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Club News 2009

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.

Riders came from all over the country to compete with age groups from Under 10s to over 40s and with a good number of novices trying this growing branch of the sport for the first time.

The Club’s Adam Kemp and Alexi Edwards put in fine rides in the U10s to finish 2nd and 4th respectively and in the U14 Girls, Lauren Randall took 1st. Imre Bartal was an impressive 4th in the very competitive U16 Boys event and was selected to ride for the Central Region in the Area Championships in November.

UCI Commisaire Kelvin Hoy, praised the Icknield for an excellent course and organisation and looks forward to the same again next year.

Richard Noon (26/10/09)

Tim Davies records another PB

Tim Davies reports that in the Team Economic Energy 10 on Saturday 10th July on the E2/10 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!

Photo:NA

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.

(Andy Parrish)

La Marmotte 2009

This weekend instead of 12hrs around Bedfordshire, I did 8:43:56 around the Alps in the Marmotte! The ride is an amazing experience, 108miles and 5000m of climbing taking in the Cols de Glandon, Telegraph, Galibier and the famous Alp d'Huez. There were 7000 starters. The Tour de France will go up the Alp next year too - so it will feel familiar. Galibier is awesome, snow along the roadside and views that go on forever.

We are immortalised on youtube with Ash Cox (BRCC). That's Tim eating a banana (ed).

(Tim Davies 7/07/07)

(Video: Russell Standring)

All-in 10

Congratulations to club Juniors Stephen Parsons and Sam Gilzean who respectively took 1st and 2nd handicap in the evening league All-in club 10 mile time trial on Tuesday 23rd June 2009... results here.

Gosling Park Track Session

On Saturday 13th June, 20 Icknield Road Club riders, young and not so young, took part in a 2 hour track session coached by Club Coach Barry Gilzean. 20 Icknield Road Club riders,young and not so young took part in a 2 hour track session coached by Club Coach Barry Gilzean. On a very warm and sunny day, the riders that were new to track were coached in the fundamentals of riding bikes with no brakes and the banked circuit whilst the intermediate riders practiced race skills before competing in a handicap and a "devil take the hindmost" competition.

Richard Noon, Photo: Rob Burnett

Welwyn Track

Interclub 25 mile Time Trial

10 Icknield riders turned out on Sunday to ride the interclub 25 event around the Southill-Old Warden circuit, between them racking up 189 points. Unfortunately, this was only half that of Beds Road's counting points. Lets hope more turn out for the next round which is the 15 on 21st June... Results Sheet .

Gareth Evans (Army CU)

It is with deepest regret that Icknield RC has to advise of the tragic death of Gareth Evans whilst taking part in the club open 25 time trial on Sunday 3 May 2009. The club wishes to extend its condolences to Gareth’s family, friends and colleagues at this difficult time.

British Cycling Go Ride Conference, 5th April 2009 - Club to become clubmark accredited

The Club Coaches, Barry, Peter and Richard attended the Annual Conference for Go-Ride accredited clubs on Sunday 5th April in Watford.

The guest speaker was Beijing Gold Medal Team Sprint Winner, Jamie Staff... read more

IRC 30km Sporting TT

Photo:Andy Parrish

Above: Peter Harridge (17th) at the Cheddington crossroads was the fastest Icknield rider with a time of 49 mins and 4 secs.

A nice sharp morning after a cold night and none of the riders forgot to put their clocks back. Great ride by Steve Golla Stigma Sports with 43mins 00secs to beat Luke Clarke Team Milton Keynes by 1 min 36secs with Jason Gurney Team Milton Keynes close behind in 3rd place. Team MK with riders finishing 2nd to 5th position easily won the Team award.
Fastest Lady was Joanne Spragg of Aylesbury CC who clocked 56mins 32 secs... Other Icknield riders were Colin Holmes, Tim Davies, Paul Valks, Peter Harriage, and Barry Gilzean. Results here (excel doc)

Photo:Andy Parrish

Above: Paul Valks.

(Andy Parrish / Peter Tasker)

Annual General Meeting

The AGM for 2008 took place at the Clubroom, Silsoe, on Tuesday evening, the 20th January, 2009 when the minutes of the 2007 AGM, the annual reports and the financial statements for the 2008 year were duly adopted. Amendments proposed by Gordon Hart to Club Rules 2 and 18 were agreed and election of club officials and delegates for the 2009 year were voted in. Some 40 members attended the meeting which was chaired by retiring Club Chairman, Peter Tasker. Apologies were received from retiring Club Secretary Richard Noon. The meeting ended at 9.50 pm.