A fine warm Wednesday evening with only moderate winds resulted in some great times on the Broad Oak circuit this week. Next week we move to the Ninfield circuit signing on at 18:30 in Downs View off Church Lane, but we will be back at Broad Oak in August.Stuart Hodd (19:57) won the event with a PB by 48 seconds and joins the exclusive list of the very few riders to have broken the 20 minute mark on the circuit. Sixteen year old Joe Kingsman (20:05) was pretty close to adding his name to the role of honour after taking another 25 seconds off his PB set last week. Third was Simon Newell (22:02), fourth Ivan Johnson (22:28), whose c. 2009 PB is a sub 20, fifth Jozef Mager (22:53 PB).
Of the field of 16 riders all 10 that rode last week went quicker on a fast evening, five setting PBs, 15 year old Ollie Chapman (23:02) by 20 seconds and a massive one minute six second improvement in PB for 12 year old Fabien Large (29.52) going sub 30 minutes and Jon Stainsby (23:56) equalling his PB.
New member James Cornford (25:02) has been one of the top BMX riders in the country and a keen downhill MTBer but has had severe knee injuries that means he cannot produce the explosive effort needed, a cadence of over 200rpm seconds after a standing start (!) for top class BMX racing without causing further injury. James has ridden two of the recent Hove Park evening Crits and is keen to try some more road races and will improve his Broad Oak time considerably in August now he knows the course.
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| Big Improvements For Ollie And Fabian! |
Second claim Mark Ingram (24:19) rode his first ever TT having been on our club runs and some of our winter chain gangs in addition to riding with Rye Wheelers.
Fastest time of the evening was a private TT by In Gear's Pete Tadros (18:04) pretty much matching his 2012 and 2013 SBs but 16 seconds off his 2011 course record of 17:48!
Chris Parker
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