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I don't know how often a forum user wins an open time trial, but since Jeff has posted here as 'Old Git' in the past, I though I would post my local paper report here.
**Redmon Grand Prix des Gentlemen. **(17th October 2010)
Grand Prix des Gentlemen.
Jeff had carefully selected a super fast pacer in Wouter Sybrandy, but he still had to hang onto his team mate’s back wheel. He did this with only very occasional requests to ease off, and the result was a time of 37minutes 40 seconds for the 15.4 miles giving a ‘veterans plus’ of 10 minutes 39 seconds.
The formula for this type of time trial is that each team of two consists of a veteran (or ‘gentleman’), and a pacer who provides a slipstream to shelter his ‘gent’. The winning team is that which achieves the greatest veterans plus on age standard (see previous recent articles).
Marshall, at 69 years, is a distinctly senior veteran since the category starts at 40 years of age, and so one might have expected him to be much slower than the younger riders, but the Sybrandy/Marshall pairing was in fact the third fastest on actual time (45 teams finished). The fastest team outright were Brian Phillips, 50 (East Grinstead CC) who was paced by Conal Yates (In Gear-Quickvit), who did 34.40, and second fastest were Mick Deen, 55, paced by E. Clark (both Redmon) with 37.14.
However, the significant prizes were in the veterans classification where the second place went to that very frequent winner of veterans prizes, 73 year old John Woodburn (VC Meudon), paced by Stan Maciak (Didcot Phoenix). Their actual time was 40.34, representing a plus of 9.19 which gave the Hounslow man a winning margin of 1 minute 20 seconds. In third place were Terry Batsford, 64 and Henry Furniss (Wyndy Milla) actual time 38.50, plus 7.36.
Wouter Sybrandy competes as a professional for the Sigma Sport team and recently gained his sponsors useful TV coverage in the Tour of Britain. Professional riders normally have to concentrate their efforts on road racing (that is bunched, or mass start racing), but Wouter is also a natural time triallist and likes to compete in this discipline when his other commitments allow. He told me this ride went off in a straightforward manner: he just had to ease a little on some of the climbs, but most of the way, and particularly on the head wind sections, he was going as hard as he could.
Wouter Sybrandy is a second claim Hounslow member.
The race took place on a circuit based on North Holmwood (Surrey). It included a section on the A24 main road and some lanes through Rusper and Newdigate
Result:
J. Marshall/W.Sybrandy Hounslow/Sigma vet.69 plus 10min. 39 secs.
J.Woodburn/S.Maciak VC Meudon/ Didcot v.73 + 09.19
T. Batsford/Henry Furniss Wyndy Milla v. 64 + 07.36
B.Phillips/C.Yates E.Grinstead/ In gear Quickvit v.50 + 06.48
A. Rowe/J. Archdeacon De Laune CC. v.72 + 06.41.