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Club hill climb 2018
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It's that time of year again! Some of you have eagerly been asking about the club hill climb, so I thought I'd kick things off...
Date: Sunday 18th November, 9.30am
Location: Hatch Lane, Baldock (just the one climb this year to limit the pain and keep it simple!)
If you fancy riding it, amazing! Come along and have the best fun ever. No need to book in advance, just turn up like you would for a Wednesday time trial. If you fancy helping out, even better! We could do with a couple of timekeepers and a pusher-offer, so if some of you aren't sold on the idea that riding this is actually fun then you can always come and volunteer instead.
I'll make a batch of chocolate brownies...I think we'll have earned them!
Date: Sunday 18th November, 9.30am
Location: Hatch Lane, Baldock (just the one climb this year to limit the pain and keep it simple!)
If you fancy riding it, amazing! Come along and have the best fun ever. No need to book in advance, just turn up like you would for a Wednesday time trial. If you fancy helping out, even better! We could do with a couple of timekeepers and a pusher-offer, so if some of you aren't sold on the idea that riding this is actually fun then you can always come and volunteer instead.
I'll make a batch of chocolate brownies...I think we'll have earned them!
Comments
Mitchy - definitely come and ride. Can someone who knows about such things confirm if second claim members are eligible for the club title?
With just a week to go now we do need a couple of timekeepers. This will be a short event so could tie nicely in with a usual Sunday ride - for riders and helpers.
Are any other women planning on riding? I'm very happy to be a timekeeper, but as the club has gone to the trouble of having a separate trophy for the women's club champion it's really important that someone turns up to claim it. Put your name down here or message me directly and I'll happily be timekeeper instead of riding.
How about some added interest for those that perhaps aren't pure hill climbers - special mention for the fastest rider on a mountain bike / fixed gear??
sorry but we won't be able to help out as there is a cx race that day.
Have a good ride :-)
Jackie
Checking in for timekeeping duties, ma'am! Meet at the bottom to synchronise watches, I guess? From about 9.00 a.m.? I may not have a car, though, as mine's going to car hospital...
Thanks to everyone for their offers of riding and helping, and hopefully we’ll see a few more from the 9am club run too. Details as it currently stands…
Hatch Lane in Baldock (off London Road, near the George IV pub)
Sign on from 9am at the bottom of the climb, first rider off 9.30am. £4 each.
Finish is in the middle of the bridge over the A505. Don’t be fooled into easing up too early if you see a car parked in a layby...keep going until you see the chequered flag!
Please be mindful of the local residents. Park away from the start line, and for safety reasons the usual rule of no U-turns in sight of the start line, and no warming up on the hill once the first rider has started.
Andy N - if you could be timekeeper at the finish area that would be great, thank you so much for your offer of help. Dave and I are going to do tag-team timekeeping at the start, and if anyone else can lend a hand holding riders at the start that would be great.
Last year’s results are here for reference - there were some good close battles! ccaforum.co.uk/discussion/6728/cc-ashwell-hill-climb-2017-sun-5-nov
See you tomorrow.
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/28946948
Well done everyone - it was a close battle for the men's title, with Martin taking it by just three seconds from jointly second-placed Dave W and Vincent. Ella did a very fine ride for the junior title (in what was I think her first hill climb?), and I hang on to the women's title.
Dave Mitchinson (Contour RT) - 2:07
Martin Lawless - 2:30
Vincent Friedlander - 2:33
Dave Wells - 2:33
Tim Allen - 2:40
Matt Scales - 2:44
Ethan Storti (Welwyn Wheelers) - 2:48
Jenny Andrews - 2:54
Keith Luetchford - 3:00
Ella Friedlander - 4:03
Next year let's aim for an earlier date (October?) before the cold weather really sets in!
Ethan's time was something special too. Keep it up chap.
Great to see Flamme Rouge there too and the club run support.
Mitchy the bullet. That time was legendary. So fast he had long gone by the time my camera clicked.
Also thanks to all the organisers. Made my day.
Well done all for sticking a number on and having a go. That's what it's all about.
The club-run afterwards was good too. A great morning.
There was no fog about 200 metres north of where we were freezing!