Published July 24, 2012 | Race Results
Iron Acton 10 Mile TT 24th July 2012
- 1st Sam Larkham – 22.20Bristol South
- 2nd Ed Pitt – 22.33Bristol South
- 3rd Lee Francis – 22.48Kingswood Tri
- 4th Simon Hoyle – 23.03Paramount
- 5th Ed Trotman – 23.18Bristol South
- 6th Jim Peters – 23.18 Sodbury Cycle Sport
- 7th Daniel Kenpe – 23.50Bristol South
- 8th Oliver Iles – 23.51
- 9th Kieran Blair – 24.46 Velo ClubBristol
- 10th Kieran Murphy – 25.07 Velo ClubBristol
- 11th Lee Aston – 25.10 Sodbury Cycle Sport
- 12th Greg Lancaster – 25.12 Velo ClubBristol
- 13th Lee Rogers – 25.32Kingswood Tri
- 14th Dan Carr – 25.33Kingswood Tri
- 15th Ben Scott – 25.36
- 16th Jamie Evens – 25.40Kingswood Tri
- 17th Rich Franklin – 25.55Kingswood Tri
- 18th Sam (Number 30) -26.00 Can’t read name
- 19thS Broole – 26.02
- 20th Liam Odey – 26.55
- 21st Jon Wright – 27.14 Velo ClubBristol
- 22nd Craig English – 27.17 Velo ClubBristol
- 23rd Nick Coppens – 27.35 Velo ClubBristol
- 24th Kevin Wright – 27.52 SRC
- 25th James Hughesdon – 28.07
- 26th Richard Chirrock – 29.52
- 27th Patrick Britton – 30.32Kingswood tri
- 27th Ian Hamblin – 30.32
- 29th Rachel Johnson – 30.50Kingswood Tri
- 30th Derek Johnson – 31.29Kingswood Tri
Great turnout tonight fantastic weather quite a few PB’s I think.
Big thank you to all the people that helped out Lee Rogers, Matt Iles, Ed Stevens, Donna and Andy Thatcher, Mariano Sanchez-Luppi, Matt Langdon, Paul Sheppard and Ash Blackmore, with out you guys the event couldn’t of happened! Thanks again.
Published May 21, 2012 | Evening Time Trial Series
The Lamb Pub, Iron Acton
First event Tuesday 5th June
After a great 2011 culminating in the Kingswood Tri Vs VCB showdown… Won by VCB!! – only just now is the time for a rematch!!
We have a bolstered evening time trial series for 2012 season.
We’ll be sharing the series with VCB, alternating the weeks. So one week we’ll organise the ’10′ then VCB organise the following week. Maximum number of riders per week will be 40 and we now have to increase the evening fee to £3.00. This is largely down to having to register the series and levies to CTT. Preference will be with the organising club for riders on the night and as always we’ll required some marshals and pushers off etc.
The series starts on Tuesday 5th June, then through to 7th August, with the re-match on the 14th August! Signing-on is from 7pm with first rider off at 7.30pm. Parking will now be in The Lamb Pub, Iron Acton, the owner is happy for us to do this but please park with consideration
5th June – Joint (VCB to train KIT)
12th June – KIT
19th June – VCB
26th June – KIT
3rd July – VCB
10th July – KIT
17th July – VCB
24th July – KIT
31st July – VCB
7th August – VCB vs KIT comp
See
you soon
Published November 27, 2011 | Bath Hilly Half Marathon Results
27th November 2011
This was very tough half marathon and 0.7 of mile long due to a marshal mistake!
Well organised, apart from the detour! You get a nice finishers medal and running t-shirt with your name on afterwards.
My legs did not hurt this much after a marathon! But I very much enjoyed it and would recommend this race for next year.
At the end it was strange being offered beer or water, jaffa cakes, flapjack or a carrot????? I couldn’t manage the beer, watching Andy I was unsure if he was enjoying it or not so thought it was best to stick to the water!
