Icknield Road Club
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Club 76th year

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All Club News 2009

IRC Promotions

Recent Updates / Additions

Welcome to the Icknield Road
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We are a cycling club based in Silsoe, Bedfordshire, of about a hundred members. The club is involved in time trialling, cyclo-cross, road and track racing, social activities, youth hostelling weekends and other events. We provide on and off-road activities under the supervision of experienced cyclists and qualified coaches and work with local schools to deliver Go-Ride cycling activities following the British Cycling plan. If you want to ride with an experienced yet sociable band of riders, who will still wait for you if you puncture, then ride with the Icknield. Come along to one of our Tuesday evening club nights or turn up at a club run to find out more.

Announcements

Club Lunch and prize presentation 2009

For ticket holders, don't forget the Club Lunch and Prize Presentation is on Sunday 22nd November at the Putteridgebury Centre, Luton. Please arrive 12 noon for 1pm. See you there.

Sunday club run 22nd November 2009

Meet outside Houghton Regis church, 9.30am. Cafe stop at Marston Moretaine Forest Centre 11.00am. Contact Alan Davies or Dick Lyon for further information.

BC Coaching Courses

With the large influx of new members, this year, 33 to be precise, the club could do with at least another couple of qualified coaches.

There is still 100% funding available to cover the costs of BC coaching courses, or other courses, including for officials... read more

AGM 2009

Please note the change of date for the AGM from 26th January to 2nd February 2010.

Latest Club News

Icknield in the USA

This news was just received from Eric Walthall yesterday, friend of the late Gareth Evans. Keep up the good work.

"I finally got back into competition this weekend. I rode in the Kansas City Cyclocross Series, Veterans Cross Category 4 Mens race. Icknield didn't do too well. 43rd out of 49 riders. Very tough, first time on the cross bike. I think I averaged about 95% of my max HR for 38 minutes."

More pictures of the event here.

Eric Walthall 9/11/09

Cyclo Cross 18th October 2009 Central League Round 3

The Icknield Road Club promoted its first ever Open cyclo cross race in its 76 year history on Sunday 18th October.

Icknield High School in Luton was the venue for the four races which took place over a 3km course which included riding through the long jump pit, over giant man made grassed mounds and through rough scrubland between the trees. ... read more

Full results to be posted soon. Watch this space. More pictures here

Richard Noon (26/10/09)

Interclub hillclimb results

The IRC finished second to the Hitchin Nomads in the Hillclimb competition on Sunday 11th October 2009. Despite only two finishers, Tim Davies and Andy Parrish, we earnt sufficient points to stay ahead of the Nomads in the overall competition. Beds Road, who in the event decided they didn't need to field any riders, won the overall competition with a total of 1058 points. ... results.

Andy Parrish (19/10/09)

Site refresh

We hope you will appreciate the refreshed appearance of the Icknield Road Club website. Should you come across any difficulties in its use please do not hesitate to contact me.

Thanks - Andy Parrish (11/10/09)

Charity 10 Mile TT

There was a good turnout by Icknield racing members in the Icknield promoted Charity 10 on Sunday 13th September. Fastest Icknielder was Tim Davies with a time of 22:21. Neil Allonby and Peter Harridge posted times respectively of 23:06 and 23:14. Other Icknield riders were Paul Bacchini, Rob Blackmore, Colin Holmes, Peter Hopkins, Mark Sibley, John Pfeifer, Tony Bains and Maurice Burton. Full results here

Tour of the Black Mountains

Rumour has it that a select group of Icknielders rode the Tour of the Black Mountains on Saturday 25th July 2009. Neil Allonby and Paul Bachini completed the 117 mile route in 8 hrs 40 mins involving some 13,000 ft of climbing. Ray Morgan and Keith Prime opted for the 60 mile route and 2000 ft of ascent which they completed in 5 hrs 46 mins and 6 hrs 14 mins respectively, whilst our seasoned Sportivist Roger Day completed the middle distance option of 96 miles and 3000 ft of ascent in 8 hrs 33 mins.

Tim Davies Sotonia CC 10

Ray, Keith, Neil and Paul at the Tour of the Black Mountains.

Tim Davies records another PB

Tim Davies reports that in the Team Economic Energy E2/10 on Saturday 10th July on the course near Newmarket in cloudy but light winds he recorded a time of 21:29 - a whole minute off his previous best (see pic below). "The fastest on the day was 19:18. Conditions looked poor but fortunately the stronger winds did not come through until the evening. The return 5 miles was great averaging over 30mph with a cross to tail wind. I was chasing Roger Porter from St Albans and was just catching him on the finish line. Neil Allonby took part, but I left before his result came in, I guess he's done a "23". There were quite a lot of "21s" and the fastest tandem recorded 18:55!"

Tim Davies riding the Sotonia CC Middle Markers event in Andover, Hants, 30th May 2009 where he posted a PB of 22:29 & came 7th in the event.

La Marmotte 2009

Last weekend (4th July) instead of 12 hrs around Bedfordshire, Tim Davies completed La Marmotte in the Alps in 8 hrs 43 mins 56 secs. This is captured in a YouTube video; what fantastic scenery! Tim takes up the story... read more