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Ludlow Cycling Club League update Round Seven We are now just over a a third of the way through the Ludlow Cycling Club Time Trialling Season. Dover Disney is still blazing his way through the races, setting personal bests, however he met his match in the the Club 10 Championship -The Castle Cup. Clancy Wilson stormed around the course in 22min 54seconds averaging 26.22mph, 10 seconds faster than Disney. Disney still leads the Ludlow Cycling Club League with Pete Ding and Paul Lewis in 2nd and 3rd. The overall winner on the day was Simon Harradine from CC Topp, in a time of 21mins averaging 28m.57mph. Back from long term injury was Andrew Alston in 21st in a time of 24min 55seconds beating Mark Warren ( LCC & Ludlow Triathlon Club ) by 17 seconds. First lady back was Sarah Lloyd Stephens ( Hereford Wheelers ) in a disappointing time of 26 mins 28 seconds. Sarah's time was was a minute slower than the prevoius week.. Edward Wood, LCC's newest club member raised over £10,000 for Air Ambulance by recently completing the Lands End to John O'Groats cycle ride and celebrating his 60th Birthday on route.
Regards LUDLOW CC & DELSERV 10 MILE OPEN TIME TRIAL - 15TH MAY 2010 Prize winners and details below
To download the full results sheet click HERE LUDLOW TIME TRIAL LEAGUE - ROUNDS 3 & 4 Round 3 - K45/11.4 Hilly 2 Lap The Sheet 20th April 2010 Round Three, where conditions were cold and windy, was the 2 lap 11.4m Hilly Circuit on the 20th April. This was three out of three for Dover Disney putting in a great performance and PB with a time of 28:13 minutes averaging 24.24mph. His two nearest club members and rivals were Clancy Wilson and Pete Ding, both over a minute slower than Disney. Usually, Clancy Wilson and Pete Ding would be in contention for this circuit but Disney's loss of 2 stone has really shown that weight loss increases your speed dramatically. The bad news for Clancy Wilson and Pete Ding, they have no more weight to lose! Newcomer and junior, Harry Collyer, did a good time and we look forward to seeing Harry get faster during the season. Leading lady was Louise Reynolds who averaged 21.10mph. Round Four was the fast R10/6A Leominster North 10 mile. Over all winner was Climb on Bike’s Phil Mason with a cracking 21:59 minute averaging 27:29. Ludlow’s Dover Disney came in at 23:07 minutes which means that he now has four out of four wins in the Ludlow Club League. Steve Bent is back from illness and is slowly improving with a 24:17 minute time. Paul Lewis beat his brother in law Ian Chubb by 31 seconds so knowing Ian, he will use that as a motivation for the rest of the season. Its only four races into the season but can Dover Disney win them all?! Ludlow Cycling Club is looking for support on Tuesday evening for time keepers. Due to illness of one our club stalwarts, Mick Davey and support from his wife Jacquie, we are looking for members to assist Fiona with the time keeping. All queries should be directed to our club secretary, Pete Ding.
LUDLOW TIME TRIAL LEAGUE NEW SEASONS STARTS Round 1 - R10/6B Brimfield 13th April 2010 The new slim line Dover Disney has had an impressive start to the season winning both rounds of the Ludlow TT season. He stormed to victory on the 10 mile course at Brimfield and followed it up 5 days later with an impressive victory over Peter Ding on the 25 mile loop to Leominster. Together with Clancy Wilson; James Grifiths, Neal Deller, Andy Mear and Pete Ding he has successfully spearheaded the club’s early spring campaign in the Shropshire county series which sees Ludlow at the head of affairs after 3 events. In Round Two on the day, warm conditions and light winds allowed Disney to record a personal best time of 59 mins 31 for the 25 mile course an average speed of 25.20 MPH, second place went to Pete Ding in 59.58, a time which in previous seasons would have been good enough for first. This pair were the only riders to break the hour ahead of Epic Cycles Simon Ward & Hereford Wheelers George Burgess. Third Ludlow Rider was Clancy Wilson in a time of 1:01:40 Ludlow Cycling Club are looking for support on time keeping this year as one of the stalwarts of the club, Mick Davey is unwell. We wish him all the best. Should you either want to get involved in Time Trialling or support the club, please contact the Club Secretary Peter Ding (pete_ding@msn.com).
