Congleton
Cycling Club
Due to the
sad death of Graham McCargo, the recent AGM voted Bob Norton as Chairman and
Rob Waghorn as Vice Chairman – both having served the Club over many years in a
variety of functions. Barry Fox “retired” as Secretary for which he was thanked
for his many years of service to the Club. Denise Hurst was voted as Secretary,
in addition to her role of Membership Secretary. Tony Elliott continues his
“sterling” job as Treasurer and the Austin’s, Joyce and son Karl are
Secretaries for Club Events and Racing respectively.
Club
Members participate in all aspects of Cycling – from short leisure rides to the
longest competitive rides and tours both on- and off-road. Future reports will
describe each aspect in some detail and this report concentrates on the 2007
Club Events.
Hill Climb
Championship, 30th September.
A fine
morning with better than usual turnout of 11 riders, and 3 lady riders. The
course was Ganney Bank starting at the Horseshoe pub and finishing at the
viewpoint on Mow Cop ridge - just over a mile in total.
Lynne
Skellern claimed the ladies trophy with a time of 9m44s.
Mark Dooley
won the overall title in a time 6m04s beating last year's winner Neil Skellern
by 14 seconds.
Ben Elliott,
visiting for the weekend from Surrey and who rides for Kingston Wheelers,
showed his father Tony how to ride the course beating him by 1.5 minutes and
coming third overall.
Prospective
new member Robin Jones did a creditable ride of 8m52s in his first competitive
event.
This was the
final event in the Bob Job memorial trophy series. Karl Austin was the
comfortable overall winner with 169 points. Tony moved up into 2nd place
following the Hill Climb with 139 points just pipping third placed rider Andy
Malbon with 137 points.
For
full results and other details of Club activities see http://www.congletoncyclingclub.org.uk
The Club
meets every Thursday at 8.30pm at the Rugby Club and welcomes anyone who would
like to swap ideas and anecdotes on all cycling topics.
The Sunday
club-runs leave from the Rugby Club at 9.30am and at this time of year they are
short and gentle or slow circuits which include a cafe stop.