MDCC's Pete Weir finished 8th on Saturday in the Methyr CC's 25 on the fast South Wales course. His time of 51:59 just scraped inside 52 minutes. This is his fastest time this year and only 1 minute 24 secs outside his all time pb and current MDCC Club record  of 50:35 set on a faster  variant of the course last year.

A warm muggy afternoon yesterday saw only three MDCC riders competing for the Tony Deadman Trophy for the MDCC '30' mile TT Championship.
At the race HQ in Bentley, riders discussed whether to carry water bottles or not, lesser souls  took water bottles, some took two, the elite riders looked as if they were not carrying any. The first 7 miles out towards Alton was into a slight head wind, then after the turn at Chawton roundabout, good use was made of the slight tail wind to speed back  towards Farnham.

On a clear evening with the wind dropping for later riders we had a good turnout of 44 riders for our Thursday evening '10' on the Thicket course. Pete Weir triumphed again with 21:22 which could have been quicker as he had to battle the early blowey conditions as first man off.  He also had some problems  at the National '10' on Sunday which lost him some time, breaking a spoke 2 miles from the finish and then mistaking the finish line and sitting up too early.

Andrew Payne Clinches the Sporting  Courses Championship

The Derek Addaway Trophy was won yesterday by Andrew Payne with an excellent 6th place in the Hilly '15', finishing in 35:07 .Together with his  1:15:07  ride in the Hilly '30' Andrew completed both events with an average speed of 24.01 mph.