Category: Events
VCC 10-mile TT on 19/05/2024
We look forward to welcoming 45 riders from 33 clubs to our upcoming TT event in Abergavenny:
Number |
Start |
Rider |
Machine |
Club |
Classification |
Category |
16 |
8:16 |
Christopher GIBBARD |
TT Bike |
FTP ( Fulfil The Potential ) Race Team |
Open |
Veteran |
17 |
8:17 |
Clare GREENWOOD |
Road Bike |
Bush Healthcare CRT |
Female |
Veteran |
18 |
8:18 |
Phil GUY |
Road Bike |
North Shropshire Wheelers |
Open |
Veteran |
19 |
8:19 |
Nathan MULLINS |
Road Bike |
Acme Whs (Rhondda) CC |
Open |
Senior |
20 |
8:20 |
Jeffrey REES |
Road Bike |
Virtual Cycling Club |
Open |
Veteran |
21 |
8:21 |
Charlotte MEAD |
TT Bike |
Monmouthshire Wheelers |
Female |
Veteran |
22 |
8:22 |
Harry COWLEY |
TT Bike |
Chester RC |
Open |
Veteran |
23 |
8:23 |
Karl NORRIS |
TT Bike |
360VRT |
Open |
Veteran |
24 |
8:24 |
Colin Richard WALLACE |
TT Bike |
Merthyr CC |
Open |
Veteran |
25 |
8:25 |
Tim FLETCHER |
Road Bike |
Clevedon & District Road Club |
Open |
Veteran |
26 |
8:26 |
Colin FULFORD |
TT Bike |
Stratford Cycling Club |
Open |
Veteran |
27 |
8:27 |
Peter OWEN |
TT Bike |
Norwood Paragon CC |
Open |
Veteran |
28 |
8:28 |
Chris GOULDEN |
TT Bike |
Veloflow CC |
Open |
Veteran |
29 |
8:29 |
Gareth SHANKLIN |
TT Bike |
Port Talbot Whs CC |
Open |
Veteran |
30 |
8:30 |
Bethan OUSELEY |
TT Bike |
Pembrokeshire Velo |
Female |
Veteran |
31 |
8:31 |
Chris SEDDON |
TT Bike |
UF Rowe & King |
Open |
Veteran |
32 |
8:32 |
Jon VICKERY |
TT Bike |
Cwmcarn Paragon Cycling Club |
Open |
Veteran |
33 |
8:33 |
Roger WHITTLE |
TT Bike |
Gloucester City Cycling Club |
Open |
Veteran |
34 |
8:34 |
Andrea PARISH |
TT Bike |
VeloSistas TT Team |
Female |
Veteran |
35 |
8:35 |
Paul ROGOLL |
TT Bike |
PDQ Cycle Coaching |
Open |
Veteran |
36 |
8:36 |
Andy KELLY |
TT Bike |
Bristol South Cycling Club |
Open |
Veteran |
37 |
8:37 |
Jon MANSELL |
TT Bike |
Royal Dean Forest Cycle Club |
Open |
Veteran |
38 |
8:38 |
Marco MARLETTA |
TT Bike |
VTTA (South Wales group) |
Open |
Veteran |
39 |
8:39 |
Hugh DAVIES |
TT Bike |
Port Talbot Whs CC |
Open |
Veteran |
40 |
8:40 |
Calum CHESHIRE |
TT Bike |
Mid Devon Cycling Club |
Open |
Veteran |
41 |
8:41 |
David ENGLISH |
TT Bike |
Chippenham & District Wheelers |
Open |
Veteran |
42 |
8:42 |
Haydn DAVIES |
TT Bike |
Giant CC Halo Films |
Open |
Veteran |
43 |
8:43 |
Tony LAKE |
TT Bike |
Gloucester City Cycling Club |
Open |
Veteran |
44 |
8:44 |
Dean PROSSER |
TT Bike |
Hereford & Dist Whs CC |
Open |
Veteran |
45 |
8:45 |
Peter BLACKWELL |
TT Bike |
Birmingham Running, Athletics and Triathlon Club |
Open |
Veteran |
46 |
8:46 |
Ben PHILLIPS |
Road Bike |
VMCC powered by Y Beic |
Open |
Senior |
47 |
8:47 |
Dan LAASNA REUTER |
TT Bike |
Virtual Cycling Club |
Open |
Veteran |
48 |
8:48 |
Mark HAZELL |
TT Bike |
Clevedon & District Road Club |
Open |
Veteran |
49 |
8:49 |
Neil GREGORY |
TT Bike |
Port Talbot Whs CC |
Open |
Veteran |
50 |
8:50 |
Dan KINGSTON |
TT Bike |
FTP ( Fulfil The Potential ) Race Team |
Open |
Veteran |
51 |
8:51 |
Joanna LEGGE-KNIGHT |
TT Bike |
Bristol South Cycling Club |
Female |
Veteran |
52 |
8:52 |
Martin LINES |
TT Bike |
Team Echelon |
Open |
Veteran |
53 |
8:53 |
Mike HALLS |
TT Bike |
Bristol South Cycling Club |
Open |
Senior |
54 |
8:54 |
Neil LEWIS |
TT Bike |
Veloflow CC |
Open |
Veteran |
55 |
8:55 |
John O’DWYER |
TT Bike |
Velo Club Bristol |
Open |
Veteran |
56 |
8:56 |
B Xavier DISLEY |
TT Bike |
AeroCoach |
Open |
C5 |
