Club Notes - 7th June 2004

It appears that my pleas for contributions from Club members in my last Club notes fell on deaf ears or more correctly eyes as yet again we had no results to put in, even the 5 which I attended the results ended up on the wrong side of the super highway, which is why there was no report in last weeks paper, and not because I was sulking after my bike broke in the 5 more of which later.

First this week a belated result of the Nova Cycling Club open 25 that took place way back on the 5^th of June Leek Cyclist Club/ Den Engels Belgium Bar supplied 3 riders Marc Briand who along with yours truly is having a season of more downs than ups finished in 1-05-21 for 63^rd place, a much better ride was had by Mark Poyser whose decision to concentrate on solely weekend races seems to be paying of as he improved from a middling 59 minute ride in the interclub 25 (sorry cant be more exact as non of the parties have deemed to let me know) to a 58 – 48 and a position just outside the top 10 at 14. However Leeks' leading rider once again was Richard Brooks who set another personal best time of 56-58 for 5^th place behind event winner Nick Giles who covered the Standard one and a half times round the Cheshire plains course in a scorching 55-47. Richs’ current run of form would put n=him favourite in the recent club championships unfortunately Rich can’t get out in the week which would leave the competitions wide open, Unfortunately what with the reduced membership and folk tied up with the organising side especially for the 5 actual number of members taking part in the championships so far have only been 3! Starting with the 5 and overall numbers were down a lot from last years with only 14 riders taking part in the race YT, Dave Butterworth and Kevin Pickford being the three from Leek CC with Dave coming out on top and Kevin 2^nd. Yours truly coming home in the car after snapping a relatively new i.e. less than two-dozen events old steering adapter. The full results and times were: -

1	Adam Kenway	Tunstall Wheelers	11.32
2	Pat Kinch	Churnet Valley Velo	11.48
3	Karl Austin	Congleton CC	12.14
4	Dave Bridden	Churnet Valley Velo	13.18
5	Andrew Malbin	Congleton CC	13.23
6	Stuart Cope	Churnet Valley Velo	13.39
7	Graham Hill	Stone Wheelers	13.45
8	Georgina Rowson	Team Luciano	13.58
9	Phil Jones	Macclesfield Wheelers	14.06
10	Dave Butterworth	Leek CC *1st Leek CC rider – 5 mile champion*	14.12
11	Sue Rowson	Macclesfield Wheelers	15.01
=12	Kevin Pickford	Leek CC	15.02
=12	Robbie Gould	Unattached	15.02
	Kelvin Milward	Leek CC	DNF