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St Edmundsbury Club of the Year 2010Mallorca 70.3 Ironman 2016
Mallorca 70.3 Ironman. Saturday May 7th 2016
Laura Brown flew out to Mallorca to take part in the Mallorca 70.3 ironman event. This is only Laura’s 2nd year in Triathlon and has given herself the challenge if competing in three half ironman events, this being the first of the three.
In poor weather conditions Laura finished the 1.9k swim, 56 mile bike & 13 mile run in a very respectable time of 6hrs 7 mins, with splits of 39:17 swim, 3:14:28 bike & 2:03:48 run. Overall position 1566, 151st lady and 36th in age group, not bad going considering Laura was stung by jelly fish in the swim and it was raining...
Horringer 10m TT 12/5/16
Reminders to all riders that front and rear working lights are compulsory, also sign on closes 10 minutes before first man is off. http://www.westsuffolkwheelers.co.uk/racing/time-trials/evening-time-trial-series-general-info
| Position | Name | Club | Time |
| 1 | Matt Shingleton | WSW | 24.01 |
| 2 | Richard Farrow | WSW | 24.24 |
| 3 | Fabian Horrocks | RP Vision Racing Team | 25.53 |
| 4 | Boyd Nicholas | WSW | 26.08 |
| 5 | Matt Denny | WSW | 26.58 |
| 6 | Pip Moore | WSW | 27.06 |
| 7 | Viv Smith | WSW | 27.27 |
| 8 | Clement Wallace (U18) | WSW | 27.55 |
| 9 | P Lewis | VeloVelocity | 28.22 |
| 10 | Zoila Gilham-Fernandez | WSW | 28.57 |
| 11 | Henry Wood | WSW | 28.59 |
| 12 | Steve Newman | WSW | 29.23 |
| 13 | Jim Greenwood | WSW | 29.29 |
| 14 | Martin Gale | WSW | 29.46 |
| 15 | Steve Rue | WSW | 29.57 |
| 16 | Lewis Elson | WSW | 30.05 |
| 17 | Paul Sawyer | WSW | 30.31 |
| 18 | Mark Elson | WSW | 31.53 |
| 19 | Neil Grimmer | WSW | 31.56 |
| 20 | Robin Lines (U18) | WSW | 33.53 |
| 21 | Simon Kitching | WSW | 34.57 |
| 22 | Charlie Knowler (U18) | WSW | 35.13 |
Grass Track Meeting 2016
West Suffolk Wheelers and Triathlon Club Grass Track Meeting
Sunday 5th June 2016
Fornham All Saints Community Centre IP28 6JZ
First Race @ 13:00
Incorporating:
* National Endurance League
* National Men's 800m Grass Championship
* Youth Omnium
* Freewheel Event
Entry and more info - click here
Contact:
David Young davidk.young@sky.com
Tel. 07765 394 409
Sponsors:
Revel Outdoors - Performance Cycle Shop
Maglia Rosso - Cycle Centre and Destination Cafe
All you need to know about Grass Track Racing...
For those unfamiliar with Grass Track a brief summary ~ It is very similar to velodrome track racing, fixed wheel bikes, no brakes, oval circuit, in our case about 220 metres, set out on a flat grass field. Bikes are fitted with treaded tyres and low gears to cope with the terrain and the racing is fast and furious, generally over short distances. It is a branch of the sport that goes back generations and has a big history particularly ‘oop north’ and in Scotland where it still features in Highland Games events. It still has a hard core following nationally and is favoured by many clubs for the development of youth riders.
Typically meetings feature a mixture of sprint events over 400 and 800 metres, as well as ‘Devils’ (elimination races), points races and handicaps as well as a distance race, normally 8k. The youngsters compete in age groups and often there are ‘freewheel’ races for those young riders new to the sport. Our meeting this year will comprise a round of the National Distance League and will be the National 800 metre Championship event, thus ensuring entries from the best grass track riders in the country, as well as regional riders. In past years our entries have included Victoria Pendleton, Laura and Emma Trott, Russell and Dean Downing and many other well-known names, not to mention a handful of our own club riders.
