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2012 Open Time Trials with the CTT

January 27, 2012 Paul Carvill One comment
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As well as our own club ‘Time Trials’ which start on the 11th April 2012 (Dave Hinch will provide more details shortly), there are also open events that you can enter as long as you are a member of a CTT affiliated club such as Lincsquad.

Time trialling is the simplest of competitive formats: a race against the clock, with riders starting a minute apart. It’s known as the ‘race of truth’ because there’s nowhere to hide, no one to draft behind; just you and the bike and the thumping of your heart. Oh, and a clock ticking.

Most events are fixed distance, being 10,25,50 or 100 miles. There are also fixed time events -12 and 24 hours -with the objective being to ride the furthest you can. Courses are on public roads and are either’out and back’, using a roundabout to turn halfway, or circuits with consecutive left turns.

Mark Dyer has kindly put together a list of some of the events in Lincolnshire below.


Date/Day       Course/Distance    Event Start/£     Organising Club        Comments

03-Mar Sat    C10/27 10mile      14:00/£7.5           Scunthorpe RC          A15/Kirton to M180 return

11-Mar Sun   CS/13 22mile        09:00/£7.5           Bourne Whs CC (Hardriders) Rolling! Essendine

17-Mar Sat    O10/1 10mile         13:00/£8            Doncaster Whlrs        Hat.Woodhse/Blaxton. (Tyram lake)

25-Mar Sun   CS/9 27mile            09:00/£7            Spalding CC              Edenham

01-Apr Sun    C25/10 25mile       10:00/£7.5         Skegness Wheelers  Candlesby

07-Apr Sat     C10/10 10m          14:00/£8            Sleaford Wheelers CC Sleaford

08-Apr Sun     C25/27 25m          09:00/£15          Boston Wheelers CC (2 Up TTT) Frithville (£15 per team)

14-Apr Sat     CS/4 15.5m           14:00/£15           Lincolnshire RRA  (2 Up TTT) At Horncastle

29-Apr Sun    CS/11 19m             08:00/£7.5         Scunthorpe RC           Scotter/Susworth/Morton

12-May Sat    C10/7 10m            14:00/£8             Barton Wheelers       Barton

13-May Sun    C25/3 25m           10:00/£7.5          Lincs RRA (MM 1:00:00) Saxilby/Newton/Besthorpe

(MM 1:00:00) indicates preference to people who’ve not gone sub 1hr last 3 seasons. If full field slowest riders given preference. Good event for first time 25m TT on safe course.

20-May Sun    C10/9 10m           09:00/£7.5          Lincs RRA                   Skendleby

26-May Sat     O13C 13m/26m   13:00/£10           Rudy Project TT Series Bessingham/Gringley/Clayworth

Doncaster Wheelers promotion (my old club!) of the regional event of the national Rudy Project series. Good course with a few testing drags and little traffic. 2 years ago Michael Hutchinson won men’s event and Sarah Storey (Paralympian gold medallist and first person to ride for full GB team) the woman’s. This year Julia Shaw won the women’s event – by far the best female in TTs over the past few years. 13mile for woman/juniors/male veterans. 26m for senior men/espoirs.  :)

27-May Sun    C25/1 25m           13:00/£7.5          Lincolnshire RRA (CENTENARY EVENT) At Tattershall

03-Jun Sun     C25/17 25m         08:00/£7.5          Scunthorpe Road Club Great Coates (on A180/Barnetby)

09-Jun Sat      C10/4 10m           14:00/£7.5          Lindsey Roads CC       Not location details in handbook!

16-Jun Sat      C50/2 50m           14:00/£8             Sleaford Wheelers CC  As above!

24-Jun Sun     C25/35 25m          09:00/£7            Spalding CC                 Donington

30-Jun Sat      C10/4 10m           14:00/£7.5          Lindsey Roads CC       No location details!

01-Jul Sun      C50/8 50m           08:00/£7.5          Scunthorpe RC          Gt Limber/Brigg/Barton/Laceby

03-Jul Tue      C10/8 10m           19:00/£8(£2 for boys/girls) incoporating GHS LINCS DISTRICT CHAMPIONSHIP school boys/girls 12-16yrs. All get medal I believe and can qualify for National finals (Alford Whls CC) (Championship Entry Forms only for boys/girls). At Alford

08-Jul Sun     C25/35 25m          08:00/£8 Sleaford Wheelers CC         Donington

14-Jul Sat     C10/28 10m          14:00/£8  Lincoln Wheelers (CHARITY)  Ingham (Gift downhill to finish that you never pedal up in the event!!)

