North Road CC – Evening ‘10’ - 2016 Week 4

Tue 07 Jun 2016

Joe Fry pans the course record

The members of the club provided the support staff to run the event – clerical staff, signage, marshals at the start and finish, timekeeper and refreshments. Eleven members and five guests provided the competition on an overcast and calm evening and, as only racing men can say, there was plenty of air about for fast times!

I have been racing, helping and timing in these events for over thirty years and I can recall some very fast times for this hilly circuit of 9.3 miles. I would not care to claim to have witnessed the fastest time and I do not have the papers to show what is the course record. Craig Simpson had some very fast times to his name and a national champion from Israel was reputed to have recorded the absolute best but the year and time escape my memory.

Joe Fry (Pedal Heaven) recorded some fast times in 2015 and this year he has finished second in the Hardriders 25 with 58.03 eight seconds behind the winner. I am prepared to write that his time of 19.24 on 7 June 2016 is in my opinion an event and course record. Joe is to be congratulated on his ride and I challenge anyone with a good memory to prove that 19.24 is not the best!

Watch out for Joe Kiely (aged 13) and Nick Candy (aged 15) and do not overlook Abigail Coles (aged 16) all who one day may be matching the winning times.

Pos. Rider Time
North Road Riders
1 Jobe Usher 21.14
2 Dan Ryan 22.13
3 Nick Candy 22.35
4 Peter Nunn 22.56
5 Tim Brown 23.09
6 Aaron Hemsley 24.07
7 john Saysell 24.18
8 Glyn Dodds 24.26
9 Dave Kiely 26.59
10 Paul Groves 31.43
11 Dale Sellers (Punctured) 32.23

Guests
1 Joe Fry Pedal Heaven 19.24
2 Archie Wishart Finchley RT 23.00
3 Joe Kiely Welwyn Whs 24.26
4 Chris Stevens Finsbury Park CC 27.07
5 Abigail Coles Lea Valley Youth CC 33.30​

From the pen of Graham Thompson.