Archive for April 2009
GHS 100 in 8
19/04/2009 by Martyn.
harry did a sterling job handling the entries for the GHS reliability ride and about 15 riders were at dewsbury for the start. Brad rolled in on the 5th chime of nine o’clock!
Riders from bradford and batley also were there and we may attract some to Thorpers web site in the future.
Thorpers were Suggy, Neil Bates, Rob Krawczuk (?) Phil’s brother in law from Thirsk, Phil J, Craig J, Jim Kirrane ( making a rare excursion into group riding!!) Mick the ref, Mike the teach, Brad ,Martin and Martyn
Phil R and Karen appeared at the cafe on the tandem so points there Al!
The good weather saw a return to larger crowds at Pcoklington gardens, although the fish lake was very murky but looked well stocked
As riders settled into their comfotr zones, Brad, Teach and martyn went with 4 riders from est Bradford, one of whom Eddie was a very strong rider and large enough to shelter behind
At Cawood the wakefield club with about 16 riders cruised past on their Sunday run to Boothferry, so we chased them and sat at the back until Sutton on Derwent
We saw the Thorpers groups at Pock arriving in various groups
EBCC set off from Pock at a brisk pace, and after our legs had warmed up we chased them down catching them at Cawood, where a stray rider wiith a broken chain was helped , some riders set off and again ew chased, and chased catching them near Sherburn
The ride was, as the name implies a test of reliability for things to come ,and our group landed back with harry at 3.20pm having lost 15 mins at Cawood, and had 45 mins in the gardens at Pock.
161 kms at 30 kph avg
Thorpers evening testing trip to Pollington.
19/04/2009 by Steve McCall.
Al, Andy and me (Steve) are going over to Pollington (the other side of the A19 from the cafe at Womersly) for the Featherstone RC club “10″ (even though it is only 8.14 miles) on Monday evening for a 7PM start. All you do is turn up, pay £2 and go off in the order you sign on, very relaxed and informal. If anyone fancies it they are more than welcome for a ride on a very fast and technical course.
Ravensthorpe CC 10 Results.
18/04/2009 by Steve McCall.
Results sheet part 2 Results sheet Andy & Steve 2 up finish Andt & Steve 2 up Al finishing Steve finishing Hello fellow Thorpers, the results are in from the Club organised 10.
Andy 23.55
Al 24.27
Steve 24.30
John L 25.14
Les 26.35
Jack 26.40
Mick 30.10
Andy and Steve in the 2 up 23.56
Well done to all riders on a VERY hard course in quite blustery conditions. BUT the bigest well done goes to Suggy and he has asked me to pass on his sincere thanks for all his band of brilliant marshalls and refreshment technicians ;-)
It ran like clockwork and I’m sure everyone had a thoroughly enjoyable ride all down to the great organisation and support shown by the volunteers. It was great getting the cheers from the marshalls at every RB (all except gobby Jekyl stirring the brown stuff at the start 
A big thank you to Phil Hurt, from Dave and everyone at the club, who was also was a massive support by organising the start sheets etc, if it wasn’t for support like this it would make Dave’s job EVEN harder. Thanks everybody!
Photo
18/04/2009 by wurst.
Photo of the jersey in Munchen - the club has gone international!
a human delivery
18/04/2009 by Martyn.
got a text frm Alex , a bouncing boy at 4.44am, weighinng in at 8lbs and after sarah had about 50 hours in labour, all are doing very well sarah and Alex are tired!
Well one of them deserves it!
No news on names or wetting the baby’s head yet, c’mon Al what are you playing at!
A new delivery, but NOT a human :-)
17/04/2009 by Steve McCall.
Hope all is well Al and Sarah, heard you went into labour last night, hang in there and give Al hell girl!!!! It will be your turn to be on the receiving end of Diane’s hellfire next Rich
Any way this is my new delivery, dsc02105.JPG See you all tomorrow for what will be a great successful event.
hartshead circuit
17/04/2009 by Martyn.
circuit.doc
a single circuit map (for Alistair) and profile
profile for Tuesday / Thursday training
17/04/2009 by jack the flying dutchman.
According to my Garmin - the trainig run is 7.2 km long with just over 90 meters total ascend. The profile attached is the one from and to home and 4 rounds.
members Info
16/04/2009 by Martyn.
I am updating the details of members, email addresses etc.
it has been suggested that we circulate lists to subscribing members, if anyone DOESN’T want their details circulating please let me know
About half the club have email that i am aware of but it could be far more when details are checked
Thursday Circuit Training
16/04/2009 by Martyn.
phew, Martyn,Jack,Brad, Mike (the teacher) and Phil J were out on the circuit today. Including rolling out and back i averaged 29kph for 36 kms, I don’t don’t how many laps that was as I was chewing the stem most of the time
A good work out though