END TO END CHALLENGE New member Edward Wood is making the following appeal for cycling sponsorship on his End To End Cycle Challenge in May 2010. To download the origional document including the Remittance slip click HERE!
LUDLOW CYCLING CLUB 2. Winter / Spring Reliability Programme 2010 The Reliability programme has now been set giving riders looking to gain early season fitness the chance to test themselves against others - or against a reasonable time limit. These popular, low cost events attract riders of all standards who work together around a fixed route. At some point the pace will split up, with riders organising themselves into smaller groups according to ability to get home within the limit. For anyone unfamiliar with a course a route map is available. All riders are welcome. The Ludlow Reliability Ride will be free of charge to signed-up Club members (first or second claim). It will be £5.00 to non members. This includes a free cup of tea/coffee or squash for all riders in the Ludlow Leisure Centre café after the event.
3. Welsh Weekend 27 & 28 Feb 2010 The format will be similar to previous years with a car/minibus assist and a 60-70 mile ride each way to a hotel in North Wales. E: stephen@bentstours.com This is a series of 16 Time Trail events held throughout Shropshire from, March to September. 5. Club Evening Time Trial League The full programme is now set and a print out can be found in the right hand side menu under “evening League 2010”. First event is on Tuesday 13th April Start 6:30 on the Brimfield (R10/6B) by-pass, one of the fastest courses in Shropshire and the South Wales District. We have again a special recession busting discount for signed-up Club members (first or second claim) with race fees held at £10 per season for all 25 events. (£3.00 per event for non members) 6. Club Opens Ludlow CC runs 2 Open 10 mile Time Trials each year. For 2010 these are held on: Saturday 17th March 2010 Brimfield By-pass R/106B 10 mile course These are open to all riders over 14 years of age. (Tandems excluded.) 7. Parker – Shropshire Time Trail Series A series of 16 rides starting on Saturday 27th March on the Waters Upton Course north of Wellington. Look out for full details in due course. 8. Sprint Triathlons 9. Come & Try It Event This will take place on Tuesday 15th June 2010. 10. Sportives 11. Duo Normand Back by popular demand after 1 year’s absence we will be sending several pairs of rides to the Duo Normand in late September. This is an event not be missed! The two-up Team Time Trail is ridden on closed roads over 35 miles with over 300 teams taking part, including elite riders from the Tour de France and other professional International race stars. A grandstand in the local town is erected mainly for the benefit of the Ludlow Cycling Club to encourage cheering and heckling of other participants. An “all things French” weekend (Friday to Monday inclusive). 12. Ghent Six A visit is in the outline planning stage for November 2010 to Ghent to follow the hugely popular Ghent 6 day event which takes place in Belgium. ********************************************************* Ludlow Cycling Winter Club Runs 2009-2010 Our Organised Winter Club runs are back! We ride the pace of the slowest rider in our group and stop for a break at a variety of cafes throughout the whole area. We publish our weekly ride towards the end of the working week so you can plan to join us at the start or somewhere along the route taken. Brompton World Cup Article by Robyn Deller Dad, that’s Mr Neal Deller to you, Dover, our support team (Jacqui and Rob) and I set off, somewhat under duress in my case, for the beautiful Bleheim Palace and our first Brompton World Championship at a truly ungodly hour on the first Sunday morning in October (Dover was suspiciously chirpy considering the hour). A couple of hours later and feeling almost human we arrived to find the event in full swing. In the car park everyone was busy prepping for their race; in the case of BWC riders that meant last minute costume adjustments and unfolding their weapon of choice, but the time trialers dressed in Lycra, warming up on their turbo trainers looked rather too serious. We hadn’t arrived in the requisite attire, so each of us proceeded to change, it should be noted that in a crowded car park/field this is a highly skilled, shuffle manoeuvre. After an amazingly painless registration, we entered the event paddock and beheld a truly beautiful sight, Bromptons everywhere, every colour