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DE LAUNE CYCLING CLUB FOUNDED 1889
Sponsored by EVANS CYCLES (UK) Ltd. & SPECIALIZED CYCLES
Cliff
Steele
October
2003
THE PRESIDENTS REPORTS Another time trailing season is coming to an end. No club records this year as far as I know; in fact we have had no events with a full team entered, never mind a team win. The De Laune had always been strong in the time trial world with individual and team open wins but I can see a glimmer and only a glimmer of revival. On the 7th of Sep. we had the OMA 10 and surprise, surprise, we had 9 riders. Yes I can hear you say, all old members. But hey! (As Russell Williams would say), we had 9 riders, riders who remember how good and satisfying a time trial can be. One rider flew from France with his bike in a bag and had digs near the course. How keen can you get? Who was he you ask? It was Monsieur Cliff Pendleton, bless him. The only reason he rode was to smash his old mate Terry Deeley. (I think Mark has full results in this edition) It was good to see little Lenny Double riding. He always looks young and in fact he had his son out with him who looked older than his Dad. I said we have a little glimmer of hope and it was a new member who rode his first time trial and did 24.40. and was third fastest of the morning and his name is Nick Butler. It was a good morning. Thanks to Stax, Titch, John Dods, and Mike Peel for coming out to help. Guess what? We had the Fullers out. Ken and Dot out of bed before sunrise! The battle for first place on age standard was between Alan Rowe and Peter Jenn, with Alan winning by 10 seconds. The fastest of the morning was Matt Goods who pulled another fast ride out of the bag 22.47. Matt was invited to ride a hill climb by the Brighton Mitre. Matt won the event and took the hill climb record. Look out for him this year. The week after (14th Sep) we had the Autumn 25. We had 6 riders 5 of them new members riding their first time trials, with exception to Nick. The times look slow but if you know this course you will know it is not the best course to ride your first time trial, as it has so many turns and roundabouts on it. Poor Andy Simpson I think ended up in Bognor Regis. Fastest of the morning Nick Butler with 1.5.18. Not bad for your first 25. After the event, it was down to the Little Chef for breakfast. Again thanks to the folk from the old peoples home that came out to marshal. Stax, Titch, John Dods, Alan Rowe and our timekeeper Mike Peel. Did you read the report in last months DLN from Harry Corbett re Triathlons. This is a new world to me. Swim, Bike, and Run (If only I was 5 years younger!) Harry gave us results and beginners tips (sorry Kav you have got it wrong again, these were provided by the editor) these made it so interesting. In one paragraph Harry said "We are looking forward and we hope to have 10 (yes) 10 De Laune competitors at the New Forest Duathlon". It is no wonder that Stax is running out of De Laune vests for sale. Harry if you need help I am sure we can get the people out from the home to help. Let us know Before I finish I would like to wish a Happy Birthday to my old friend John Darroch who was 70 on the 6th of September. John came over from Thailand to see us not long ago. He does not look 70 - but he must have done at some time. I will tell you a story (as Max Bygraves would say) in 1955 I rode my first club 50 time trial. I was told to take plenty of food and drink in distance events. I took three (yes) three bottles of orange juice and three Lyons Individual fruit pies. You remember them in square boxes? The course was the Pound Hill, which needed an army of marshals. After about three miles, I had started on my first Lyons individual fruit pie. John Darroch came past like a rocket. At ten miles he came past me again. (He went off course) At 40 miles I was on my second Lyons individual fruit pie and yes he caught me again and was muttering about marshals. I offered him a piece of my pie. He just grunted and sped off. With only four miles to go I caught him with the bonk up to his eyebrows, he said, "Have you got any of that Lions individual fruit pie left?" Kav.