22-Jul Sun     C10/9  10m           14:00/£7.5  Skegness Wheelers        Skendleby

28-Jul Sat      C10/10 10m          16:00/£7.5   Witham Wheelers          Sleaford

12-Aug Sun   C25/27 25m          09:00/£8     Alford Wheelers              Frithville

02-Sep Sun    C30/7 30m           09:00/£7.5   Lincolnshire RRA             Boston

09-Sep Sun    C10/28 10m         10:00/£8      Trent Valley RC               Ingham – that downhill again!

16-Sep Sun    CS/8 24.5m          10:00 Men/Esp RTTC Rudy Project Time Trial Series (LINCS DISTRICT)

16-Sep Sun    CS/3 14.1m         10:00 Women/Male Vets/Juniors RTTC Rudy Project Time Trial Series (LINCS DISTRICT) Harby/Saxilby.

So, that’s the vast majority of the Lincolnshire events. Also lots more events in Yorkshire and North Midlands districts which are not far away. Link to CTT for more events:

http://www.rttc.org.uk/Events/EventsList/tabid/134/Default.aspx

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A note from 2011 Chairman Andy Veitch

January 19, 2012 Paul Carvill No comments
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This has again been another fantastic season for Lincsquad. We have again run our 3 flagship races – the Challenge, Bomber and the Brigg sprint. These races were a great success and with even more entries for these races since last year, meant the committee relied heavily on Lincsquad members and family to help out. They did help in abundance showing just what a fantastic club this is and there cannot be many clubs who run so many races in a year successfully, so I think everyone should be very proud with what we achieved.

New to last year was the Sportive which was again very popular, raising thousands of pounds for local charities. This is again looking like a popular event for this year so hopefully we can top the amount raised for charity from last year. I would like to welcome Dave Hinch as he has taken over the role of organizing the TT Series. This has been a hugely popular series and I think that this has had a lot to do with the enthusiasm and hard work of Phil Binch. The effort he has put in, especially the last 2 years to make the TT Series so popular that last year we even ran out of numbers as we had so many people turn up. This enthusiasm by Phil is paramount also with the success of the Brigg Bomber. Before Phil took it by ‘the scruff’ of the neck 2 years ago this race was looking in danger of disappearing but has now become so popular and maybe even more so than the Challenge, so with Dave coming on board, and with his undoubted enthusiasm with anything he does, then I can only see this series being as popular as ever.

This year, as was the same the year before, we have welcomed many new members to the club who have never raced a triathlon before. With the club investing heavily on getting people through their level 1 and 2 coaching qualifications, the club is now able to offer quality coaching sessions, and the improvements we have seen in these new members as well as our older ‘ seasoned’ members is proof that these sessions are an absolute must for Lincsquad members. Following on from this we should look at the achievements of individuals at the club. We have, for the second year running the British National Quad Champion, Steve also came 3rd in the World Championship in Czech. We have had people representing Great Britain in Quadrathlon, Triathlon and Duathlon all over Europe which goes to show the depth in strength we now have at the club.

I could go on and on praising the efforts of all of you but I really need to close my notes but before I do there is one person I would like to thank. Paul Carvill does things for the club that most people don’t see or hear about. He has constructed and over the years, developed what is admired by nearly every club in the country, our fantastic website. I think we all, myself included, take going on the website for granted but without it where would we be. The forum is absolutely invaluable and the latest addition is the fantastic new online shop. Paul is always improving and updating the site and he has made it into one of the most important ‘Hubs’ of the club.

As you may have seen on the Forum Steve Clark is stepping down this year from the committee to concentrate on his training and his own ambitions for this year. Steve has been an invaluable member of the team with the time and effort he has put in and hopefully we will once again see him at the helm in the not too distant future. With Steve stepping down and as I have mentioned before we now have Dave Hinch stepping up and taking an important role in member’s development. We also welcome Steve Dolby onto the committee. Steve and Dave have both shown that they are willing to give up some of their spare time to make sure this club moves forward with new goals and ideas but we need more of  ‘You’ to make sure Lincsquad is always looking forward and never back.

So finally, I would like to thank all of you for supporting me as Chairman over the past 3 years.

To see the club grow as it has would make any Chair proud to be part of such a club and I would like to say that there is no prouder Chair in the Country than the one sat in this room tonight.

 

Thank you.

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