57 |
8:57 |
Mark BRADLEY |
TT Bike |
Bristol South Cycling Club |
Open |
Veteran |
58 |
8:58 |
David LEIGHTON |
TT Bike |
Velo Club Bristol |
Open |
Veteran |
59 |
8:59 |
Steven COTTINGTON |
TT Bike |
Bath Cycling Club |
Open |
Veteran |
60 |
9:00 |
Owen BURGESS |
TT Bike |
UF Rowe & King |
Open |
Veteran |
Result booklet
Some info to accompany the official result from our TT event on August 13.
2023-VCC25-ResultSheetMore about the rider groupings at our open TT events
On August 13th we’ll again be operating our bonus award system, in addition to the traditional 1st-2nd-3rd format. You might be wondering how the bonus system works. Well, here’s how.
For this event we have 108 riders, which is quite a convenient number as it divides nicely by 9, 12, 27, 4, 6 and 18. Why does this matter? Well, it means that we can carve up the field into lots of smaller fields of equal size. In the end we went for six groups of 18. It doesn’t always work out so nicely, but generally we’re able to divide the event into several mini-events of roughly equal size.
Then we rely on the magic of Spindata to place riders into groups based on their expected performances on the day. Spindata is a statistical model that tracks the performances of many thousands of rides each year and ranks all active TT riders into what is effectively a very long league table. This enables a prediction/forecast the 108 riders at our upcoming event — the idea being that if all riders perform in line with their recent history, then they can be expected to finish in a specific order on the day.
So we’ve taken that expected finishing order and used it to define six groups — the theory being that the riders in each group are roughly on par with other, based on current form. Here’s how it looks:
GROUP 1 | GROUP 2 | GROUP 3 | GROUP 4 | GROUP 5 | GROUP 6 |
Jon HOWARD | Richard LLEWELLYN | Martin LINES | Roger WHITTLE | Paul ROGOLL | John HOWELLS |
Matt FISHER | James MCGRATH | Rufus KING | Tony LAKE | Andrew ALCORN | Peter WILSON |
Steven COTTINGTON | Mark WOOLFORD | Haydn DAVIES | Daniel KEMPE | Roger WOOD | Chris JONES |
Conrad MOSS | Jonathan SAYCE | Phillip TURNER | Paul HEWITT | Paul BRICKELL | Peter LOADER |
Karl NORRIS | Matthew HILL | Christopher NEWBY | Matthew LLOYD-LEWIS | Stephan WILCOX | Simon JACKSON |
Tony CHAPMAN | Steven PINK | Michael PORTLOCK | Mark HAZELL | Steven BUCKLEY | Peter OWEN |
Paul JONES | Jonathan MILLS-KEELING | Gary JONES | Marco MARLETTA | Mike BROADBENT | Robert JONES |
Jack KELLAM | Tim RADLEY | Daryl STROUD | Chris LEA | Digby RUSLING | Neil BROOKS |
Tim WOOD | Dan KINGSTON | Graham ROGERSON | Justin FORD | Peter IFFLAND | Russell BOON |
Andy CRITCHLOW | Daniel WYATT | Vincent DOUGLAS | Steven LORAINE | Adrian OSBORN | Ian DEAKIN |
Robert FRANCIS | Jeremy ADDIS | Simon DIGHTON | Paul WINCHCOMBE | Hugh DAVIES | David ENGLAND |
Henrik PERSSON | Lee FRANCIS | Mark BRADLEY | Steve DUMMETT | Cliff VOLLER | Donald PARKER |
Anthony JONES | Andrew J PARNOWSKI | Neil GREGORY | John MARINKO | Tom COX | Michael COLLINS |
Samuel WADSLEY | Iwan MORTON | Matthew RUSSELL | Karl MOSELEY | Andy KELLY | Michelle LINDLEY |
Owen BURGESS | Keith DORLING | Lee HOWARTH | Tim FLETCHER | Seb NAVARRO | Emma DAVIES |
Jake SARGENT | Mark HAMER | George THORNE | Roxy WOODFIELD | Andrew SIMPKINS | Roxanne JONES |
Christopher GIBBARD | Chris JONES | Mark SANDERS | Emma WYATT | Bethan OUSELEY | Joanna KNIGHT |
Kate ALLAN | Andrew METHERELL | Robbie DISNEY | Claire EMONS | Joanne JAGO | Lisa ELLIOTT |
