Broad Oak TT - August 8th

First end of season Broad Oak TT

We had a good turn out for the first of three weeks on the Broad Oak circuit on Wednesday. In particular it was great to have four junior riders in the same event, which we have not had for a few years, three of them riding the circuit for the first time. The latest addition to the junior ranks was Jack Heyes who has had a go at a triathlon with his Dad. On Sunday's Club Run Malcolm and I had ridden with four youngsters to introduce them to club run riding, taking in two laps of the Broad Oak circuit so they were familiar with the roads. Joe Jenner had not been out Sunday since he was just back from his high altitude training camp taking in the legendary Alpe d'Huez major French Alpine climb on a hired bike after missing out on quite a few rides a month ago when he was unwell. Meanwhile Joe Kingsman had been racking up the miles at home and getting used to clip less pedals.

Joe Kingsman (22.36) just shaded Joe Jenner (22.48 PB) by 12 seconds. In only his second TT after a ride last week Martyn Matt (27.59) put in a solid marker time as did Jack Heyes (28.30) in his first TT.

Malcolm Daly (21.21) won the club event with Joe Kingsman a very impressive second in 22.36, Simon Newell third in 22.41, Joe Jenner fourth in 22.48 and Simon Grogan fifth in 24.12

Second and sixth fastest times of the night were private time trials by In Gear team mates Barny Willard (21.27) and Richard Clark (23.12).

Back in the mid nineties we had a good number of juniors. Amongst them were the Purves brothers who did many Wednesday TTs (no opens from memory) and some cyclo cross on mountain bikes. Out of the blue Keri got in touch and said he was about to put a road bike together and joined me on a bacon butty run a few weeks back. He rode on Wednesday and is on the road to regaining fitness but neither he nor I have yet looked up the times he was doing in the mid 1990's.

CP