Lakes & Lancs SpoCo - Border City Wheelers 22 (L221) results
Col McKenna boosted his SpoCo points with an excellent 3rd place (4th
overall) in the latest event held on Wednesday 15th May on the 22 mile
rolling Circuit of Cumdivock course with a time of 55:27.
The overall winner was Ian Stott of Blackburn & District CTC in 53:19.
Unfortunately I can't report what the SpoCo points position is yet as they haven't put the results up on the Lakes & Lancs SpoCo site.
Sportive Success
Several club riders were in action on Sunday 12th May at two of the countries major sportive events.
Etape Caledonia
The Etape Caledonia is one of the few sportives held on closed roads, in this case in Perthshire.
Glenn Rhodes, Steve Wilson, Gary Todd and Paul Lang headed up there to
ride the 81 mile event, and finished with an excellent time of 3hrs 46 minutes, only 18 mins down on 1st place.
Luckily the rain held off for the event.
The Fred Whitton Challenge
Unlike the above, the rain most certainly did not hold off for the 112
mile Fred Whitton Challenge (nor did the wind), making a very tough event even tougher.
Scott Smith, Chris Burrow, Andy Stubbs and Paul McKenny all completed the course (a feat in itself given the weather conditions).
Congratulations to all riders.
Lakes & Lancs SpoCo - Kent Valley HC (Shap) resultsAnother great set of rides from club members to round off the Bank Holiday weekend. This time it was the 9.1 mile Shap Hill Climb The weekends racing has seen Colin McKenna shoot to 2nd place in the individual SpoCo tables (with a counting ride to spare over the rider in first place). Congratulations again to all who rode. Overall placings for local riders (SpoCo placing in brackets) were...
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Lakes & Lancs SpoCo - Rossendale RC 25 resultsFantastic rides by Oliver McKenna (4th overall), closely followed by
Colin McKenna (5th overall) and backed up by Graham Pitcher saw BCW take
the team prize at the Bank Holiday weekend Rossendale RC 25 event held
on the Cockermouth L2511 course. Overall winner on the day was Alan Thomson (Sandy Wallace Cycles) in 0:53:25 Congratulations to all who rode. Overall placings for local riders (SpoCo placing in brackets) were...
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Lakes & Lancs SpoCo - Torver 20 resultsOn a glorious spring day, 32 riders tackled the tough Torver SpoCo course on Saturday 20th April. Ian Stott (Blackburn CTC) was the overall winner in a time of 51:40 but there were some great performances from local riders. Congratulations to Scott Smith taking 3rd in 52:31 and Col McKenna 4th in 54:08. Fastest up the timed climb of Grizebeck was Craig Battersby (Team Leapfrog) in 7:37, closely followed by our own Scott Smith in 7:51. Peter Greenwood (V60 - Clayton Velo) was third fastest with 8:14. The good showing of club riders has hauled us back up to 5th in the SpoCo Club table, with Col McKenna best placed in the individual at 11th overall. Overall placing's for local riders (SpoCo placing in brackets) were...
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Lakes & Lancs SpoCo - Kent Valley RC 30 resultsThe Lakes & Lancs SpoCo series continued on Sunday 14th April with the
Kent Valley RC 30 mile event at Sedbergh. After this event, Barrow Central Wheelers are in 8th place in the SpoCo club table, with Col McKenna 14th in the individual rider table off only 3 counting events. |
Coast Road Club record broken!
On a near perfect night, Oliver McKenna broke the club Coast Road record by 13 seconds, finishing in a time of 23:07.
Previous record holder and clubmate Scott Smith was second with 23:33 and Chris Anderson (Biketreks Racing Academy) took third with 24:14.
Howard Lindow (Lakes Road Club) broke the course 'fixed' record with a fine time of 25:08
Congratulations to all riders on some seriously good times for this early in the season.
Evening Mail - Cycling articles
If you missed the Evening Mail article on Wednesday 3rd April's time-trial on the Coast Road, plus the Border City Wheelers 25 SpoCo event, you can read it on-line here...
Coast Road 10 - 3rd April 2012 / Border City 25 SpoCo
Previous articles available on-line...
Circuit of Ingleborough / Caton SpoCo article
The Evening Mail are keen to have regular articles from us so if you do an event of any kind (tt, sportive, charity ride, anything!) it'd be great if you could drop me a line with
a few words about it and I'll collate them and pass them on, with a picture or two if we have any suitable.
It's a great way for us to promote the club and the local events and hopefully encourage some new members.
Marshals neededThe 2013 events list is now up and marshal info included where known. As you'll see there are a lot of gaps, so if you can help marshal one or more events,
please let us know so that we can include you on the list. |
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Lakes & Lancs SpoCo - Lancaster CC Caton 21 resultsThe Lakes & Lancs SpoCo series continued on Sunday 17th March with the
Lancaster CC 21 mile event at Caton. Once again, the weather
played it's part with overnight snow making it touch and go whether the
event would go ahead. After this weekends events, Barrow Central Wheelers are holding a very creditable 7th place out of the 28 clubs affiliated to the series. Overall placings for local riders (SpoCo placing in brackets) were...
