The Start
The headline reads Congleton C.C win Karl Austin Memorial Inter Club 25 mile TT. The annual two leg competition with Macclesfield Wheelers, culminated in a resounding win for Congleton in the second leg on the JC 24 25 mile time trial course. Congleton C.C. had a 6 rider aggregate time of 6 hrs 0 min and 51 sec with Macclesfield Wheelers 6:23:06, giving a margin of 22m:15s on the night to add to the 8m:53s carried from the first leg, which was on on June 3rd.
Our best 6 riders were Ben Norbury 56:55 (PB), Pete Smith 59:07, Rob Dale 59:09 (PB), Wayne Powell 1:01:14, Jamie Willetts 1:2:06 and Pete Tatton 1:02:20. Ben was overall fastest with the next two places taken by George Coglan Janus R.C. 57:39 and Nige Wood wills Wheel 58:07
Best Lady was once again Sue Blake in 1:13:27 from Natalie Abbott (Macclefield Whs)1:13:59 and 25 mile debutante Claire Thompson 1:15:58.
Fastest Congleton Junior was Mark Allen in a PB 1:7:46 from Joe Langford 1:10:20 a PB by 14 minutes which gave a net 35:37 to take top points on handicap this week. Alex Braybrooke (Velocity-WD40) was actual fastest junior in 58:32.
Other notable rides were Steve Sladin 1:5:17, a personal best by over 3 minutes, for second on handicap(net 46:31) with Duncan Poole third 1:8:25 (net 48:20). Edgar Reynolds returned 1:10:22, “fresh” from the National 24 hour championship where he finished on Sunday afternoon with 391 miles (unofficial), despite crashing during the dark hours of Saturday night.
Full Result Here.
Video courtesy of Adrian Penninton.
Photos courtesy of Ken Norbury