East Lancs RC report

Alex Wiseman in the Pimbo Road Race

Most East Lancs riders ventured back into the Cheshire lanes last weekend for the second round of the M&DTTA Juvenile and Junior time trial championships.

The course for the 10 mile TT was the J2/3, which starts on Twemlow Lane near Holmes Chapel, and then joins the A535 heading north to Chelford Island, where it retraces the roundabout returns south to finish near the Yellow Broom restaurant. There was a southerly wind which made the ride out to Chelford faster than normal on this slightly undulating course.

The East Lancs won fastest Juvenile through Oliver Makinsons fine effort and the Team Prize through Alex Trippier, Paul Ashworth and Andy Gorton.

The times recorded by the whole East Lancs team were as follows; Tom Bland, 35:56mins; Noah Codling, 29:28mins; Jack Miller, 30:51mins; Niamh Coulter, 34:47mins; Oliver Makinson, 26:05mins; Alex Wiseman, 26:34mins; Josh Decamps, 29:07mins, Alex Trippier, 24:56mins, Paul Ashworth, 25:35mins, Bill Howarth, 27:49mins, Ian Miller, 32:43mins, David Ireland, 27:01mins, Mike Coulter, 31:05mins, Jason Codling, 26:47mins, Darryl Nolan, 30:34mins, and finally Andy Gorton with the Club’s fastest of the day at 23:54mins.

The following day Junior riders Alex Trippier and Alex Wiseman rode the Duncan Sparrow Road Race at Pimbo.

The third/fourth cat race was 50 miles long and a big step up in distance for both riders. However both coped well looking comfortable with the pace and both finished in the bunch sprint. In the elite/1st/2nd cat race Ben Trippier was the Club’s sole rider and he coped similarly well with the higher pace of this race at an average 29mph being set by the Pedal Heaven Pro team, who ultimately took all the honours with five out of the top six places including the win by the country’s top rider at present, James Gullen, with Ben being happy with a mid placed bunch sprint.

In the Monday evening ACT Track League at the Manchester Velodrome things are coming to the boil nicely for the East Lancs. The season is coming to an end at Easter and it is looking ever likely that the Club’s Oliver Huszar is going to take the honours with an impressive win.

Oliver has featured in most Monday evening sessions and has accrued 57 points to lead by an unassailable margin and in addition leads the Madison on 12 points in a similar position, Oliver is hopeful his track season will come to a successful end at the Easter Monday meeting.