It is a great spectator sport, easy to follow and with many races following each other through the afternoon. It’s also great fun to compete in, although I wouldn’t recommend our event to anyone wanting to make their debut, other than youngsters in the freewheel section which is suitable for competitive youngsters from 8-16 years on suitable bikes. Please ask at Go Ride for advice on this if interested.
SO, COME AND SEE WHAT GRASS TRACK IS ALL ABOUT and bring the family for a great afternoon of sporting action.
 Entry Form 2016 (docx) | [ ] | 22 Kb |
 Grass Track 2016 Poster | [ ] | 259 Kb |
Risby 8.5m TT 5/5/16
| Position | Name | Club | Time |
| 1 | Lee Woodcock | HCR XC Team | 20.13 |
| 2 | Matt Shingleton | WSW | 20.28 |
| 3 | Paul Rooke | WSW | 20.36 |
| 4 | Richard Farrow | WSW | 20.48 |
| 5 | Darren Sharman | WSW | 21.14 |
| 6 | Fabian Horrocks | RP Vision Racing |
22.00 |
| 7 | Julian Long | WSW | 22.03 |
| 8 | Pip Moore | WSW | 22.05 |
| 9 | Peter Nichols | WSW | 22.36 |
| 10 | Craig Stewart | WSW | 22.49 |
| 11 | Robin White (U18) | Velo Schills | 23.02 |
| 12 | Viv Smith | WSW | 23.15 |
| 13 | P Lewis | VeloVelocity | 23.16 |
| 14 | Gareth Doman | WSW | 23.23 |
| 15 | David Young | WSW | 23.32 |
| 16 | Lewis Elson | WSW | 23.48 |
| 17 | Anita Buxton | WSW | 24.20 |
| 18 | Jim Greenwood | WSW | 24.20 |
| 19 | Steve Newman | WSW | 24.39 |
| 20 | Steve Rue | WSW | 24.51 |
| 21 | Zoila Gilham-Fernandez | WSW | 25.23 |
| 22 | Martin Gale | WSW | 25.26 |
| 23 | Harry Shingleton (U18) | WSW | 26.22 |
| 24 | Neil Grimmer | WSW | 26.40 |
| 25 | Robin Lines (U18) | WSW | 26.53 |
| 26 | Paul Sawyer | WSW | 27.26 |
| 27 | Rhys Holland-Jones (U18) | WSW | 27.40 |
| 28 | Charlie Knowler (U18) | WSW | 28.25 |
| 29 | Simon Kitching | WSW | 28.36 |
| 30 | Jackie Smith | WSW | 30.25 |
Walden Tri 2016
Walden Triathlon Sunday 1st May 2016
Ray delivered and age group win, with an overall position of 28th.
Ixworth Cycle Races 2016 - Results
Ixworth Cycle Races 2016 Results
Since commencing the organisation of the Ixworth Cycle Races the West Suffolk Wheelers have tried hard to publish accurate results, but with a multi-race, multi-lap format on a short circuit, this has always been very difficult, particularly coping with wide ranges of abilities in some races leading to some riders being lapped several times, and mixed genders and age groups in the case of some of the kids races and an ever increasing demand for instant and complete results.
This year, at significant expense, we decided to try transponder timing, but backed this up with video and manual lap scoring. However, we have experienced various technical and logistical problems with this and have ended up with three sets of results that do not correspond ~ not to mention a great many complaints from riders and parents, some of which have been unacceptably vitriolic, bearing in mind that the whole team are VOLUNTEERS, organising this meeting for the good of the sport!
We have now arrived at the following results, which are not complete, but the best we feel we can be confident of. Polite comments are welcomed to: admin@westsuffolkwheelers.co.uk.
Video highlights of the day are available here: https://youtu.be/pfBSXaPUrCs