O.M.A.NEWS The date for the next O.M. Supper - combined with the Belgium Night, takes place on Friday 31st October at the Blackheath Clubhouse, Hayes. I know that most of you have taken note of this date as I have had lots of bookings already, numbers are limited, but there are a few places still available - so do phone me if you would like to come along to this very sociable evening. We have already 'recruited' some waiters from Belgium, who will cater for your every need! Well almost, be careful what you ask them for though, as they are not too good at 'the English' yet... See you on the night.. Just a couple of weeks after the Blackheath 'Do', we will be traveling down to Newnham for the Clubs' Annual remembrance service - that is on 16th November. 9.45a.m. at The George for coffee, then off to the Church for the 10.30. Service and the laying of the Poppy Wreath by Pres. Kav on behalf of our Club. Afterwards we go back to The George for lunch, you must let me know if you will be staying for lunch, as the numbers must be booked a week in advance - so now you know what to do next - phone me - usual number.. 01689 851241. See you there... Dot..... CYCLING REPORT ON THURSDAY 18 SEPTEMBER 2003 THE ARGUS (With thanks to Brian Hutton, Cycling Correspondent) The Tour de France, which was watched by three million spectators when it paid a visit to south east England in 1994, could be heading for Sussex in the next few years. London is mounting a million pound bid to host the start of the tour, possibly as early as 2006. The organisers of the tour say they are treating the bid with the utmost respect in view of the success of the 1994 visit when a stage finished on Brighton seafront. The plan is for the prologue time trial to be held in central London over a course passing landmarks, including Trafalgar Square, Whitehall and Buckingham Palace. The first massed start road stage would finish on The Mall after the riders have raced round a circuit in Essex. The second stage would then cross Sussex via Haywards Heath to finish in Portsmouth, from where the riders and support vehicles would return by ferry to continue the race in France, just as they did in 1994. London faces competition from other cities and towns to host the tour start, including Utrecht, Rotterdam and Lugano. Even Quebec in Canada is bidding as the tour's global popularity increases. Where would our intrepid Tour de France explorers fancy visiting? Pat Burns - News As I Read It - Brighton. Turbo Triathlon Race Series This event started at 7 a.m and on this occasion of the 157 starters I was the sole De Laune competitor. The swim of 438 metres takes place in Hampton Lido which is a good pool to swim in. I survived the swim to launch myself at the 21km. bike section. This take place between Hampton Court and Chertsey and is fundamentally flat, over the winter I need to work on my Cycle discipline, but it was great fun. At the early part of the day on a public holiday there was no traffic. The run section is all in Bushey Park and I love running off road. In all I strongly recommend this event of which they run 4 a year.
Forthcoming Event: Location: "Avon Tyrrell Outdoor Centre,
Bransgore, Hampshire" If anybody would like information call me on 07939 540864. Harry Corbett The final rankings after 4 rounds of the 2003 South East MTB Series. (The 2003 SEMBS series came to a close in a double header with the SXC series at Wrinstead Court on August 3)
OMA '10' Holmwood 7 September 2003 Good to see Clif over from his home in France - he came just for the race! A fine ride by Nick in his first ever Time Trial to pick up 3rd place on time. Alan wins the OMA on Age Standard by 10 sec from Pete. Nice morning, nice people, nice breakfast at the Little Chef....
Autumn 25 - Holmwood - 14 September 2003 Won by Nick Butler a week after finishing 3rd in the OMA. A beautiful morning and three new riders... first-timers were/are Triathletes and enjoyed themselves immensely. They are now looking forward to next season. Hopefully they will take part in the up-hill and the down-hill that way they will experience the full range of activities!
