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Reports
PTW 4-up
Beautful conditions, but a slow course for the PTW 4-up (R25/24). Stand out performance from OVW-A (Powell, Tidball, Matthews) as they posted a 55, and were 5th overall, and also won fastest team with a vet (passed down) as last year.
Shame there wasn't a prize for the best looking team, as that would surely have been won by OVW-B (Jones, Jones, Alexander, Wardhaugh). They were well happy to sneak under the hour - particularly good result for Jase in his first TT, and without the traditional aerodynamic aids (like shaved legs for example).
Thanks to John Will for the photo above, copied from Facebook.
Cwmcarn 25
Steve Madeley, Rob Jones, Shirley Howell, Tony Howell and Allan Wardhaugh rode this on the R25/7 at Usk on June 19th. Won by Ceri Pritchard with a 50:20 I think - 2 minutes ahead of his nearest challenger.
Stiff NE wind made it hard work on the outward leg from Usk to Monmouth - probably hardest of all for Rob Jones, as he'd believed Steven Madeley that the wind was a SW, so the outward leg would be faster. Fair play then to Rob who must have felt demoralised when looking at his average speed at the tunnels, because he was the fastest Oggie with a 58:24 (PB). I was also happy with 58:47 (PB), and Steven came in 2 seconds behind this - but, as he pointed out, minutes ahead on vet standard! Tony had a 1:04, which I think he was happy with, as he's not done much hard training this year, and Shirl had 1:16:05 - a PB.
Full results not published yet, but I think I saw Richie Harris posted a 54.
Allan Wardhaugh
Guide to Time Trials
Rob Powell has written a very useful introduction for those new to discipline, and it explains how to enter events, as well as tips for riding.
Rob Powell's TT Guide
Time Trial Diary
Club 10s
The series of Wednesday night time trials starts in May. Remember, volunteers needed for organising these.
The course:
5 May 2010
12 May 2010
19 May 2010
26May 2010
2 June 2010
23 June 2010
30 June 2010
14 July 2010
28 July 2010
11 August 2010
18 August 2010
25 August 2010
1 September 2010
Hill climbs on Norton Hill on un-named road at Ogmore by Sea between B4524 and Sutton Rise on
8 September 2010
15 September 2010.
Open Events
Scroll through the calendar to see the main South Wales district time trials
Upcoming Time Trials
April 2010
| Sat 22nd May | OVW; MD 3 | RH/4 | Helpers will be needed |
| Sunday 23rd May | Pontypool RCC | R25/7 | |
| Saturday 29th May | Bynea CC (SPOCO 4) | R10/4 | |
| Sunday 30th May | Bynea CC | R25/4 | |
| Saturday 5th June | Merthyr CC | R25/3L | |
| Tuesday 8th June | MD 4 | R15/3 | |
| Wednesday 9th June | Merthyr CC | R25/3L |
Recent results
Magic Dragon 1
Sunday 21st March saw round one of the Magic Dragon as the Oggies sought to retain their crown.
Today joint 3rd for me, equal with Andy Butcher, @1min to Tim Rose and Colin Wallace; ahead of Harris and Pov who both seemed to have bad days.
Should I be:
a) pleased with getting good results despite not riding well; or
b) gutted that I'm riding so poorly when there are clearly opportunities to win races at the moment?
I'm leaning towards option B right now.
Anyway, loads of DNS's as expected. Steven, Rob J and Ron all rode, should be along to reveal their times soon. Hopefully we'll have a good start in the series if only because most of the other clubs haven't registered with the WCA yet...
Rob Powell