Velo Club Baracchi conceded victory to Gt Yarmouth CC in the last event of this year’s Holmes Cup competition on Sunday. The pattern of previous years had been repeated, with a big lead for VCB in the 10-mile scratch time trial in May, which was cut down by Yarmouth’s points in the 25-mile handicap one. […]
The informal and low key Keith Stephens Memorial Duathlon on Sunday was won by Liam Gentry of Velo Club Baracchi, just one second outside the course record set by Lee Cook. Lee Cook did not defend his title of last year and the year before. Billed as two 5km runs with a 25km cycle ride […]
Chris Womack rode a personal best 30-mile time trial time of 1-10:48 in the Leo Road Club and VTTA open event on Saturday. It was a warm day on the E2/30 course near Newmarket in Cambridgeshire and Velo Club Baracchi 68-year-old veteran Womack said there was “no wind, for a change.” Many good times were […]
Mark Richards of Velo Club Baracchi achieved 21:54 for ninth place among a big collection of sub-22-minute times in the East Anglian CC open 10-mile time trial on the A143 Bungay bypass. Club-mate James Moore had a very good ride as well, with 22:44, but Chris Womack was disappointed with his time of 25:00, not […]
All the Velo Club Baracchi riders in Sunday’s CC Breckland open 50-mile time trial on the A11 came away with personal bests. Mark Richards only missed out on a club record by nine seconds with his 1-52:47 top-twenty result and James Moore 1-57:06 was a strong ride in the top thirty. John Swanbury and Ali […]
Mark Richards and James Moore rode well in the Old Buckenham Village Green ‘Tour of Britain’ Races, organised by Diss CC with support from Breckland District Council as part of the festivities surrounding the Tour. Richards secured third place in the race for third and fourth cats and Moore was tenth. Darren Rutterford (Aylsham Road […]
Triathlete Joe Skipper kept his cycling sharp with a third place for Rock Estate in the BDCA 100-mile time trial in the Etwall and Uttoxeter areas, west of Derby and he went for a run afterwards. Skipper’s time was an excellent 3-33:41, behind Charles Taylor of South Pennine CC 3-23:31 and Adam Topham of High […]
The Velo Club Baracchi 25-mile time trial championship was billed to take place in Godric CC’s Saturday club time trial and just two of the club’s riders were there. Richards impressed with a strong ride in 57:40 to win the title and John Swanbury was pleased to be the runner-up with his 1-04:45 ride. It […]
Kate Churchill of Velo Club Baracchi has just returned from the Paris-Brest-Paris Randonneur, having ridden 1,230 kilometres (just over 760 miles) in less than eighty hours. There were about 6,000 riders. The start was from the National Velodrome at St Quentin-en-Yvelines, a suburb to the south-west of Paris and near Versailles. Churchill said, “We were […]
Three generations of the family Womack took part for Velo Club Baracchi in Gt Yarmouth CC’s penultimate Thursday evening 8.25-mile time trial last week. Chris Womack achieved 22:09, followed by his son Mark in 22:37 and grandson Josh in 27:37. Mark Richards was VCB’s fastest rider, second in the event in 19:14, which is just […]
Mark Richards of Velo Club Baracchi made an assault on the club’s record books with a 1-06:55 ride in the CC Breckland open 30-mile time trial on the A11 road on Sunday. Not only did it win him the VCB 30-mile championship but Richards’ personal best dramatically overtook Karl Read’s 1998 club record of 1-09:10. […]
Mark Richards of Velo Club Baracchi achieved another top ten finish, riding in the Stowmarket & District CC Mid Suffolk Road Race on Sunday. The race for categories 3 and 4 was over eight laps of the 6.3-mile circuit. After he had gone in an earlier break that was stopped by the race director because […]
Mark Richards of Velo Club Baracchi paved the way for a resurgence of road racing in the club by earning his third cat racing licence with results at the Lotus League series at Hethel. All riders start as fourth category riders until they move up the categories. Richards, with a third place and a fourth […]
Mark Richards is the worthy winner of two of the Velo Club Baracchi championships, at the very different disciplines of 10 miles and 100 miles. The hard-fought Velo Club Baracchi 10-mile championship was ridden within last week’s Godric CC club time trial at Earsham, as well as the event as a whole. Nine of the […]
On Sunday some early rain at the start of the Diss CC open 25 on the A1066 from Bressingham to the Thetford roundabout and back soon stopped and became a good morning for the event. Paul Dennington was the quickest Velo Club Baracchi solo rider with 59:16, just ahead of the VCB tandem pair, John […]
Alongside the East Anglian VTTA event on the A11 on Wednesday a separate event was created for non-veterans, in which VCB’s Mark Richards had a splendid 21:45 ride. It was not quite as special, however, as the personal best time of Joe Skipper (Rock Estate) of 19:54, to win this separate event. John Thompson rode […]
Chris Womack of Velo Club Baracchi did the club proud with his ride in the national 100-mile time trial championship in Monmouthshire at 21.4mph. He achieved a time of 4-41:04 on the course between Abergavenny and Monmouth and for the last twenty-five miles battled heavy rain and strong winds. This was not as fast as […]
This year’s Baracchi Trophy two-up time trial may have been a low key affair, with only one VCB team on the line in the Godric CC 25-mile club event, but it produced a stunning ride. Despite the lack of pressure from any competing riders Liam Gentry and Mark Richards kept the event very much alive […]
Local rider Joe Skipper of Rock Estate won the Velo Club Baracchi open 50-mile time trial with a course record and VCB rider Mark Richards was in the top ten. The course covers the ground between the Redenhall and Stockton roundabouts twice and is not a fast one. The day itself was not an ideal […]
An exceptional day on Saturday for fast times, albeit a wet one, gave John Swanbury of Velo Club Baracchi the opportunity to ride a new 50-mile personal best time. Despite some rain the East Anglian Veteran Time Trials Association event on the A11, A14 and B1085 went ahead and with low pressure conditions and almost […]
Velo Club Baracchi rider Kate Churchill has completed the last ride needed to qualify for the Paris Brest Paris Randoneur in August. In the recent Flatlands 600 km event she joined around 150 other participants at Great Dunmow in Essex for the 6am start on a Saturday morning. She previously rode Audax events of 200, […]