Dave Haggart,
'Harry' Corbett, Terry Deeley, Rupert Walsh & Andy Simpson
THE GRAND RAID CRISTALP SUNDAY 24th AUGUST 2003
The event itself is so well organized great support fantastic food a great selection of everything from swiss cheese to a washy vegetable boullion (veggie stock salty to stop cramp) to the people cheering you on. Race day in Verbier up at 5am with my wife Carol who had come with me to give me much needed support, there were nine people staying at Bike Verbier who also were doing the event so there was a good buzz around the breakfast table and a few nerves after the force feed of breakfast it was a quick check of the bike and down to the start line for a 6.45 start there were 1500 riders with another 2500 doing the 76km version shorter one. There was a mass start and straight into a 7km climb I took it steady and reached the peak in around 50min. mark with faster riders doing it in about 30min. Carol my wife and Phil and Lucy from Bike Verbien gave a very welcome cheer as I rode over my first peak only ten hours to go. The first decent was a very fast one with riders doing up to 50mph on the double track unfortunately there was a bad crash with four or five riders involved with one rider looking in a bad way, I decided to take it a little slower, as I started to get into some single track rider soon bunched and it was a bit stop and start I was warned that there would be a lot of road riders and this became very clear on technical decants with nearly all walking after about 40km it started to space out and I came through some beautiful forest meadows and small villages.
I did not hang around there was one last climb and then 16km of downhill. The last decent with about 60 metres to go I decided to push it so off I went, unfortunately my front brake failed I was pushing all right good entertainment for the crowd but it scared the hell out of me just managed to miss a rider then a couple of barriers jump a log and into a field. The crowd loved every second the official was far from impressed, dusted myself off and rolled to the finish line at a time of 11 hours 18 min. which was better than last year but I had hope for under 10½hours but there is always next year to go through all the pain again. I've got a very bad memory, big thanks has to go to my wife Carol what a girl, Phil and Lucy from Bike Verbier, what great hospitality, THANKS. Cliff Steele CYCLO CROSS The 1st round of the Ivan Jeckell/Eastern
Cross League held at Eastway, London on September 6 and hosted by Lea Valley
Youth. From the start the large field streamed onto the rough stuff for the first time this season and no one crashed, at the head of the race was junior Ian Field (San Fairy Ann). As Field gained a gap to extend his lead, Steven Price (De Laune CC) was making his way through the field and he caught Field's wheel on lap two. The two now traded the lead for a few laps until Price attacked and went clear to win.
1 Steven Price DE Laune CC 7 laps in 57:31 Friends of Herne Hill Velodrome Newsletter September 2003 OUTLINE PLANNING CONSENT CONFIRMED BY GOL Public support key to planning success On 30th June 2003 Southwark's Planning Committee decided to grant outline planning consent for British Cycling's Regeneration Proposals application by a vote of four to one. This following two hours of heated debate for and against the proposals, the submission of a petition by the Friends of Herne Hill Velodrome of more than 1,000 signatories from South London residents in support of the proposals, and a vigorous anti-lobby mainly of Burbage Road residents who argued that the proposals would adversely effect the local environment, and that new building just shouldn't happen. The Planning Committee was very impressed by the British Cycling's proposals, thought them sensible and well worked out and of great potential benefit locally and approved the application. However because the project involves building new indoor climbing facility on Metropolitan Open Land, Southwark have had to await confirmation from The Government Office for London (GOL) that they would not intervene in the decision. GOL have now confirmed that they will not intervene and the outline planning consent is now confirmed. The Friends of Herne Hill Velodrome would like to thank all those members who through their support have helped to ensure the success of this first critical stage in regenerating Herne Hill. Voluntary contributions have allowed us to print the publicity and information material needed to get our message across. Letters of support which have been vital in demonstrating the widespread popularity of the proposals. Particularly successful in raising the profile of HHV were the stalls that the Friends held at the Dulwich Country Fayre in Dulwich Park and the Lambeth County Show in Brockwell Park. Both these events showed that there is tremendous public interest in the Velodrome and how little informed the public is about its existence and the potential of the regeneration proposals . A special thank you is due to the Catford CC for the use of their rollers for at the Lambeth show - these really pulled in the crowds and were particularly popular with the youngsters for whom the Velodrome in future will have much more to offer. THE NEXT STEP - HERNE HILL VELODROME REGENERATION FUND LAUNCH London's City Hall Wed 26th November 2003 6.00-9.00 pm The launch date for the Velodrome Regeneration Fund and plans to manage the future of Herne Hill as a not-for profit organisation is set for the 26th November. The Friends expect a large turn-out of cycling supporters from London and