Ashman Handicap

Superb weather greeted the 21 riders ready to test themselves for the Ashman Trophy over 2 circuits of the Abbotsley course, and given the heat, many were thinking about how to pace themselves over the 22.4 mile circuit.

 

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To have a chance of winning you needed to ride at least to your handicap (twice the single circuit handicap) or better this. With a standard of 50 minutes the winning handicap time would be around the 50 minutes or sub 50 minutes for those able to beat their handicap on the day.

Although 21 signed on, only 17, for various reasons, finished the 2 laps. George Lendrum punctured in the warm up, Darren Preston came off on his second circuit at the Y junction turn to the golf course suffering cuts and bruises to his right side, and Steve Seeby decided that one lap was enough as did Wayne Tunnah.

The Ashman Trophy has been fought for in the Club since 1938 and although a bit battered and scarred it has been competed for on a regular basis since then, including all through the Second World War.

IMG 2940Many congratulations to Chris Goodsall, in his first season with the club, for taking the trophy in it’s 75th Anniversary Year.  Chris’s victory was secured with a PB on his first lap allowing him to take the trophy with a Handicap Time of 50.06. Second place went to Tom Stead with a 51.04 and third place to Richard Hancock with a 51.08 handicap time.

It is always interesting to look at the difference in the times between Lap 1 and Lap 2  (see Table 2) given that on the second lap the riders have a “flying start” and find out which was the quicker lap. 4 riders were quicker on their second lap today.

A very good effort by all riders today for taking part in a format that many are not used to and for coping with the weather (makes a change to be mentioning good instead of poor weather).

 

 

 

 

 

Actual  Handicap  Handicap  Handicap 
Time  Time  Points 
1 Chris Goodsall 68:48:00 18:42:00 50:06:00 17
2 Tom  Stead 52:12:00 1:08:00 51:04:00 16
3 Richard  Hancock 51:54:00 0:46:00 51:08:00 15
4 Mick Lawerence 59:02:00 7:12:00 51:50:00 14
5 Simon Richardson 66:35:00 14:32:00 52:03:00 13
6 Chris Ritchie 54:34:00 2:26:00 52:08:00 12
7 James  Thomas 68:24:00 16:12:00 52:12:00 11
8 Joe Finucane 56:33:00 4:14:00 52:19:00 10
9 Ruth  Stapleton 72:11:00 19:32:00 52:39:00 9
10 Keith  Ritchie 62:49:00 10:06:00 52:43:00 8
11 Jon Keefe 68:39:00 15:54:00 52:45:00 7
12 Andy  Holt 75:18:00 22:28:00 52:50:00 6
13 Mark  Greenhow 64:34:00 11:18:00 53:16:00 5
14 Alistair  Henderson  66:16:00 12:54:00 53:22:00 4
15 Adrian Taverna 60:42:00 6:26:00 54:16:00 3
16 Steve  Rodley 64:23:00 8:44:00 55:39:00 2
17 Florenece  Lendrum  80:54:00 24:54:00 56:00:00 1



 

Fastest time - scratch competition

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This year the Club decided to offer a Trophy for the fastest time on the day and this was a closely contested between the old warrior Richard Hancock and the 16 year old Tom Stead. As you will see from the split times Tom edged the first lap by 4 seconds. However Richard powered through to take the second lap by 22 seconds and win by 18 seconds. Chris Ritchie was in 3rd place with an excellent 54.34. These are the three fastest times over the past 10 years for this event and this trio recently represented GB at the European Sprint Triathlon. Well done for some great times and Richard’s average of 26 mph over an undulating, sporting course.