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Lakes & Lancs SpoCo - Rossendale resultsGreat results for club riders Scott Smith, Colin McKenna and Oliver McKenna
in the Rossendale SPOCO event on Saturday 2nd March. Out of the field of
81 riders, the club had 2 riders finishing in the top 10. Scott Smith took the
honours pipping Colin McKenna by just 2 seconds. Overall placings for local riders (SpoCo placing in brackets) were...
So, with 1 event down, Barrow Central Wheelers are leading the Lakes and Lancs SPOCO Club standings by 3 points. Full results are available here Lakes & Lancs SPOCO website |
Results Finder
I've created a page which allows you to search/filter/sort club results.
Currently I've got all results from 2009 onwards in the system and will add as many
of the others as I can as time permits.
I'd be grateful for any feedback on how you find it, any changes you might like to suggest etc etc (just so I feel like I've not been flogging a dead horse ;-)
At the very least it'll be useful for collating who's won what at the end of the season.
You can access it from the Events/Results menu above - just click on Results Finder.
Club Kit ordersImpsport, the club clothing suppliers, have now completed the Club Shop and you can now place orders on-line. |
Trophy InformationWe've just started trying to pull all the trophy information together. I've put up a trophies page which you can get to here or via the Events/Results option on the menu bar above. Bear with us as it's a pretty time consuming task! Over the years trophies have been 're-allocated' as courses changed or were scrapped altogether (Barrow-Newby Bridge-Barrow anyone?). We'll try and reflect this in the lists where possible if we can find date/course information. If you spot any errors or can fill in any gaps then don't hesitate to let me know. |
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So how much faster are we going now?Looking at an old diary from 1991, I thought it'd be interesting to see how times 21 years ago compared to those of today. I must admit I got a bit of a surprise. The link below shows a couple of events (Circuit of Coniston and Haverthwaite) to compare. |
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Paul McKenny's Epic Lakeland TriathlonAs some of you will be aware, club member Paul McKenny recently completed a gruelling long weekend (11-13th May) in which he...
Why? I hear you ask. Is it some sort of mid-life crisis? Not a bit of it. In doing this he raised well in excess of £2,000 for Ulverston Sandside Lodge School, Macmillan Nurses and Furness General Hospital Oncology Department. A magnificent effort. He's very kindly written a brief roundup of the events (and if this doesn't put you off swimming Coniston, nothing will!) |
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Something to read while the rain lashes the windows...
Rules is rules...
A bit of light relief after all those heroics. The UCI might have their rules, but really these are the ones that matter.
I particularly like Rule 5 and its accompanying video.
The Rules
Writing the Book...
You've probably read "In Search Of Robert Millar", "Flying
Scotsman" and loads of other cycling books. Well,
there's a new one due out next year, and reading this chaps blog on
its progress, it should be a cracker.
This stuff is funny, yet embarrassingly accurate and I can guarantee
you will recognise yourself in there somewhere.
Everything from 'Mechanical Ineptitude' to 'A sink full of cycling
crap'.
It's long so something you can dip into over the winter to follow
his progress in...
Writing the Book
Bad Weather Riding...
So, with the snow, rain and wind we've had lately you think you've been a bit of a hero venturing out on the bike do you?
Or perhaps you think that Andy Hampsten's ride over the Gavia in the 1988 Giro was the pinnacle of suffering?
Naaah -
This is heroic - Milan - San Remo 1910 edition
Getting the miles in...
A few people have heard of Tommy Godwin the track cyclist, and very good he was too. Unfortunately, not many seem to have heard of another Tommy Godwin.
If you think you're going to get some serious miles in over the winter, then read this and weep.
As if breaking the year record with a phenomenal 75,065 miles wasn't
enough, he carried oon to break the 100,000 mile record in
exactly 500 days - at least it makes it easy to work out!
I can't help feeling you'd have to be a bit bonkers to do this, but as the write up says, this record will never be beaten,
and you can't say that about many cycling records. The 1939
Stats link is interesting - you can compare your days mileage with
what Tommy did on that day ;-)
Dave Barter who's "Writing the Book" (see above) is also writing a book on Tommy 'Mile-Eater' Godwin
and the distance record in general, using Tommy's original diaries etc to chart the mileage.
Tommy 'mile-eater' Godwin
About the Club
The Barrow Central Wheelers was formed in 1933 when two of the clubs of that era combined. The club gets its name from the Barrow Central railway station where the first club runs started from.
Over the years, the club has taken part in all forms of cycling and cycle
racing with some of it's members representing Great Britain at the highest level.
At the present time the club is predominantly a time trialling club promoting 3 open
events and 21 club events each year with an annual prize giving held at the end of October.
The club still has a small active road racing section and a touring group that have very close ties to the Cumbria Cycling Club which is active most weekends and organises weekend runs and at least one major continental tour each year.
Please send any ideas / news / feedback to the