The long forgotten sensation that is "summer" returned for Round 9 of the 2013 Briercliffe 10 series, which witnessed overcast but warm and still conditions. It promised to be a good evening for racing and 18 riders came out to try their luck against the clock.
Ryan Witchell continued to impress and clocked the fastest time of the evening with a 23:31, which is his best around the challenging Briercliffe 10 course.
Showing posts with label July 2012. Show all posts
Showing posts with label July 2012. Show all posts
Tuesday, 18 June 2013
Tuesday, 31 July 2012
31/07/2012 - Briercliffe 10 Results
In Olympic week, the Nomads took athletic competition to new heights with Nick Hickman upping the ante in this year's "Brompton Fold Off". Ahead of the World Championships, Hickman's battle with Nick Senechal for global superiority has now reached Ali versus Frasier; Bjorg versus McEnroe; Ovett versus Coe proportions.In Senechal's absence Hickman has delivered a time that will go down in history as almost unbreakable. Indeed, Hickman's "31 dead" tonight will surely be investigated by the UCI, IOC and CAMRA.
The Press Room may have been empty and the number of spectators limited to two men, a dog and a lost rambler but Danny Boyle must be ruing the day he did not include the quintessentially English Bromptoneers in the Opening Ceremony in East London last week. "Sir Paul who?" was all that could be heard echoing around the Southill environs.
In the competition for people who do not build model railways or catalogue their "screws and bolt collections" in to size and length order, Jason Stuart rode to an imperious first place with a time of 23.26.
Despite a course PB for the season the Nomads' Simon Doyle was pipped to third place in his ongoing duel with Beds Road CC's Graham Laming. Laming getting the edge in the 10 series again by five seconds. Clive Collins claims another improvement on the course for 2012 and Jon Traynor came home ahead of the out of sorts Wilson Junior. A temporary dip in form for the Biggleswade lad ahead ofmajor TV celebrity being spotted as the resident loonies watching the Olympic TT.
Psychic Nigel Wilson correctly predicted the 1-2-3 for the Wiggo Gold Run. He will be provding the Euromillions numbers and also the answer to the meaning of life later in the week.
Thanks to Frank Turner for Timekeeping and also Pushing Off. There's no end to this young lad's talents.
Results
BRCC = Beds Road Cycle Club
CCA = CC Ashwell
The Press Room may have been empty and the number of spectators limited to two men, a dog and a lost rambler but Danny Boyle must be ruing the day he did not include the quintessentially English Bromptoneers in the Opening Ceremony in East London last week. "Sir Paul who?" was all that could be heard echoing around the Southill environs.
In the competition for people who do not build model railways or catalogue their "screws and bolt collections" in to size and length order, Jason Stuart rode to an imperious first place with a time of 23.26.
Despite a course PB for the season the Nomads' Simon Doyle was pipped to third place in his ongoing duel with Beds Road CC's Graham Laming. Laming getting the edge in the 10 series again by five seconds. Clive Collins claims another improvement on the course for 2012 and Jon Traynor came home ahead of the out of sorts Wilson Junior. A temporary dip in form for the Biggleswade lad ahead of
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| Wilson, Witchell and assorted vowels and consonants. |
Psychic Nigel Wilson correctly predicted the 1-2-3 for the Wiggo Gold Run. He will be provding the Euromillions numbers and also the answer to the meaning of life later in the week.
Thanks to Frank Turner for Timekeeping and also Pushing Off. There's no end to this young lad's talents.
Results
| Jason Stuart | 23:26 CCA | |
| Graham Laming | 24:13 BRCC | |
| Simon Doyle | 24:18 | |
| Justin Lane | 25.12 CCA | |
| Peter Gell | 25:28 BRCC | |
| Clive Collins | 28.17 | |
| Jon Traynor | 28.23 | |
| Ben Wilson (J) | 28.24 | |
| Nigel Wilson | 28.31 | |
| Nick Hickman | 31:00 ( |
BRCC = Beds Road Cycle Club
CCA = CC Ashwell
Tuesday, 10 July 2012
10/07/2012 - Briercliffe 10 Results
Tonight proved be be full of surprises and close fought battles.