Regardless of age or gender, Spindata tells us that the riders in each group are of roughly similar ability based on their current form. We’re awarding a bonus prize to the fastest rider in each group, and this means that riders right across the spectrum all have a fighting chance of picking up an award if they outperform expectations on the day.
We like this idea because it means that riders at all levels have can compete against others who, quite literally, are in their league — they won’t all be challenging for the top honours but they can still earn a contribution to their travel costs if they can beat their peers.
So that’s it. It takes a bit of getting used to, but the system has proved very popular in the past and we’ll continue to operate a version of it into the future.
A happy new year for VCC!
VCC riders have made a superb start to 2023, notching up multiple club records, PBs and podium positions.
Let’s start at the very beginning; a very good place to start. The Cardiff 100 Miles RCC kicked things off with their annual New Year’s Day TT event, this time on the R10/9 course which starts near the RAF base at St Athan and turns at the BA maintenance depot at Cardiff Airport. You wouldn’t call it a sporting course but, as ten-milers go, it’s not the flattest either. More significant is the exposed nature of the track. At that time of year the weather is, well, changeable and this can make it a challenge just to stay upright — especially if you’re using a disk wheel!
Ten hardy riders took to the course that day, including three from VCC. Our thanks go to Kyle Blackmore, James McGrath and Lewis Richards who did us proud by occupying three of the first five places on the day. Huge congratulations to you, chaps. Your three rides take our tally for the course up to eight overall, and they represent the quickest three we’ve registered.
Previously the VCC course record stood at 25m 58s, courtesy of Jeff Rees on a warm July evening in 2021 (in generous conditions that produced the all-time course record). All three VCC riders smashed Jeff’s club record on NYD 2023 but technically speaking, because of their starting positions, the club record was broken only twice. Lewis went off at 13:11 on the day, and returned 23m 48s later to snatch the record that Jeff had held for eighteen months. However, Lewis’ hold on the record lasted less than two minutes as it was immediately improved by Kyle Blackmore who had started four minutes later and returned in 21m 36s. James started a further four minutes behind Kyle, and stopped the clock at 23m 46s — again, a massive improvement on Jeff’s 2021 mark and good enough for fourth position on the day.
Kyle’s time clinched the overall win in the men’s event, nineteen seconds ahead of his nearest challenger. A superb start to the year and a fantastic result for the club — our first ever event win! With such an outstanding performance, especially given the course and the time of year, Kyle signalled that the all-time VCC 10-mile record would be under threat later in 2023. Once again, massive congratulations to all three.
Finally a special mention to a couple of very talented fourteen-year-olds. The juvenile divisions were clinched by Mabli Phillips (Maindy Flyers CC) and Alex Coles (Evolution Racing Academy) whose times of 25:49 and 22:19 were also good enough for 1st (female) and 3rd (male) in the overall standings. Bright futures for both, no doubt.