Club 10 TT Series: Week 6 results

Foz sends in his report for last week's club 10: The weather was warm, bright and still. Until tea-time. When it rained. And we rode. Cleared up beautifully last thing too, so it was only a wet couple of hours.
Despite that, 11 rode with 5 new PBs and a new member joining on the night - welcome to Allan McCrimmon and congratulations on beating me by a single second on your first night . Matt took the honours again though it looks like Stevie might well be on his case having joined the elite '24 club' in emphatic style. Ross's time also stands out in such soggy conditions. Thanks to Andy and Sadiq for running things so well. Here are the times & league positions.

Week 6 results
1 M Ball 24.26
2 S McDowall 24.47
3 R Dewar 25.46
4 T Bauer 26.51
5 C Sinclair 26.56
6 B Young 27.02
7 D Campbell 28.52
8 A Brown 29.12
9 A McCrimmon 29.25
10 G Foster 29.26
11 S Fraser 29.55

League positions
Matt Ball extends his lead at the top but Ross Dewar moves into second place overall, pushing John McComisky down into 3rd and Bill Young is starting to make his move up the rankings to fourth.
Julie Dominguez, in 15th place overall, leads the Women's competition from Denise Schofield in second place, this competition is wide open and other women in the club still have a chance of winning if they come along on a Thursday.
Entering the TT is the key to a high league placing, the more times participants enter the time trials the more chance of getting points. Were not half way through the season yet so there is still time to climb up the table.

M Ball 118
R Dewar 82
J McComisky 77
B Young 77
G Gilhooly 74
S Mir 71.5
T Bauer 70
G Foster 55
S McDowall 55
D Campbell 51
A Brown 47
G Thomson 43
C Sinclair 43
S Fraser 41
J Dominguez 40
M Paul 40
D Hamill 38
M Ewing 36.5
R Simpson 34
A Hemingway 31
A Richards 29
M Ewart 28
D McTurk 22
D Schofield 19
A McCrimmon 12
S Waldron 11
M Muir 10
B Campbell 8
R Duffy 7
A Robson 5

Tonight's TT

It looks like it's going to be a fast night tonight, sunny with hardly a breeze. Take a look at the TT guidelines here especially the dos and don'ts and download the risk assessment.

See you there.

10 TT series Week 5

Foz send in this weeks's report:
Matt smashed through the 24 mark, Stevie MacDowall lead the select chasing bunch trying to break 25 having knocked 1.44 off his previous best. Graham Gilhooly and David Hamill also stand out for knocking big chunks out of their previous benchmarks, Denise is getting close to 30 and well done to Blair for his effort in his first ride in the club's series, which has now had 29 Club members taking part. Excellent stuff, see you there next week.

Results Week 5
1 M Ball 23.37
2 S McDowall 25.04
3 G Gilhooly 25.43
4 R Simpson 26.34
5 A Hemingway 27.04
6 B Young 27.09
7 M Paul 27.53
8 D Campbell 28.35
9 J McComisky 28.37
10 D Hamill 28.52
11 S Fraser 29.38
12 D Schofield 30.21
13 B Campbell 32.53

League placings
Men & women are now in the same league, Ladies Cup to the highest placed woman.
M Ball 98
J McComisky 77
G Gilhooly 74
B Young 62
T Bauer 53
R Dewar 47
G Foster 44
G Thomson 43
J Dominguez 40 (W)
M Paul 40
D McTurk 39
D Hamill 38
S Mir 37.5
D Campbell 37
M Ewing 36.5
S McDowall 36
R Simpson 34
A Brown 34
S Fraser 31
A Hemingway 31
M Ewart 28
C Sinclair 22
D Schofield 19
A Richards 11
S Waldron 11
M Muir 10
B Campbell 8
R Duffy 7
A Robson 5

Weekly 10TT series - week 4 Results

Last Thursday 10 riders and almost as many spectators turned up and enjoyed the best weather so far this year. Side winds from the South West made the return leg a little tougher, nevertheless many riders recorded personal best times and the clubs course record was broken for the second consecutive week. Steve Waldron rode his first TT of the series and put in a cracking ride after coming back from a bad crash earlier in the year, Graham continues to improve and still hasn't invested in tribars and Craig knocked almost 4 minutes off his previous best ride for the course - well done everyone

Ross said "Many hanks to Grant and Sadiq for there help, it was also nice to see all the spectators. Yes, my time was a PB my last best time was 26.45 so a good bit faster. I think it's down to getting dragged around on the Tuesday runs!"