of the rainbow. The dress code required shirt, tie, and suit jacket to be worn, and at the car we thought we’d got the dress code down. Dad looked pretty dapper in his cream suit, so long as you ignored the three quarter length trousers, Dover looked rather like an over-grown school boy, and I managed to look almost as scruffy as I did at school, needless to say we were outshone by a fair few enthusiastic BWC old hands. There were bumble bees, tail coats, fishnets and stilettos, top hats, psychedelic pyjamas and hot pink suits to mention but a few. A little while before the race we started a leisurely warm up, pootling up and down a rather short strip of drive. It wasn’t a very effective warm up but it was good practice in collision avoidance. As the crucial time drew near we folded our bikes and left them on our designated spots within the pens we had been allocated to. We stood to attention for the race instructions, where there seemed to be a fairly broad spectrum of entrants gathered, all ages and both sexes were well represented. We were grouped in pens of one hundred to be set off in one minute intervals. The air was electric with the anticipation of 670 oddballs chomping at the bit when the first horn went and the first group was set free. For safety reasons, having unfolded our bikes, we were told to walk, not run, and not to mount our bikes until on the road. It didn’t matter how long we took to get started, a very clever timing chip provided at registration, ensured that the clock didn’t start on us until we reached the track. The excitement proved too much for quite a few in the first group, Dad and Dover among them, and all chaos ensued, thus setting a bad example for the rest of us. Amazingly everyone appeared to get off unharmed. I had been assured by Dad, when he told me we were doing the race, that the course would be practically flat. He was wrong. We had to do two laps of a rather scenic 4-ish mile circuit starting in front of the palace then circling a lake behind it; there were several hills. The weather was kind, and it stayed mild and dry with barely a breeze for the duration of the race. I pedalled hard from the get go, not wanting to end up last, and immediately regretted it when I got to the first hill. There was rather a nifty decent from here which I enjoyed a bit too much and consequently suffered on the next hill that was considerably nastier than the first. Mr Bent has suggested that I should make the most of the opportunity to rest on the descents, he is undoubtedly right, but that’s just not as much fun. I thought it wasn’t unreasonable to request a tow from a chap who did not appear to have noticed the existence of the hill, for some reason he thought I was joking. Eventually I made it up under my own steam, and to my surprise found the second lap easier, I even enjoyed it, I think. Sandwiches and sports drinks were provided post race and very much appreciated in the wait for the final presentations. There turned out to be less than .3 of a second between Roberto Heras in first place and Michael Hutchinson in second, Julia Shaw took first place for the women. I had been chatting to Michael Hutchinson in our pen before the start of the race and was considerably cooler about it than Dover was when he took advantage of a photo op with Heras after the results presentation. That was largely because I had no idea who he was. Although none of the Ludlow Lounge Lizards ended up on the podium, we gave a pretty decent account of ourselves. Dover was second Male vet, at 25 mins 56, Dad came in as 10th male vet with 27 mins dead, and I finished 38th female senior with a time of 35 mins 24, our combined times placed us in 6th place for the team rankings, which I was fairly chuffed with. For a full list of official timings go to http://www.brompton.co.uk/bwc/2009/. All in all a very successful day, quintessential British eccentricity at its very best, and looking forward to next year!  Team Ludlow Lounge Lizards Dover Disney; Robyn Deller and Neal Deller
Robyn Deller LUDLOW CC TIME TRIAL LEAGUE Well after 21 competitive events with almost 450 individual rides taking place it is all over. League Champion – Steve Bent All change at the top. Steve’s first championship victory – well done. Other prizes go to: Thanks for taking part and providing the superb level of competition. Many thanks to Fi, Mick and Jacquie and Ian for help with the time-keeping, start and finish. |
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