Quality rides by VC Baracchi riders

 

An impressive week of results for Velo Club Baracchi riders included quality rides by John Dupen, Paul Dennington and Chris Womack as well as strong rides by up-and-coming riders.

John Dupen’s ride in Sunday’s VC Norwich open 25-mile time trial (on the A11 south of Attleborough) was one of the most notable, with a cracking time of 58:32, earning him second place in the veteran “B” category.

Chris Womack, faster than in last year’s version of this event, achieved 1-00:34 and first prize in the veteran “C” category.

John Thompson rode a little more strongly than of late with 1-12:01. Former VCB members Ian McCluskey, riding for Diss, and Mark Newnham ( Anglia Velo), achieved 1-00:11 and 1-03:28 respectively.

The winner was Matthew Smith of Team VeloVelocity with 51:00 and James Trenchard of Godricc CC took second in 53:20.  The tandem team of Glenn Taylor (Shorter Rochford) and Mark Arnold (CC Desiragear) zipped round in 46:58.

In the VC Baracchi May Day open 10-mile time trial from Redenhall, the fastest of the VCB riders was Paul Dennington with a personal best of 22:37. He is aiming for a “21” this year.

The club times were Dennington 22:37, Dupen 23:13, Mark “Titch” Richards 24:01, Chris Womack 24:50, John Swanbury 25:05, Steve Summons 25:07, Mark Womack 26:10, Joe Reynolds 27:43 (PB), Steve Grant 27:57, John Thompson 28:54.

The winner was CC Desiragear’s Mark Arnold with 20:22 with Jim Burgess of Anglia Velo second in 20:59 and J Turner of Norwich ABC third in 21:49.  Dupen’s time earned a veteran age standard “plus” of +4:19 for second place behind Brian Davies of Anglia Velo (+4:27).

The event was headlined as the Jane Travers Memorial Trophy, for the ladies, which was won by Nicki Hawkes, riding for Team VeloVelocity.  She rode a course-best 25:53 and Jenny Anderson of Gt Yarmouth CC was second in 26:13.

In Saturday’s King’s Lynn CC open 10, Chris Womack achieved 24:35, which was 53 seconds better than last year, with Thompson at 28:54. Arnold won this one in 20:27, with Daniel Bloy of Kings Lynn CC second in 21:29 and Andre Dyason of Team Swift third in 21.55.

Some of the club’s riders achieved fast rides in last week’s Godric CC club 10.  Club times were John Dupen 22:34, Mark Richards 23:42, John Swanbury 24:27, Chris Womack 24:47, Mark Womack 26:10 and John Thompson 28:35.  The winner was Jim Burgess of Anglia Velo with 20:43.

In the Gt Yarmouth club 10 last Thursday Richards was the quickest VCB rider with 25:07 and others were Dennington 26:06, Summons 26:07, Darren Newman 26:52 and Mark Womack 27:06.  Joe Skipper won in 22:28 for Norwich Cycling Academy.

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