Time Keeper: Jon Thorne

Time Keeper Assistant: Gary Carter

Marshals: Graham Rice at Sywell Roundabout with Adrian Gorham, snapping photos)

A big thanks to them, as without them the event would not be able to go ahead

Early sun camouflages the freezingly cold temperature!

Weather: Overcast clouds, 4°C, Feels like 1°C, Humidity 70%, Wind 3mph from NE – by Klimat.app

The first of our fast A43 time trials, this early season race is a marker of fitness for many of the quicker riders setting out the fitness achieved over the winter months, tweaks in position, kit and the efforts of hours on the turbo. The weather leading up to race day had been bitterly cold, frosty, looking like it should be 10° warmer with the long sun rays across the roads. 16 riders signed up and turned up to ride, a noticably change to the last races on Grafton, being a flatish course, the majority on TT bikes. All riders safely made it round the course, having seen Noel at the finish, I did not realise he was a DNF, not sure what happened, but he was safe and sound.

The road surface was really good for the pounding the traffic usually gives the A43, a sign of lockdown and reduced traffic numbers no doubt, the only hazard was the Mawsley roundabout on the outward stretch with rough, broken tarmac and a few shallow pot holes in the racing line, which did not affect the quick times.

Here’s the league championship results

KCC Riders

Aero proved the master of this course, with the fastest time from Andy Fairly, taking first with 22:35, followed by Rob Barker 23:01 and a battle for third, that Chris Old took by just 3 seconds crossing the line 23:48 as Andy King crossed at 23:41.

Representing the Ladies, Sue Rust producing a strong ride of 25:24 took first place, with Maria Gent, 27:12.

Chris Duckworth, produced a powerful ride on his road bike with 26:12.

Guest Riders

The guest riders, produced the fastest times of the morning, GFCS team mates, George Fox, 20:14 and Jack Patmore 22:16 stole the overall win, fantastic rides, with Warren Drew, 3rd 23:55, and Stu Plows on his road bike powering over the line with a 25:12.

KCC Results. Use the arrows to sort columns.

Guest Results. Use the arrows to sort columns.

Photographs

Thank you Adrian Gorham for snapping away and taking photos of the morning, they can be found on our facebook feed.