- 1st Alec Woods = 01:36:10
- 7th Dan Carr = 01:45:34 41
- 13th Lee Francis = 01:49:13
- 25th Andy Thatcher = 01:53:01
- 30th Ross Hale running as Rich Franklin = 01:55:54
- 68th Paul Sheppard = 02:06:09
Published November 20, 2011 | Castle Combe Chilly Duathlon 20th November 2011
Results
1st Lee Piercy = 43:26.454 (Not Kit)
R1 = 10:04.261 T2 = 00:45.079 B = 21:28.035 T2 = 00:33.145 R2 = 10:35.934
35th Steven Castle = 52:33.226
R1 = 11:51.466 T1 = 00:37.907 B = 26:11.818 T2 = 00:33.004 R2 = 13:19.031
88th Tom Weaver = 57:06.947
R1 = 13:45.343 T1 = 00:56.998 B = 27:25.029 T2 = 01:05.889 R2 = 13:53.688
Full Results = http://www.dbmax.co.uk/assets/results/676/original/chiily_web.html?1321999948
Published November 20, 2011 | Luton Marathon Results
Published November 7, 2011 | 
Thanks to Allison Lucas for sorting this out with a sprinkling of ‘the Coxes’
Venue: Hot Water Lane, Kingswood off of Station Road near SJ Cooks Garage
Time: 9.45am to start at 10:00
Tinsel/dressing up in Christmas outfit a must – if you can’t run for any reason some help marshalling and/or time keeping would be appreciated. -
Don’t forget to bring the kids as all ages catered for – prizes for all children!
Cooked Breakfast after (you pay for what you want)
Slight change this year where prizes will only be for 1st Lady and Gent.
The run is along the same loop used for the 3 day Tri back in August (wood post and back along Ring Road Cycle path).
This isn’t a serious race, just the chance for some friendly competition between club members/Bitton RR. We hope we can hold this race regularly throughout 2012, to serve as a benchmark for people and a way to judge fitness levels throughout the season around the same course. It will take place on a week night during the summer.
Published November 7, 2011 | Quite a few members have entered the club races: Bath Half Marathon and the Cotswold 113 Middle Distance Tri, which is fantastic! If you could let me know if you are entered in the races and I will publish the list.
email me at lee.t.francis@gmail.com
I’m in the process of sorting out the survey for the club sprint and olympic distance races and hope to get them sent out to very soon, been a little busy sorry!
Published October 30, 2011 | Club Races 2012
At the meeting with the Nutritionist on Friday 21st October, quite a few people were interested in racing the Cotswold 113 Middle distance triathlon, due to its reasonable cost, accessible location and knowledge of how good the race was this year. As a result of this interest, I propose that this is one of the races that we enter as a club next year.
Entries for the race open online Tuesday 1st November 2011 (that is this Tuesday!) and the date for the race is June 24th 2012
Link below:
I will sort out a vote for Sprint and Olympic distance club races later on, but I’m sending this out now due to the likely popularity of the event. I imagine it will probably fill up quickly so don’t want anyone to miss out. It would be good to get as many people from the club to race this as possible so we can encourage and support each other and give ourselves more training options.
Thanks Lee
Published October 9, 2011 | CHIPPENHAM & DISTRICT WHEELERS
RESULT OF OPEN 3-UP TEAM TIME TRIAL
Promoted for and on behalf of Cycling Time Trials under their rules and regulations.
Course U59
Sunday 9th October, 2011
1st J Ponting VC St Raphael
C Parry 53:17
P Sykes
7th L Francis Kingswood Tri
P Sheppard 1:03:02
M Langdon
15th J Dale Kingswood Tri
R James 1:06:36
W Osmand
18th E Downey Kingswood Tri
L Rogers 1:09:25
J McGalpin
23rd M Hallgarth Composite
P Crocker L 1:42:38
J McNally L
I would like to thank Philippa for sending me the details of this race; I really enjoyed it and thought it was bargain at £7 each with a free cup of tea and only £1.50 for a roll and chocolate cake afterwards.
It was a good end of season race, well organised by Chippenham Wheelers and great to see 12 people from the club racing and enjoying it. This is definitely in the calendar for next year and lets hope we can get a few teams from the club racing.
Lee
Published September 18, 2011 | Langport Tri – Sunday 18th September
This did not start too well, I’ve been working in the Isle of Man and the flight back to Gloucester was a little rough to say the least, still it’s been worse.
I had a free entry for this event as I was Refereeing with Paul Lester who organises the Taunton Tri, we were sharing the duties with me off first at 8:45 so I could get back for Paul to go out.
It started as a disaster right from the beginning, first tri for two years and putting on my goggles the elastic snapped, lesson learnt there then. I had only swum once this year, the week before the tri !!!