Result - Week 4
1st Matt Ball - 24.10
2nd Graham Gillooly - 26.26 (PB)
3rd Ross Dewar - 26.28 (PB)
4th Craig Sinclair - 26.31 (PB)
5th Der Kaiser- 26.57 (PB?)
6th Deano - 27.55 (PB)
7th John McComisky - 28.05
8th Joolz - 28.38 (PB?)
9th Steve Fraser - 30.09 (PB?)
10th Steve Waldron - 30.33 (PB?)

New League position will be posted later...

10 TT WEEK 3 RESULTS: Thursday 21st May

Organiser Graham sent in this report "Best night of the three so far, bright with a bit of a bustling westerly chasing the heavy daytime showers over the horizon. Turnout was exellent again - 18 - and we must be pretty close to half of the club's membership having come along to take part, which is what WLC is all about. A few firsts tonight: a few first rides, our first sub 25 by Matt Ball (with Sadiq Mir being well within range of that same breakthrough) and, I think, our first fixie attempt at the course by new member Matt Muir. Add to that a wide range of PB's and other great efforts all round."

The women's competition is hotting up, with only 1 point separating the leaders and Denise is getting stronger each week, smashing her PB by 30 seconds last night.

New member Matt Muir said "Was great to be out on the road again tonight. Hadn't realised I was the first to record a time on fixed (Does this count as a club record then? just kidding!)."
Ross said "That was a good night tonight. Great that we got some better weather. Thanks to Foz and JMC for there much appreciated help. Also thanks to Matt for his words of encouragement out on the course."

Week 3 results
1 Matt Ball 24.18
2 Sadiq Mir 25.09
3 Mark Ewing 25.39
4 Steve McDowall 26.48
5 Ross Dewar 27.15
6 Mike Ewart 27.36
7 Bill Young 28.02
8 Grant Thomson 28.03
9 Mark Paul 28.09
10 Dave McTurk 28.25
11 Matt Muir 28.42
12 Dean Campbell 28.58
13 John McComisky 29.20
14 Andy Brown 29.38
15 Dick Duffy 29.42
16 Dave Hamill 30.26
17 Steve Fraser 30.44
18 Denise Schofield 30.56

Men's league positions after 3 events
Matt Ball 57
John McComisky 51
Ross Dewar 48
Bill Young 47
Graham Foster 45
Sadiq Mir 37.5
Graham Gilhooly 37
Mark Ewing 36.5
Dave Hamill 29
Mike Ewart 28
Mark Paul 26
Grant Thomson 26
Dave McTurk 23
Tobias Bauer 19
Andy Brown 18
Steve McDowall 17
Bob Simpson 17
Andy Hemingway 15
Andy Richards 12
Craig Sinclair 11
Steve Fraser 11
Matt Muir 10
Dean Campbell 9
Anth Robson 7
Dick Duffy 7

Women's league positions after 3 events
J Dominguez 40
D Schofield 39

Club 10 Series: Race 2

Organiser, Graham Foster sends in the event report: Another great night, with 17 taking part. Conditions were significantly better than last week, bright and a little warmer with a bustling easterly, which led to a few week-old PBs being beaten and some newbies setting their own initial benchmarks. Myself included - 30 minutes dead was a bit frustrating but it's all experience and I give myself credit for not boaking into a hedge at the end
Anyway - down to the times - I'll post up the league position when I have more time. First of all - Andy Brown and Craig Sinclair - your times were adjusted after a second look at the timesheet highlighted a wee error. You were actually both under 30 - good effort!
Big congratulations to Graham Gilhooly for knocking a minute off last week's time to claim top points this week. Tobias 'Technik' Bauer played Jan to his Lance on his new Planet X bling. But even further down the order, the buzz suggested that there were a lot of personal performances to be proud of tonight and perhaps a lot of targets for the season being set?