the South-East for this evening event. It will be an excellent opportunity to raise the profile of London's home of Track Cycling. Attending VIP's are to be announced. The launch will mark the start of the campaign for Herne Hill Velodrome Trust to raise the £6m needed for building the new facilities building and perimeter track cover. Building work is programmed to start in October 2005. Given the big changes taking place in Sport England and a declining Lottery fund, this is an uncertain and challenging time for fund-raising, and expert fundraising advice will be important to achieve success. Significant corporate sponsorship from the private sector as well as public funding is expected. British Cycling have recently requested financial support from Sport England's Community Club Development Fund for the project. Southwark Council intend to make arrangements with the Dulwich Estate, who own the Velodrome site, which will allow the Velodrome to remain open active until the Trust takes over on the basis of its financially sustainable business plan. BUILDING ON SUMMER HOLIDAY SUCCESS AT THE VELODROME A local publicity drive by the Friend's has resulted in a massive 75% increase in the number children attending summer cycling programmes at the Velodrome this year. The Friends, together with British Cycling and Southwark Council are planning to build on this success by working more closely with local schools and youth organisations in the future. Starting in April 2004 Southwark and British Cycling will fund an additional part time post based at Herne Hill to help promote cycling programmes with young people. In the meantime the Friends would like to see the cycling clubs and users of the Velodrome play a much more active role in deciding what happens at Herne Hill and will be working with Southwark Coincil to make this happen. Meet the Friends at the International Cycle Show - Sept 24-28th The Friends have a stand at this year's International Cycle Show at London's Business Design Centre where they will be promoting the future of Herne Hill as a focus for London cycling. Details of the show at www.cycleshow.co.uk We would like to meet you so please come and visit us on stand No. 226 where we plan to display an interesting collection of track bikes that have been ridden at Herne hill over the years. If you haven't yet joined the Friends of Herne Hill Velodrome do so today by e-mail giving, your name, postal address and phone number HHVelodrome@mac.com Or visit our website ….. www.HerneHillVelodrome.org.uk Generally v. positive political support for project across London, and excellent support from senior Councillors in Southwark. London MPs & GLA members. Vital to success to date has been support of London cycling Campaign & Borough Cycling groups, as this has given broader base of support than BC has been able to draw on and which is so necessary for future funding success. Dulwich Estate require Southwark to underwrite HHV Trust's planned long lease (it has no commercial track record) and Southwark will require a formal decision to do so. I will be doing the politics to ensure the risk assessment report & decision will come out in our favor (Scheduled November). Meeting scheduled with Ken Livingston to enlist his practical support as London's Mayor for our HHV project on 21st October. General support from all political quarters in London for project. Sport England still in limbo, with 75% reduction in staff in last year. Andy Sutch ex director of London Region advising on progressing project on pro bono basis. John Hadley made redundant. Still excellent relations with remaining staff. Have met new director - early days. "Branding" of HHV for purposes of marketing & fundraising being carried out by Peter Carter of Carter Tomlin Wong (West End advertising agency) on pro-bono basis. Friends of HHV has been key to achieving planning success and have some 300 members mostly in SE London but wish to encourage both more club & individual memberships. Freinds will be responding formally to Mayor's Cultural Strategy consultation document in which HHV is specifically mentioned and which will put sport high on political agenda given London Olympic bid. British Cycling Nationally needs to be reminded of the importance of a HHV as the Capitals only Velodrome as from their national perspective they can loose site of HH's uniqueness. They also appear to be nervous about cost of project which at £6m in national sports facilities terms is not high. London Olympic bid and prospect of Lea Valley indoor 250m velodrome is VERY GOOD NEWS for HHV and not as some detractors maintain a threat to HHV. This is confirmed by London Development Agency officers working on Olympic bid - it will increase climate of support in London for sport in general, and as a SE London facility is in just the right quarter to get funding which will need to be spread and not concentrated in N-E Olympic zone. Need for BC SE Region to nominate representative on HHV Trust Board now - I would propose Keith Butler because he is on BC's National Board where effective representation will be vital (they are a bit wobbly in some quarters) , & also because has been most closely in touch with project to date, and understands politics. Fundraising will be big challenge & we need corporate sponsor funding for development work of at least £100,000 in the near future. Manchester, September 2003 Men's Age Group 65 plus years -- Sprint
Roland Crayford went one better than his Silver of twenty four hours earlier
when he proved to have too much speed for his rivals in the Sprint Competition.
