Thetford Winter series Rd 3 -2010

WHYTE Winter Series Round 3 RESULTS HERE

2hr Female
3rd Hollie Bettles - 4 laps in 2:20:13 - fastest lap 31:49

2hr Male
52nd Tom Wright - 4 laps in 2:18:28 - fastest lap 33:40

2hr Vets Male
2nd John Smith - 5 laps in 2:28:01 - fastest lap 27:09

19th Paul Brown - 4 laps in 2:09:47 - fastest lap 31:49

71st Bob Mitchell - 3 laps in 1:53:04 - fastest lap in 32:35

4hr Male
7th Lloyd Bettles - 8 laps in 4:11:46 - fastest lap in 27:31

11th Richard Jones - 8 laps in 4:24:05 - fastest lap in 30:48

4Hr Vet male
14th Mick Pilcher - 7 laps in 4:04:49 - fastest lap in 31:44

18th Dave Loveday - 7 laps in 4:19:32 - fastest lap in 33:23

34th Dave Gardner - 5 laps in 2:25 - fastest lap in 33:34

Jack DNS

Wadenhoe run-bike-run Round 2

By Glynn:
It was great to see so many make the effort to come over & watch today, so the least I can do is a quick report of what turned out to be a race just as expected!

Arriving this morn we were told that the Kyack was off so there would be a bigger run/bike field and they would not let us run the first 100yds by the river as it was too dangerous! This turned out to be not a bad course as u still got some deep water sections to run through.

Checking the rusults from the laps I did on the first race I figured I was about 6th on the first run, so with a quiet confidence for a good start I lined up on the front row and on the gun I went...backwards. I dont know wether it was just that there were more people but I had about 15-20 in front of me by the style & this meant a massive hold up to start things off,as I watched Patric creep off in to the distance.

I persisted to go as fast as I could for a bit, then remind myself to slow down or I would not make the distance, on the second run lap this was not an issue as my back was not allowing me to push hard on the run anymore! I did however finish the run jus

t to see Patrick going down the first slope on the bike.

So a good changeover & on the bike ...settle into a rythem I thought and soak everyone up! Hah, this has to be the toughest bike we have had there, the bottom of the valeys were so water logged u could not carry any speed to assist getting up the other side, which of course we were now going through more times with the new extended course.

I dug in as hard as I could and every rider in front became my new target,I could see

Patrick in his non descreet top from the off and was determined to at least close the gap over the course of the race. I caught Steve on lap 4 without even realising it was him and continued my chase, eventually jostling with patrick for most of lap 5. Patrick spent most of this lap "annoyingly" talking to me, telling me how he would take it easy on the bike to save something for the run, mmm if he, in that case had pushed hard on the bike he would of won by a mile!

Lap 6 I managed to pull a slight gap & was the first bike back in the changeover (wahoo in the lead for at least 5 secs), but had 3 guys out of the changeover before me due to a shoelace incident! Still in front of Steve though I leapt to my feet and got as far as the road before realising that my legs were refusing to perform the motion of running, I had exploded my legs big time and by half way round the first lap was wondering if I could finish, but persist I did as people crawled past me leaving me a reasonable finish, but not as good as it could of been.

With aprox one run a month for the last 6months this was enevitable though so I cant say I am suprised,and everything hurts like hell now unsuprisingly too.....so how long to the next one...9 weeks isnt it? RESULTS HERE , Glynn seems to be down As Glyn Proctor!