough left to shift to big ring for the last section, but lost a few seconds as it took a couple attempts to get it to shift under load. In retrospect maybe could have gone a little harder on first section before the kick, but very hard to say. Scarlett was on a fixed btw. Tadros awesome!

[quote="KW site"]Race organiser Tim Lawn also rode. "My "cunning plan" of setting myself of first worked as I was sitting on top of the podium for nearly half an hour before Sylvain Garde went under four minutes and smashed my time by nearly 20 seconds", said Tim.

[Antloony]

Well done Sylv, great result.

[Toks]

I hate you now Sylv you're making me feel very un-athletic! Well done dude

[Antloony]

[quote="Toks"]I hate you now Sylv you're making me feel very un-athletic! Well done dude

[Sylv]

[quote="Antloony"]He can't be that good Toks, he only managed a half marathon

[Snoop Doug]

Great work - anyone got a good pic of Sylv killing himself up a hill?? Would like to send something to the croydon advertiser on this and the SCCU Rawson

[quote="Andrew G"][quote="Sylv"] Tadros awesome!

[Andrew G]

[quote="-Adam-"]
Did you notice how I'm down as a junior for the afternoon, but not the morning, Andrew!?

[-Adam-]

I'm not sure where he's gotten junior from anyway, it definately doesn't say junoir anywhere on my form. A bit like organisors who seem convinced I ought to spell my surname ...erill... instead of ...erell!

If it weren't for the one other junior on the start list, I'd have kept quiet. As there is a real junior on the start list, I shall let them know. I wouldn't want to steal candy from a baby now, would I!

[Sylv]

[quote="Sean Hogan"]http://www.flickr.com/photos/londoncyclesport/3982855055/#comment72157622395729939

I didn't realise the roads were open to regular traffic That's crazy to do an event like this with cars behind you.

Sean

[Andrew G]

[quote="Sean Hogan"]
I didn't realise the roads were open to regular traffic That's crazy to do an event like this with cars behind you.

Sean

[Doug]

[quote="-Adam-"]I'm not sure where he's gotten junior from anyway, it definately doesn't say junoir anywhere on my form. A bit like organisors who seem convinced I ought to spell my surname ...erill... instead of ...erell!

If it weren't for the one other junior on the start list, I'd have kept quiet. As there is a real junior on the start list, I shall let them know. I wouldn't want to steal candy from a baby now, would I!

[Doug]

[quote="Sean Hogan"]http://www.flickr.com/photos/londoncyclesport/3982855055/#comment72157622395729939

I didn't realise the roads were open to regular traffic That's crazy to do an event like this with cars behind you.

Sean