 

Also well done to Joe and Mick for being sub 30 minutes on both laps and Keith Ritchie knows what he has to do now to catch to catch his son Chris at next years event.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

First

Second

 

 

 

 

 

Lap

Lap

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1

Richard

Hancock

51.54

 

25.58

25.56

2

Tom

Stead

52.12

 

25.54

26.18

3

Chris

Ritchie

54.34

 

27.15

27.19

4

Joe

Finucane

56.33

 

27.55

28.38

5

Mick

Lawrence

59.02

 

29.11

29.51

6

Adrian

Taverna

60.42

 

30.31

30.11

7

Keith

Ritchie

62.49

 

30.45

   32.04

8

Steve

Rodley

64.23

 

31.05

33.18

9

Mark

Greenhow

64.34

 

32.02

32.32

10

Alistair

Henderson

66.16

 

33.03

33.13

11

Simon

Richardson

66.35

 

32.48

33.47

12

James

Thomas

68.24

 

33.33

34.51

13

Jon

Keefe

68.39

 

34.28

34.11

14

Chris

Goodsall

68.48

 

33.45

35.03

15

Ruth

Stapleton

72.11

 

36.28

35.43

16

Andy

Holt

75.18

 

37.20

39.58

17

Florenece

Lendrum

80.54

 

38.24

42.30

18

Steve

Seeby

 

 

33.48

DNF

19

Darren

Preston

 

 

28.25

DNF

20

Wayne

Tunnah

 

 

 

DNF

 

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Handicap Trophy

At the moment, the contest for this Trophy still looks like it will be between Jon and Adrian with only one point separating them today leaving Jon with a lead of 21.50 points.

However with 7 TTs left for this season there are still plenty of points available for the chasing peleton.

 

 

 

11/07/2013

13/07/2013

1

Jon

Keefe

125.00

129.00

2

Adrian

Taverna

103.50

107.50

3

Gareth

Smith

100.00

100.00

4

Dan

Baxter

96.00

96.00

5

Jonathan

Pang

84.00

84.00

6

Chris

Ritchie

62.00

77.50

7

Darren

Preston

73.00

73.00

8

Tom

Stead

49.00

65.00

9

David

Lindsay

59.00

59.00

10

Chris

Goodsall

32.00

49.00

11

David

Smith

46.00

46.00

12

David

Wilson

41.00

41.00

13

Mark

Greenhow

35.00

41.00

14

Trevor

Porter

39.50

39.50

15

George

Lendrum

38.50

38.50

16

Stephen

Lyons

37.00

37.00

17

Mick

Lawrence

23.00

37.00

18

Richard

Hancock

17.50

32.50

19

Steve

Rodley

29.50

31.50

20

Craig

Jallal

31.00

31.00

21

Leon

Bradford

30.00

30.00

22

Lewis

Rooney

29.00

29.00

23

Ian

Gerrard

27.00

27.00

24

Yvonne

Cosbie

26.00

26.00

25

Alistair

Henderson

21.00

26.00

26

Ashley

Cooper

25.00

25.00

27

Daniel

King

24.00

24.00

28

Lee

Radley

23.00

23.00

29

Andrew

Kluth

23.00

23.00

30

Stuart

West

19.00

19.00

31

Steve

Muchmore

18.00

18.00

32

Ian

Turner

17.00

17.00

33

Florence

Lendrum

16.00

17.00

34

Adrian

Lancaster

15.00

15.00

35

Adrian

Bloxham

15.00

15.00

36

Simon

Richardson

73.00

13.00

37

Tim

Pennell

13.00

13.00

38

Ed

Cosbie

12.00

12.00

39

Wayne

Tunnah

12.00

12.00

40

Steve

Pleasance

12.00

12.00

41

Mark

Colmer

12.00

12.00

42

Rob

Black

11.00

11.00

43

Chris

Preston

11.00

11.00

44

Ruth

Stapleton

2.00

11.00

45

Jane

Kinnaird

10.00

10.00

46

Phil

Laycock

10.00

10.00

47

Hastan

Brooks

8.00

8.00

48

Keith

Ritchie

 

8.00

49

Andy

Holt

7.00

7.00

50

Richard

Ostler

4.00

4.00

51

David

Standring

2.00

2.00

52

Jeremy

Griggs

2.00

2.00