Steve Urwins chainring (photo Adrian Pennington)
The clubs open 50 on Saturday, produced some amazingly fast times from a very high class 131 rider field. The event was won by Charles Taylor (South Pennine RC) with an event record 1:43:18. Second was Steve Urwin (North Lancs RC) 1:44:43 who was also fastest veteran and third was Crewe Clarion’s Ben McIntosh with 1:46:19.
Best Lady was Jill Wilkinson (Chester RC) 2:07:47. It was a good day for the Wilkinsons because Andy was Best on Veterans Standard with a plus of 32:45 from an actual time of 1:47:47. One of the rides of the day was 16 year old Jake Wright (Sport City Velo), who in his first ever 50 surprised the timekeeper with 1:54:28 to be the junior winner.
There were 6 club riders, led home by Ben Norbury in 1:55:06 (PB). Steve Hulme finished in an excellent 1:57:36, his first 50 for 11 years saying it would be another 11 before he repeats it. They were backed up by Mike Jones 2:06:50 (PB), Steve Sladin 2:09:39 (PB), and Denise Hurst 2:27:34. Paul Dentith and James Walton started but, in common with many others did not finish. Paul gave the best reason heard all day “punctured in both legs”
The club relied on another 30 volunteers to marshal and help run the event. Rider feed back has been excellent, so thanks everyone.
Donations given in return for refreshments (thanks to Kath Biddulph, and Avril Waghorn) totaled £170.53. Thanks also to Hollie Mulroy for baking some scones. There were none left!
The proceeds are being donated to the BOSLEY DISASTER APPEAL FUND.
The full RESULT in on the CTT website.