Crayford crossed the line ahead of Keith Harrison of the USA, and Britain's Brian
Dacey, who collected Silver and Bronze respectively. Harrison, winner of
all four titles on the 65-69 age group two years ago, also collected the winners
jersey in the 70 plus category. Men's Age Group 65 plus years -- Individual
Pursuit Brian Dacey won Gold in the 200m
pursuit taking the lead with first ever 1 lap. In this all British final, Roland
Crayford was the fastest qualifier recording 2m 36.902, 0.181 faster than Dacey.
Dacey, a member of the London based De Laune club, saved his best till last
taking the title with a time of 2m 36.487, finishing 1.690 seconds ahead of the
Kent based San Fairy Ann club. Ireland's Richard Keller collected his second
Bronze with a time of 2m 48.173 seconds. Men's Age Group 65 years plus Points
Race Brian Dacey of Great Britain, collected
his second gold medal when he out sprinted his rivals to win the 10 kilometre
Points Race. Dacey a member of the London based De Laune CC, gained 14 points to
finish two points ahead of fell Brit Roland Crayford. Bronze went to Keith
Harrison of the USA. Dacey's previous title victory came in the 2,000m Pursuit.
His win in the Points completed a hat trick for Dacey as he also collected
bronze in the Sprint. Crayford went one better with four medals his others were
gold in the Sprint and silvers in the Time Trial and Pursuit. Harrison's bronze
was also his fourth but two came in the 70 plus category where he won both the
Sprint and Pursuit. The American was also second in the Sprint in this category. Medal Standings Country Gold Silver Bronze Great Britain 11 23 14 USA 12 6 13 Australia 7 5 3 South Africa 5 2 2 Netherlands 3 2 1 Canada 3 1 3 Austria 2 1 1 Japan 1 1 Mexico 1 1 Finland 1 Germany 3 Trinidad 1 France 1 2 Guyana 1 Ireland 2 Argentina 1 Columbia 1
You may have noticed that under the article headed "Housing 125 years" (which was a copy of a page from Cycle, the magazine of the Cyclists' Touring Club), a couple of points were lost in the scanning of the page for the DLN (incidentally, this page is from the August/September magazine, which is the 125th anniversary edition). The first of these points is that at the end of the first paragraph after the word "dampness" it should have continued "dampness and harmful light are pretty much non-existent". The second point is that in the fourth paragraph the amount of money granted from the Heritage Lottery Fund should read £35,000. It is my intention at a later date to recommend to the committee that the club's archives be forwarded to Warwick University as the conditions in which they are now stored - namely, my loft - are the very opposite to those that are recommended by the archivists; also, that when the sale of the clubroom is finalised the De Laune should make a donation to this national archive. Brian Saxton Hon Club Archivist THE JOHNSON CUP The Johnson Cup is awarded to the first junior in the club open '25', which, of course, is now the Fred Peachey. The engraving on the cup is as follows: On the reverse side is engraved: "This cup, originally competed for in an inter-club 12 hour time trial between the Southern Elite Cycling Club and the De Laune Cycling Club was won outright by the De Laune Cycling Club in 1947". On the front of the cup is engraved: "De Laune Cycling Club Golden Jubilee Open 100 Trophy to be held for one year by the winner of the 100 mile open time trial commemorating the clubs first 50 years 1889-1938". Underneath this last entry is engraved: "As from 1965 this cup is to be held for one year by the winner of the 25 mile junior time trial". You will note that the first seven entries are for the winners of the cup when it was presented for the open 100 mile time trial.