The first major surprise was that despite wide spread consensus from Britain's meteorologists that it would rain, it stayed dry. It was reported at the end of the event that there was a monsoon in neighbouring Stotfold, so the weather gods were obviously smiling on the Nomads tonight. (Shame they didn't last Sunday - SD)
The second surprise was that Andrew Herbert was knocked off the top spot by a brilliant ride by Ben Wilson, with the pair being separated by a meagre two seconds. Another closely fought battle occurred between the "best of the rest" as 25 seconds separated positions three to six.
Nick Hickman decided to ride the event on his Brompton Bike (A folding bike typically used by city commuters for those who are non bike savvy) in preparation for the Brompton World Championships (Details here) in late August. His time included assembly which reportedly took 18 seconds, which is quicker than he can drink beer (see last week's TT report for details). Nick will ride the rest of the time trials on his Brompton, so we look forward to see his progress.
Well done to Stephen Oliver who came out to ride his first Time Trial, we look forward to seeing you on the course again.
There was a bit of a downer to the event as Jason Stewart (CCA) was very nearly knocked off his bike by a (insert preferred phrase from Bradley Wiggins' press conference here) driver in a Land Rover who overtook Jason in Old Warden and preceded to slam on the breaks resulting in Jason having to lock up his wheels and slide sideways just missing the vehicle. He had to break so hard the he wore through his rear tyre to the thread which caused the tyre to deflate. Fortunately he managed to stay upright and avoid serious injury. Hopefully this is just a one off incident by a careless driver just passing through the village.
Thanks to Frank Turner for Timekeeping and to Clive Collins, Richard Bland and Geoff Perry for carrying out Pushing Off duties and assisting Frank.
BRCC = Beds Road Cycle Club
iC = iCycle
CCA = Cycle Club Ashwell
The first major surprise was that despite wide spread consensus from Britain's meteorologists that it would rain, it stayed dry. It was reported at the end of the event that there was a monsoon in neighbouring Stotfold, so the weather gods were obviously smiling on the Nomads tonight. (Shame they didn't last Sunday - SD)
The second surprise was that Andrew Herbert was knocked off the top spot by a brilliant ride by Ben Wilson, with the pair being separated by a meagre two seconds. Another closely fought battle occurred between the "best of the rest" as 25 seconds separated positions three to six.
Nick Hickman decided to ride the event on his Brompton Bike (A folding bike typically used by city commuters for those who are non bike savvy) in preparation for the Brompton World Championships (Details here) in late August. His time included assembly which reportedly took 18 seconds, which is quicker than he can drink beer (see last week's TT report for details). Nick will ride the rest of the time trials on his Brompton, so we look forward to see his progress.
Well done to Stephen Oliver who came out to ride his first Time Trial, we look forward to seeing you on the course again.
There was a bit of a downer to the event as Jason Stewart (CCA) was very nearly knocked off his bike by a (insert preferred phrase from Bradley Wiggins' press conference here) driver in a Land Rover who overtook Jason in Old Warden and preceded to slam on the breaks resulting in Jason having to lock up his wheels and slide sideways just missing the vehicle. He had to break so hard the he wore through his rear tyre to the thread which caused the tyre to deflate. Fortunately he managed to stay upright and avoid serious injury. Hopefully this is just a one off incident by a careless driver just passing through the village.
Thanks to Frank Turner for Timekeeping and to Clive Collins, Richard Bland and Geoff Perry for carrying out Pushing Off duties and assisting Frank.
| Ben Wilson (J) | 24:00 | |
| Andrew Herbert | 24:02 | |
| Paul Ambrose | 25:41 iC | |
| James Gomm | 25:57 | |
| Ryan Witchell (J) | 26:05 | |
| Peter Gell | 26:06 BRCC | |
| Jaouade Izzo | 27:03 BRCC | |
| Jon Traynor | 29:20 | |
| Nigel Wilson | 29:34 | |
| Nick Hickman | 32:19 | |
| Stephen Oliver | 38:48 | |
| Jason Stuart | DNF CCA |
BRCC = Beds Road Cycle Club
iC = iCycle
CCA = Cycle Club Ashwell
Friday, 6 July 2012
Sport Everywhere - 07 July 2012
Hitchin Nomads will be exhibiting at the Sport Everywhere event in Hitchin on Saturday, 7th July 2012. A range of local sporting clubs and associations will be converging on the green by Church House, Churchyard (by Hitchin Market) for a day of informal demonstrations, displays and "come and try it" activities.
Nomads will be running some sprint challenges as well as promoting the Club and our activities throughout the day.
