Tuesday 7 August 2012

07/08/2012 - Briercliffe 10 Results

The penultimate Briercliffe 10 saw seven riders do battle against the clock around the Southill course. The weather conditions promised to be better than they actually were on the night, with a cross-wind affecting the course to the west of Ireland.The Olympics will have finished next week so come and have a final crack at a season's PB....

Nick Hickman continued to carry the Brompton standard and is set to lobby the IOC for inclusion in Rio 2016.

Top spot fell to the Nomads' Simon Doyle who recorded a second sub-25 minute time in two weeks. Justin Lane of CC Ashwell improved on his previous week's time to break the 24mph average.

Jon Traynor was one second off 28 minutes for the distance but still managed to hold Clive Collins off to claim third spot on the night.

Results
Simon Doyle
24:37
Justin Lane
24:46 CC Ashwell
Jon Traynor
28:01
Clive Collins
28:03
Mark Collins
29.50
D Byers
30:05
Nick Hickman
31:21 Brompton - the unfold was 18 seconds (for the record).

Time keeping and pushing off by Frank Turner and Geoff Perry and Richard Bland.

In other news... Ben Wilson broke the hour mark for 25 miles in last Sunday's Finsbury Park CC F1/25 open. He recorded 59.50 for the distance and now joins the sub-hour club. Well done Ben. Peter Lawrence of Team MDT recorded 52.24 for first place.

Simon Doyle was 8th in the Beds Road CC Evening 10 on 09/08/12 with an impressive 24.59 for the 10 mile circuit.