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Northumberland | 12 miles | M12S
Jen McMahon (Jadan Vive le Velo) and John Routledge (GTR-Return to Life) proved fastest at the Blaydon CC evening 12-mile time trial in Northumberland, while Marcus Cram (Muckle CC) and Joshua Hodgson (GS Metro) tied for the road bike prize.
McMahon’s time of 31-46 gave her the women’s prize by around two and a half minutes from Justine Norman (Velo Culture), while road biker Angela McGurk (Blaydon CC) was third fastest woman and best on a road bike.
Meanwhile Routledge clocked 26-36 to win overall by 21 seconds from Nick Badcock (Allen Valley Velo) while Phil Hall (Velo Culture) was third, just one second further back.
“I enjoy the M12,” said Routledge. “It’s a nice sporting course, rolling and twisty up towards the quarry and then flatter, faster roads back to the finish.
“I knew I had to go out hard, the first half of the course is all slightly uphill. The predicted headwind back never really came to much thankfully and sounds like I had a bit of luck missing some sheep on the road. Chuffed to get the win for GTR.”
And McMahon said after the event: “I’m very happy to win my first time trial of the season. Being very familiar with the course, I felt confident going into the race knowing the roads well. And the weather was perfect with very little wind.
“I really thought I had gone out too hard at the start but gained a lot of recovery at the top of the quarry to then push hard again from Matfen through to the finish.”
Originally just a road bike event, it was opened up to time trial bikes too with the introduction of road bike categories in all events.
And while weather was perfect for most riders a few did get stopped by a while with a farmer moving some sheep and blocking the road.
Cram and Hodgson tied on 28:22 to win the road bike category, while McGurk won the same category for the females (34:30).
Harris Hall of Velo Culture was the fastest junior rider (27:57) for fifth overall. Keeping it in the family, his father Phil Hall and mother Justine Norman picked up the prizes for fastest male and female veteran on age adjusted time.
And a special mention goes to 12-year-old Derwentside CC rider Matthew Mather who was completing his first time trial on open roads – he rode 32:47 whilst his father Chris Mather completed the course in 30:19.
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Results:
Pos Name Club Gender Cat Time
1 John Routledge GTR - Return to Life P/B Streamline Male Vet 26:36
2 Nick Badcock Allen Valley Velo Male Vet 26:57
3 Phil Hall Velo Culture Male Vet 26:58
4 Zach Haigh Barnesbury CC Male Senior 27:00
5 John Hewison Zurbaran Racing Male Vet 27:52
6 Harris Hall Velo Culture Male Junior 27:57
7 Marcus Cram Muckle Cycle Club Male Senior 28:22
7 Joshua Hodgson GS Metro Male Senior 28:22
9 Simon Crisp Gosforth RC Male Senior 28:32
10 Hedley Fletcher Blaydon CC Male Vet 28:37
11 Jack Smith Vector Racing Male Senior 29:19
12 Mark Whaley Blaydon CC Male Vet 29:31
13 Mark Herbert Derwentside CC Male Vet 29:35
14 Ian Taylor Blumilk.Com Male Vet 29:38
15 Neil Wilkinson Blaydon CC Male Vet 29:41
16 Lee Ridden Reifen Racing Male Vet 29:48
17 Lee McCarron Vector Racing Male Senior 29:51
18 Phil Cook Velo Culture Male Vet 30:18
19 Chris Mather Derwentside CC Male Vet 30:19
20 Dougan Collins Zurbaran Racing Male Vet 30:41
21 Chris Wann EMC Cycling Male Vet 30:54
22 Paul Ryan Northumbria Police C.C. Male Vet 30:57
23 Brian Johnson Reifen Racing Male Vet 31:02
24 Greg Paton-Kerr Allen Valley Velo Male Senior 31:05
25 Keith Sibbald Zeus CRT Male Vet 31:07
26 Matthew Walmsley Cestria C.C. Male Senior 31:26
27 Mal Gray Velo Culture Male Vet 31:37
28 Jen McMahon Jadan Vive Le Velo Female Senior 31:46
29 Andrew Smith Muckle Cycle Club Male Vet 31:51
30 Neil Fellows Blaydon CC Male Vet 31:56
31 Nicholas Stevenson Wearside Triathlon Male Vet 32:01
32 Howie Buckingham Allen Valley Velo Male Vet 32:36
33 Matthew Mather Derwentside CC Male Juvenile 32:47
34 Carl Satterthwaite Blaydon CC Male Vet 32:55
35 Paul Wright Blaydon CC Male Vet 33:40
36 David Lavery North Tyneside Riders CC Male Vet 33:42
37 Andy Delaney Northumbria Police C.C. Male Vet 33:56
38 Justine Norman Velo Culture Female Vet 34:11
39 David Goodwin Endurance Academy Male Vet 34:23
40 Charlie Thew Racing Metro 15 Male Junior 34:24
41 Angela McGurk Blaydon CC Female Vet 34:30
42 Mark Duffy VO2MAX Race Team Male Senior 34:37
43 Ray Bell Derwentside CC Male Vet 34:38
44 Vanessa Armstrong Blaydon CC Female Vet 34:42
45 Eric Hurrell Gosforth RC Male Vet 35:42
46 Heather Witham Blaydon CC Female Vet 36:01
47 Rob Aspden Blaydon CC Male Vet 36:28
48 Anna Halstead Blaydon CC Female Vet 36:44
49 Daniel Dryden Blaydon CC Male Senior 36:47
50 Michael Trow Blaydon CC Male Vet 37:13
51 Dean McLauchlan North Tyneside Riders CC Male Senior 37:15
52 Steven Burns Houghton CC Male Vet 37:24
52 Joanna Mitchell Blaydon CC Female Vet 37:24
54 John Picken North Tyneside Riders CC Male Vet 38:25
55 Numan Asad Team Newcastle Triathlon Male Espoir 39:41
56 Anita Dabbs VO2MAX Race Team Female Senior 39:55
57 Anthony Prince VO2MAX Race Team Male Vet 41:14
58 Jay Sully Blaydon CC Male Vet 42:42
59 Gareth Davies Barnesbury CC Male Vet 48:51