Apart from no goggles the swim was my usual poor effort made even worse with no practice but the pool although open air was nice and warm, this was a blessing in disguise as it was pouring with rain and I was getting cold waiting for the start, so swim over off I plod to T1, not too bad, luckily I’ve a rear light set up on the bike so after a reasonable transition off I went, the first left turn at Langport comes up quite quickly and I remembered going into a slide at this bend the last time I did it in 1999 (I do like to keep all my records). After the turn the rain got harder and it was getting very difficult to see, there was loads of standing water and half way out on the bike there is a long hill, not particularly steep but it goes on, on turning left to start the hill the road surface felt strange, I looked down and the rear wheel seemed ok and I had new tyres and tubes so didn’t think it was a puncture, I continued until about half way up the hill when I had a strange vibration and knew it was a flat, now if you’ve ever tried to change a tube in the pouring rain, no glasses ( I put my contacts in for the race ), new Continental evo paves which they use on Paris Rubeaux fitted to Zipps you will know what a job it is, this took me 32 mins ( on Garmin ) and two very sore thumbs. I started to panic now realising I had to get back so pushed hard, making the power meter alarm have a head fit but luckily the rain had stopped and I eventually arrived at T2, I was going to stop there and retire but Paul said I had loads of time ( hasn’t seen me run before) so off I trotted, through the field of rather cross Geese up and down the lane and back to the finish. Although it was a disaster I did enjoy it as I do like Langport and making allowances for the puncture I was 12 minutes slower than in 1999 so that’s not too bad, I would of finished third in class, perhaps 2nd had I tried a bit more on the run !!!
Swim 11.00
Bike 1:24:01
Run 39:53
Total time 2:04:12 A worst ever PB
Winner Lee Pester 1:04:09
John Milkins
Published September 17, 2011 | IM Wales Results ……. Well done to all competitors for finishing in extremely tough conditions – There was a big swell in the swim/ hilly and windy bike and a hilly run!!! I have not put the transition times in as they were not too quick on the count of a 1,000m run from the swim and T1!!!!
| ATHLETE |
RANK |
AGE/DIV |
SWIM |
BIKE |
RUN |
TOTAL |
| Francis, Lee |
16/34/26 |
29/M25-29 |
00:55:57 |
06:48:47 |
03:58:29 |
12:02:29 |
| Aleknavicius, Kes |
01/03/2 |
56/M55-59 |
00:55:57 |
06:50:58 |
04:18:55 |
12:22:55 |
| Downey, Eric ‘the eel’ |
65/99/95 |
43/M40-44 |
01:00:50 |
07:00:06 |
04:18:21 |
12:41:54 |
| Rogers, Lee |
142/135/130 |
35/M35-39 |
01:09:14 |
07:10:28 |
04:30:49 |
13:13:36 |
| Chalker, Rob |
74/39/48 |
28/M25-29 |
01:16:46 |
06:35:02 |
05:05:06 |
13:19:57 |
| Roethenbaugh, Gary |
167/179/140 |
41/M40-44 |
01:10:52 |
07:40:18 |
04:15:04 |
13:32:41 |
| Weaver, Tom |
53/70/66 |
25/M25-29 |
01:08:27 |
07:55:55 |
05:36:36 |
14:59:48 |
| Weaver, Ken |
102/109/116 |
49/M45-49 |
01:10:38 |
07:52:02 |
05:48:31 |
15:13:55 |
Thanks to all the support crew who came down and all the new friends we made around Tenby. A special mention must go to Kes for getting his ticket to Kona 2012! Well done you deserved it!
Ironman Swim Clip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PgLV_IEazU
Thanks to Carol A for this montage…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0FX3hPWZlU&feature=autoshare
Thanks to Tri 247 TV for this one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FklwNZNHo0&feature=autoshare
No I will not be doing this one again!
Ironman Wales Results Analysis: Compared to Ironman UK
With two races in the United Kingdom, each known for difficulty (UK average finish time in 2010 was 13:01, nearly identical to 2011 Wales, though in 2011 UK was much faster at 12:35), we compared the two by age group to see how comparable the courses may be.
Published August 29, 2011 | A great event well supported – there were 6 food stations including a full lunch at Theal – Just for info we got a bus home! our bikes were returned to bristol on trucks.
|
Total |
Men |
Women |
Avg Time |
Fastest Time |
Slowest Time |
|
426 |
374 |
52 |
08:22:22 |
05:28:11 |
11:29:28 |
|
38 |
36 |
Lee Francis |
06:25:15 |
||
|
39 |
37 |
Lee Rogers |
06:25:26 |
||
|
40 |
38 |
Eric Downey |
06:26:06 |
||
|
345 |
311 |
Michael Kirley |
09:29:56 |