Sam French
Photo by Ken Norbury
The clubs evening TT season opener, the 9.5 mile circuit of The Cloud, took place on Tuesday April 8th. Thirty seven competitors took on the course in fine but cool conditions. The fastest time of 27:28 was done by junior Alex Braybrooke of Team Velocity WD40. He beat professional Andy Magnier of Velosure Giordana 27:35 into second place with the “podium” rounded out by our own Ben Norbury 28:20. 27:28 is an event record time and may be a course record as well. Ben was also the best club member in the new handicap competition with a nett 25:36.
Best Congleton lady was Sharon May in 43:17. Best Congleton Junior was Sam French in 35:00 and best Congleton veteran was Steve Hulme in 29:24.
Full results can be seen here. Also photos thanks to Ken Norbury.
There were some sore legs on the start line. Mike Jones and Edgar Reynolds completed the 260 km Tour of Flanders Sportif in Belgium on Saturday and Pete Tatton ran under 4 hours in the Manchester Marathon on Sunday.