Accident

Just to let everyone know that Anne is OK after last night's accident; just a few scrapes and a badly damaged bike. Hopefully the latter will come out of the driver's pocket.

Rider competitions

Some news about our riders:

GHS Championship

Andrew Richardson has entered the London West District round of the GHS Championship. Best of luck to him, and we hope he qualifies for the Nationals.
Update: Andrew didn't have a good ride (mid 27s) and so hasn't qualified for the Nationals. Better luck next year!

WLCA 50

Joe Francis and Andrew Payne have entered the WLCA 50 that's this year's event for our Club 50 Championship. Good luck to them (& I'm sure you'll both beat my PB of 3h17m!)
Update:The event was won by Adam Topham in 1:52:43; he was an MDCC member last year but joined Team SBR this year as it's closer to where he lives in Windsor. Joe came in just outside the top ten with 2:07:34 and Andrew finished in 2:12:04. Congratulations to you both - remember to ride the 100 in August to register for the BAR. Results

Weekend update

The Antelope RT TTT went well, with John Woodburn placed fourth overall, Shea Hindman & Chris Heape eighth and Danuta Tinn, Peter Weir & Andrew Payne 18th of 29. Full results on CTT site.

The Fifield 15 went smoothly with fine weather ensuring nearly a complete starting field (40 of 42 riders started). We missed out on the overall placings, but John Woodburn convincingly won the Vets while Danuta came second in the ladies event, 15 seconds behind Catherine Essex (Kings Lynn CC). Without the 30 mile event the day before, I'm sure that would have been reversed.
Although there wasn't a team prize, for interest the Club placed 1,2,4,5,6 with North Hampshire RC the only other club to enter sufficient riders to make up a team. Good to see the Club so active with 15 riders, plus all the marshals and support staff - a great effort from everyone involved. Thank you! Full results on the MDCC site.

Rider news

Congratulations to the riders who entered Good Friday's event. On a modified H10/2 course with 8 riders in a 105 strong field we won the Vets on Standard (John Woodburn), the Ladies (Danuta Tinn) and the team (Chris Stocks, Dave Marshall and Peter Weir). Results

We've also got several teams entered for this Saturday's Antelope RT 50K 3-up team time trial: Danuta Tinn/Peter Weir/Andrew Payne, Chris Heape/Shea Hindman/Stewart House (Arctic Shorter Rochford RT), and John Woodburn/Eddie Adkins (Bournemouth arrow CC)/Brian Phillips (East Grinstead CC). Startsheet

The full Startsheet PDF for this Sunday's Fifield 15 is now on the website, including a correction for rider 20 as William Girvan (not Gilding as sent in the emails).

Finally, don't forget this Sunday's Fifield 15 is the closing event for the Derek Addaway Memorial sporting courses comp. Barring punctures, Dave Marshall is favourite for the win after opening a good lead on the Hilly 30 with Chris Heape needing to cover the course 2.2 mph faster than Dave. However the third place is much more open, with Andrew Payne and Shea Hindman only .1 mph apart or about a minute over the 15 mile course.

Rebecca Romero

Rebecca turned up to a few of our Club evening 10s last year when she first started finding life after rowing. She's doing well, and has been selected for the World Track Championships. We wish her all the best this weekend.

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