Evening 10 #1 Report

For me personally, the omens were written for this event when I found out that after parking in the Inholms car park a bird had taken a hearty dump on my car, my beloved TT bike and me. As I cleaned the greeny-yellow gunk off of everything the temperature dropped and my ebbing mojo dropped with it.

It seemed that I was not the only one afflicted with early season tt-itis. Rick Opie had not got his gear mech out of medium gear mode and Rachel then went and punctured before reaching the start. Along with that a hearty number of no-shows due to various reasons meant that we had a field considerably smaller than our first event last year. Still, 15 KPRC riders along with Phil Ember from Paceline and Rob Gardner from the Wheelers made an honest event of it.

The consensus seemed to be hard work on the outward leg and then stick the spinnakers out on the way home. My evening was complete when I found that I couldn't get the bottom 7 sprockets on my block owing to a loose lockring. I don't think it would have made much difference to the speed at which Phil Ember went past me. It seems that pretty much every night is a fast night for Phil. Our first rider home was David Watt, who is already starting to look like the man to beat this season. I think he's been cheating. Sorry, training. At 24.16 that was a great time to put down so early in the season. Russell Williams was second man home with John Beer taking both third place in the scratch and handicap competitions.

Jake Dodd started where she left off last season and put her Mallorca fitness to good use as she was first lady home with Lynda Gale and Samantha Pickup taking second and third spots respectively. Mike Morley took the top handicap points and Grant Pyke taking second spot.

Many thanks to Rachel and Joe for putting out and retrieving the signs, Andy for pushing off and Frank, as ever, for stopping the clocks. And a big happy birthday on the night to the evergreen Ken Williams.

The next evening 10 is on Wednesday 13th April. Names to me or Frank to get on the start sheet.

                                                                                                                          Points

No       Name                           Time                H/T                  Vets +/-           Scr / Hcp         Awards                                                                                                  

15.       Phil Ember                  22-28               Paceline

22.       David Watt                 24-16               23-16                                      7   /   2            1^st Place

20.       Russell Williams          24-33               23-03              + 3-00              6   /   3            2^nd Place

18.       Rob Gardner               25-12               Kingston Wheelers

 9.        John Beer                    25-18               22-48              + 5-27              5   /   5    3^rd Pla/ 3^rd Hcp

11.       Alex Kew                    25-51               23-41              + 0-27              4   /   2

23.       Simon Waller              26-56               23-11                                      3   /   2

21.       Joe Bertorelli               27-36               24-21              + 0-36              2   /   2

 6.        Mike Morley               27-44               20-44              + 5-18              2   /   7             1^st Hcp

25.       Steve Hillier                28-33               24-03              + 0-33              2   /   2

12.       Jake Dodd                   29-11               24-41              + 0-51              7   /   2          1^st Woman

 3.        Rick Opie                    30-31               24-01              - 3-24               2   /   2

13.       Lynda Gale                 30-36               23-36                                      6   /   2

 7.        Patrick Ryan               31-55               22-55              - 1-25               2   /   4

 1.        Grant Pyke                  32-18               22-18              + 2-04              2   /   6             2^nd Hcp

 8.        Samantha Pickup        33-25               23-55              - 5-25               5   /   2

 2.        Ken Williams              34-04               23-34              + 0-02              2   /   2

 

 4.        Philip Burgin               D.N.S.

 5.        Rachel Watkins           D.N.S. Punctured going to the start

10.       Deborah Hurst            D.N.S. (Apol)

14.       James Roberts             D.N.S.

16.       Simon Trehearn           D.N.S. (Apol)                                                                        

24.       Adrian Feasby             D.N.S. (Apol)

26.       Marcus Edwards         D.N.S. )Apol)

            Salim Mohamed          D.N.S. (Apol)