H&StL CC Wednesday Evening TT Series ends on a high note

The last Wednesday evening TT of the series ended on a high note at Broad Oak with 9 PBs, 4 first timers on the course and three seasoned campaigners in the field of 16 riders.
Headlines for the second week going were made by the juniors with another PB by 17 year old Joe Kingsman (19.23) to win the event, one second quicker than last week, a first sub 23 ride by 16 year old Ollie Chapman (22.52) with a PB by 10 seconds and another big improvement of 47 seconds by 12 year old Fabien Large (27.10).Second was series winner Stuart Hodd (19.39) with a PB by 18 seconds and third Malcolm Daly (20.55) a PB by 15 seconds riding sub 21 for the first time.  See the attached table of all comers times for 2014 and SBs for the previous three years.Stuart's best ten placings are 8 first places and two seconds (96+20=116 points). Joe Kingsman might have pushed him harder had he ridden more events but five wins and three seconds with only one event left, if the Battery Hill hill climb is held, (60+30=90 points) means Malcolm is second  with 1 win, 5 seconds and 4 thirds (12+50+36=98 points). Joe stands a mathematical chance of second place if we hold the hill climb.Joe missed several weeks with exams and in part may be saving himself for Rovers Thursday 10s in which he has knocked out some very, very quick times and his 22.12 in our Pevensey 10 remains the quickest 10 for the club in 2014, unless anyone knows otherwise if someone has sneaked off to ride some very fast courses further afield!The event was followed by the end of evening series meal, back in The Rainbow Trout again. Nineteen of us sat down for a very sociable evening.  The series would not have gone ahead without Jamie Beale putting in the Police Notices and Stuart being there every week to erect warning signs, sign people on and set out the field, then push everyone off.  Thanks were also given to the timekeepers and assistants: Chris Parker, John, Vidler, Steve Curtis, Steve Butcher and Angela Chapman. We also had marshals out when required, so thanks again to Mark Ingram, Ivan Johnson, Derek Millgate, Tim Miles, Tom Norris and anyone else who we may have forgotten for the moment!What has added to the series is other members and friends turning up many weeks to support, chat and socialise with everyone with some pleasant post event drinks in various hostelleries.  All in all a good year with quite a few new members trying time trials for the first time and doing very well with much promise for improvements, if they want to do a bit more than have a mid week work out by progressively lowering their PBs.



Chris Parker