A beautiful warm sunny morning greeted the following club riders to contest the championship. It was a little more gusty than the forecast suggested but it made for a great tail wind at times.

Andrew Payne - 01:09:29

Joe Francis - 01:11:20

Mike Henley - 01:16:57

Stu Auckland - DNF - punctured at ~29 miles. What a shame as at the half way point I was in the top 3 which were seperated by ~30 seconds. At least the walk back was short, sunny and flat :-)

For the 4^th year running a group from the club made a trip to Sweden last weekend for the Vätternrundan.  This year's team was Sarah, Magnus, Dave B and me.

This weekend saw several of our members doing open timetrials.

Saturday afternoon

Stuart Auckland 21.01 on the E2/10 in Essex  - I'm sure he would loved to be 2 seconds quicker

Andrew Payne  22.17 on H17/10r and hoped to do a 21.xx but best ride of the year so far.

Sunday morning

Joe Francis 2:02:19 on the H50/8 Bentley course and had hoped to going under 2hour for the first time

Mike Henley 2:08:29 on H50/8

Neither liked the brisk easterly wind.

There was a good turnout of 19 members and guests at Bird Hills Golf Club on Sunday for our seventh annual 50 mile Reliability Ride on a circular route to the south of Maidenhead.  This included regulars from the two Sunday club runs as well as some less familiar faces.  Before we started there was a perfect demonstration of how to fall off when wearing new cleats by one member in the car park, but as far as I knew this proved to be the day’s only mishap.  At the designated start time of 8:45 a group of faster riders set off followed not long after by the rest of us.