All the above is as exactly engraved on trophy. This cup was presented by G Johnson, Esq in 1938. Brian Saxton Fred Peachey Memorial '25' Paul Mill, Team Edwards was the winner in a superb time of 53.48 which broke Glen Longland's course record of 54.47. Matt Goodes was the only De Laune rider and his 58.28 secured him 7th place. Three past De Laune members also rode Tony Peachey & Claire Silvester (nee Peachey), San Fairy Ann CC., and John Double, Crawley Wheelers. I would like to thank all my helpers, namely, Alan Rowe, for taking care of the signing on, and for recording & printing of the result board. To Brian Saxton for all the hardware, i.e. numbers, marshal jackets, signs, banners, result board easel, tea urn, teapots, and what ever else he had in the back of his van, all neatly laid out in the hall for easy distribution. He then went off to the start to do the pushing off, assisted by Roy Savery. Mike Peel managed to squeeze big Ron (Ives) Thanet RC into his sports car and they duly marshalled at Thannington RB. Val Peachey (San Fairy Ann CC) Life member of the De Laune was at the Chilham fork, along with Christine Burrows, Thanet RC. At Spearpoint RB, our President John 'Kav' Kavanagh, John Dods, Brian Waller, and Lennie Brown. Brian 'Tich' Shambrook was at the finish relaying times, and as always, before we locked up, ensured that the hall was cleaner than when we went in. A special thanks to the 'girls' behind the tea bar, Jean Rowe, my wife Lyn, and Pam Ives. (I think Val has booked them for next year!!) Thanks to the above three ladies, along with Barbara Waller, Gina Savery, Pat 'Kav' and Marion Dods for providing the cakes. As you may have noted I, once again, had to enlist help from my 2nd claim club (Thanet RC.) Next year Vat Peachey will be promoting this event and I for one don't want to see San Fairy Ann CC members helping us out, so please give Val your support especially as she is not even a 1st Claim member of the De Laune, albiet that she is a life member. Finally, we made a loss of around fifty pounds on the event, 10 De Laune riders would have more or less helped us break even. Not possible!!!! well the Thanet RC fielded 12 riders and their racing membership is a lot less than ours. So next year please support our Club's only open TT promotion by either riding or marshalling. Malcolm Adams 2003 Marin Dusk 'til Dawn MTB Race Returning for its second year, the Dusk till Dawn night race is still a pretty new format for the UK. The race is done in teams of 4 or teams of 2; there's even a solo category if you're that way inclined. Ross and I entered the Men's Pairs category for this 12hr night-time race around the popular NPS and SAMS venue of Thetford Forest. Lining up alongside us were 64 people in our category as well as another 200 or so teams of 4 and more than a few solo riders. It was going to be a busy night. The race starts at 8pm on Saturday night and goes through until 8am on Sunday. This meant that it would be dark when we started although the race would finish in the early morning sunlight. A lot of lighting power was needed! We arrived at Thetford on Saturday lunchtime and made the most of the gorgeous sunshine while we prepared the bikes and sorted out our team strategy (ride fast and don't fall off). Thanks to a month without rain, the 10-mile course which snaked around the single track at Thetford was very dry and quite sandy in places - not a problem I usually encounter at mountain bike races in the UK. We'd decided on an alternating lap format, i.e. 1-on, 1-off all night. There was going to be precious little time between laps for food and drink so sleep was out of the question. Ross had with him a secret weapon for the early hours…a pack of Pro-Plus and we'd both stocked up on caffeinated energy gels. I lined up on the start line just before 8pm having been told in no uncertain terms by Ross that I would be doing the 400m Le Mans style run to the bikes for the start. The chaos of 300 mountain bikers running through the dark to their bikes was over remarkably quickly as the dark twisty single track soon sorted the group out into a long