The event will run from 1000-1500h.
Update - and to prove we went....
Nomads will be running some sprint challenges as well as promoting the Club and our activities throughout the day.
The event will run from 1000-1500h.
Update - and to prove we went....
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| Frank Turner, Nick and Jamie Senechal, Andrew Stevenson, James "Spartacus" Spence and Simon Doyle. The acceptable faces of road cycling. |
Tuesday, 3 July 2012
03/07/2012 - David Gudgin 25 Results
July saw no improvement in the weather, but the final David Gudgin 25 had the best turn out so far with 8 riders, perhaps inspired by the start of the "Le Tour" at the weekend. Although the rain held off for the event, a previous shower had left the course wet.
Leading the way was Ben Wilson with the fastest time this season for the evening David Gudgin series with an agonisingly close to a sub hour ride of 1:00:10. It later transpired that Ben had stopped half way round to check his bike for a phantom puncture which cost him sub-hour glory.
Deciding that riding a 25 mile time trial was not enough of a challenge, Clive Collins and Nick Hickman decided to add a beer stop at the pub in Old Warden to sink half a pint on the second lap. It was Nick who set the benchmark with a drinking time of twenty seconds, with Clive trailing him by a further six seconds. It is expected that these times will be reduced as the season goes on with some specialised training sessions.
Thanks to Frank Turner for carrying out dual roles of Timekeeping (both riding and drinking) and Pushing Off.
BRCC = Beds Road Cycle Club
FT = Freedom Tri
Leading the way was Ben Wilson with the fastest time this season for the evening David Gudgin series with an agonisingly close to a sub hour ride of 1:00:10. It later transpired that Ben had stopped half way round to check his bike for a phantom puncture which cost him sub-hour glory.
Deciding that riding a 25 mile time trial was not enough of a challenge, Clive Collins and Nick Hickman decided to add a beer stop at the pub in Old Warden to sink half a pint on the second lap. It was Nick who set the benchmark with a drinking time of twenty seconds, with Clive trailing him by a further six seconds. It is expected that these times will be reduced as the season goes on with some specialised training sessions.
Thanks to Frank Turner for carrying out dual roles of Timekeeping (both riding and drinking) and Pushing Off.
| Ben Wilson (J) | 1:00:10 | |
| Neil Fraser | 1:00:49 | |
| Ryan Witchell (J) | 1:06:00 | |
| James Gomm | 1:07:09 | |
| Jaouade Izzo | 1:09:40 BRCC | |
| Nick Hickman | 1:13:02 | |
| Clive Collins | 1:15:23 | |
| Charlie Pugh (J) | 1:23:15 FT |
BRCC = Beds Road Cycle Club
FT = Freedom Tri
Saturday, 30 June 2012
July events
Sunday Club Runs (all start at 9am from Hitchin Market Square)
1 July: Wimpole Hall
http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=3025430
8 July : The Hub, Redbourn
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15 July: Danish Camp
http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=2514561
22 July: Toddington Garden Centre
http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=3025501
29 July: Grafham Water
http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=2961546
Please check Facebook for details of any ad hoc Saturday runs taking place in July.
Club Time Trials
First rider off 1900h near Southill except for the Interclub 25 which is on a Sunday morning (first rider 0800h).
03 July: David Gudgin 25 1U/25 (4of4)
10 July: Briercliffe 10 1U/10
15 July: Interclub 25 (CCA) F14/25 Contact Neil JJ Fraser to enter.
17 July: Briercliffe 10 1U/10
24 July: Briercliffe 10 1U/10
31 July: Briercliffe 10 1U/10
1 July: Wimpole Hall
http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=3025430
8 July : The Hub, Redbourn
http://
15 July: Danish Camp
http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=2514561
22 July: Toddington Garden Centre
http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=3025501
29 July: Grafham Water
http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=2961546
Please check Facebook for details of any ad hoc Saturday runs taking place in July.
Club Time Trials
First rider off 1900h near Southill except for the Interclub 25 which is on a Sunday morning (first rider 0800h).
03 July: David Gudgin 25 1U/25 (4of4)
10 July: Briercliffe 10 1U/10
15 July: Interclub 25 (CCA) F14/25 Contact Neil JJ Fraser to enter.
17 July: Briercliffe 10 1U/10
24 July: Briercliffe 10 1U/10
31 July: Briercliffe 10 1U/10
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