1 Graham Gilhooly 27.02
2 Tobias Bauer 27.19
3 John McComisky 27.22
4 Bob Simpson 27.39
5 Bill Young 27.45
6 Andy Hemingway 28.03
7 Mark Paul 28.08
8 Mike Ewart 28.26
9 Julie Dominguez 28.50
10 Dave McTurk 28.58
11 Craig Sinclair 29.45
12 Andy Brown 29.49
13 Graham Foster 30.00
14 Dave Hamill 30.38
15 Denise Schofield 31.25
16 Anthony Robson 31.31
17 Steven Fraser 31.42

Men's league
Matthew Ball 37
Graham Gilhooly 37
John McComisky 34
Bill Young 33
Ross Dewar 32
Graham Foster 27
Dave Hamill 23
Tobias Bauer 19
Mark Ewing 18.5
Sadiq Mir 18.5
Bob Simpson 17
Andy Hemingway 15
Mark Paul 14
Grant Thomson 13
Mike Ewart 13
Andy Richards 12
Dave McTurk 12
Craig Sinclair 11
Andy Brown 10
Anth Robson 7
Steve Fraser 6

Women's league
Julie Dominguez 40
Denise Schofield 19

Loads of opinion and comment on the thread for this week's race
More Pictures of the night on Flickr
Event details and instructions here
Sign up for marshalling duties here - select a week and add your name

Time trail series starts on 7th May.

Some news from Graham Foster, the club TT co-ordinator.
"The club TT series starts next week, on Thursday 7th May. The 10 TT thread on the club Forum will be the main source of information throughout the series so keep up with it regularly. The way it will work will be that a separate thread will be set up for each week of the series, so if you look at Week 1 and Week 2 which are already up, you'll see an announcement of the TT and a call for volunteers - in time you'll see results and the resulting league positions coming through week by week.

In the meantime, get out and train, read the guidance here especially the risk assessment and look forward to seeing you there."

TT series starts Thursday 7th May

Graham Foster
Originally uploaded by westlothianclarion

Message from Graham 'Foz' Foster explaining the TT series and calling for volunteer marshals and time keepers

Boots!
First of all I'm glad to see so much excitement building up about the club TT which starts on Thursday 7th May and continues through to the end of August. If you've not read it yet, please have a look at the general briefing here especially the attached Risk Assessment.

Volunteers
Each TT will need a minimum of two volunteers. A timekeeper and push-off/timekeepers assistant. No volunteers, no TT. In terms of timekeeping my plan is to start off with a core (I'm thinking 7 or 8) who have had some timekeeping training and can rotate this role. Others can help out in other ways and learn from timekeepers as they go, so we have more and more that can do this job themselves.

So I would like to be able to keep a list of people who would be prepared to volunteer at some point. If you plan to ride the TT you should aim to volunteer at least a couple of times – bear in mind you will get League points just for helping out and munching crispie-cake while others are bowfing their lungs up!
If you want to be on this list please email me treasurer@westlothianclarion.co.uk with your email address and phone number (pref mobile) withing the next couple of weeks or so. I will of course only hold and issue these details for the purposes of running the TT.

Once I have a circulation list I can then start circulating emails and asking for volunteers for each week on a rolling basis, probably about a fortnight in advance. I'm hoping to be able to help cover the first one as I'm riding the Bealach Beag two days later.

Secondly. Jimmy Harris has very kindly volunteered to train some of us in the art of timekeeping, round my house (Reddingmuirhead) at 7:30 on Thursday 16th April. Me, Grant and Matt are planning to be there and we can probably fit another 4 or 5 into my front room. If you want to take part in this training could you please mention this in your email. I'll email you back if I can fit you in – first come first served. Thanks.

As a closing thought – I was out in summer shorts and short sleeves today on my new carbon Cannondale. In the first week of April. And I really, really reckon we're due a proper summer this time.....
Spurs!
Foz

Boxing Day 10 Report

It was almost a perfect day for a race - A bit chilly but no ice and no wind. Brian Bernard won the '10' with a time of 28.12, Bob Simpson came second with 31.57 narrowly piping Mark Paul by 30 seconds to third place. Grant Thomson came in fourth with a time of 34.24 but he rode out to the event and back. Brian looked like he was holding back too, crossing the line with his hands on the brake hoods! There were even spectators watching the race. (Hello to Ron and Anette!) Thanks to Allan and Mike for help pushing off and marshalling. So thats our first event over and done with, It couldn't have been organised without all the background help from Allan, Tobias, Graham, James at the SCU and Ian and Steve from the Clarion. Plus an extra big thankyou to the National Clarion for loaning us the equipment

Roll on May when we start the weekly 10s!