line of lights threading their way through the forest. Thetford in daylight is quite a daunting place simply because of the sheer size of it...Thetford at night is a whole new ball game, very big and very very dark. Without lights, you literally could not see your hand in front of your face and even with a 40W head torch to light the way; the only visible part was the tunnel of light illuminating the track for 20m just in front of you. It really concentrates the mind as there are no distractions like scenery to look at. One lap took about 45 minutes giving each of us just enough time to get fed and watered and be back at the handover zone to meet the incoming rider. Thetford is a virtually flat forest but the single track is also very twisty and swoopy, demanding constant pedalling to maintain momentum. There were a few sections of fire road to allow a bit of a rest and easy overtaking. By 2am however, the course, lack of sleep and increasing chill of the night air were really beginning to tell as my lap times stretched out to the 50-minute mark. Ross was still maintaining lap times of around about 45-46 minutes, probably as a result of necking energy gels each lap. I managed to ride through the fatigue though and at 3am took some of the magic Pro-Plus which livened me up no end. As dawn broke at about 6am, we were in 4th place and a last minute effort by me to sneak in before the cut off time of 8am meant that Ross was able to go out for another lap to put us one lap in front of the 5th placed team that had been chasing us all night but had failed to make the cut-off. Ross cruised the final lap in a time of 48-min to give us 4th place, with 16 laps in 12hrs 40 minutes, 27 minutes down on the 3rd placed team. The winning Men's Pair had done an astonishing 17 laps (170 miles) is a time of a little over 12 hours so they had really been flying. We had no mechanical problems, quite surprising considering that we'd both ridden 80 miles through sand and dirt in the course of one night and our collective lighting power was easily good enough for the dark hours. A great result for De Laune from a fantastic event. We'll be back next year to aim for a spot on the podium. JAMES LYON DATES TO REMEMBER Club Hill Climb (Titsey Hill) 19 October NOTE change of date - now within the BEC CC Hill Climb. You must enter 2 weeks before on the proper form. Belgium Night/OMA at Blackheath Harriers HQ Friday 31 October - only a few places left 7 December Down Hill on Tillburstow Hill, Godstone - followed by more social drinks... INTER CLUB EVENTS TIME TRIALS 12th Oct l5 mile Q15/4 VTTA
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Some
of you may have noticed over the last few months that some of the pages of the
DLN looked very dirty this was a problem that I was having with the
reconditioned copier that I bought eight years ago to produce the mag for you.
Well the time has now come that the service engineer can no longer service
this obsolete machine; incidentally he has not increased his charges since he
supplied it which also included for all the toner used.
The
Grand Raid Cristalp MTB Enduro 131km. of pure hell 66km. of climbing 5000mt. of
elevation - maximum height 2800mts. - and this was the second time of doing this
race. I had taken two weeks off to train, I got dizzy going around Richmond Park
so many times, up and down Box Hill to get some climbing in but it would be
hopefully worth it, all the early morning rides in the end.
The
second part of the race was by far the hardest with a 22km climb that seemed to
go on forever I seemed to slow right down and get passed by anyone on a bike
even if they were not racing I knew I had to save something for the Pas De Lona
with last year this being by far the worst pass for me about 4km of un-ride able
mountainside and ski slope, last year I made the mistake of looking up to much
and seeing how far it was, this time I was prepared managed to stuff my face
with as much food as I could at the feed station quick shot of my inhaler and
off, I felt great and passed about forty riders and no one passed me which made
a change and was a very nice feeling.
