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This route tomorrow: https://www.strava.com/routes/10892680

Meanwhile, could you also send any road race results that you have to Trevor Whittock. He needs to know your finishing position, the categories in the race, the distance, the date, etc.

Our annual crit championship open to club members only. As with the last few editions, the race is being organised by Trevor Whittock and is being run under TLI rules. Anyone taking part will need to take out a day membership of TLI (see the attached document for the form you need to fill in - if you can do this in advance and bring it along on the day, that would be great). Total cost for race entry and day membership should be £10. We will be using the lower circuit at Hog Hill. The race is usually 45-60 mins long.

Much as I'd like to claim top LVCC spot, Mark, it looks like I was beaten by Chris Parker

205 Wood Street, Walthamstow, London, E17 3NU
(a couple of minutes' walk south from Wood Street station)

Mark - I know our event has been down for this slot for ages, but I've just been alerted to a potential clash. CC London have posted on Facebook that they are holding their hill climb on the same day also on Mott Street! I couldn't see a start time on the relevant web page: https://shop.cc-london.com/products/cc-london-club-hill-climb so hopefully they're intending to run theirs after ours has finished. Or is this a joint event? I know we combined ours with Shaftesbury last year, but I've not heard CC London mentioned before.

Edit: I've been told they're going to move their event so it doesn't sound like this will be a problem

Hi David. I think you can use this email address to find out: LVCCkit@gmail.com

Me too and will be marshalling at the 30

We have two more open time trials coming up in a few weeks. On Sunday 24th September it's the Crescent 30, organised by Mark Freeman. A week later on Sunday 1st October it's the Comet 25 organised by Dave McCarthy. These events are named after the two clubs that merged to form Lea Valley CC in 1969. Both races are held on the 'E1' course, which mostly traces the route of the old A11 (which is now a series of B roads) north from Quendon and back again. We will be based at our Race HQ in Ugley. If you've never been there before, this is in the countryside north of Bishops Stortford / Stansted Airport. We'd like as many club members to race as possible and/or offer to marshal / help out. Links below to both races on the CTT website, where you can enter, look at the route, get the contact details for the organisers, etc:
https://www.cyclingtimetrials.org.uk/race-details/16010
https://www.cyclingtimetrials.org.uk/race-details/16056

Ride London, L'etape du Tour, going up the Ventoux three times, suffering in the North York Moors, riding from London to Edinburgh (via London!), the women's Rapha Ride, Rosa bike fitting, the Bill Major time trial, the Reunion, vintage photos, action videos....
https://leavalleycc.tumblr.com/post/164446946903/august-2017-miles-and-miles-and-miles

As it stands at the moment we have two cars heading up and three heading back (!). Four people definitely going up, two more potentials (but unless another car and driver materialises only one of those potentials could go) plus Adam who will meet us in Thaxted. Will do a final shout out on Facebook to see if there's anyone else...

Hi Adam - I'll chase this up on Facebook. I'm still intending to do it. Need to see if Alex, Tim and Caroline are all still planning to do it as the logistics get complicated if we 5 people and 5 bikes heading up but only two cars...

Hi David - hardly anyone seems to be around this weekend, so I've already abandoned the idea of the 6th and am working towards the 20th. I've entered a race this Saturday instead so won't be club running on Sunday. Are you likely to be on the club run? Not sure who the ride leaders are going to be given so many absentees, so maybe you are!

Looking more likely for the 20th than the 6th as things stand

I've got a plan to do a longer than usual ride at B group pace (but other groups are welcome to do it too, obviously) heading a bit further out into East Anglia than normal. It's a ride that I planned and did on my own last August, so I know the route is OK. It will require people to drive, that's the only problem.

The route starts and finishes in Thaxted. It's about a 45-minute drive to Thaxted (in Sunday morning traffic) - you just go up the M11 to junction 8 (Bishops Stortford / Stansted Airport), take the A120 to Great Dunmow and then head north on the B184. In Thaxted there is a free car park with a toilet on Margaret Street.

From Thaxted the route goes north up to Radwinter, then follows our part of our road race course (in reverse) and continues up into Cambridgeshire towards the villages near Newmarket we sometimes use as HQs for races on the E2 course. It then heads broadly east into Suffolk through the middle of nowhere and eventually swings south to Lavenham (which is very pretty). The remainder of the ride is mostly going south-west through several other picturesque villages: Cavendish, Clare and Finchingfield among them.

Route here: https://www.strava.com/routes/6175019

The total distance is just under 83 miles. When I did it last year it took me 6 hours (11:30-17:30) of which 4:51 was actual riding time (at an average speed of 17.1mph). I was trying to get to Lavenham before I stopped to refuel, but I had mistakenly thought it was at the halfway point and it's actually about 10 miles further into the ride than that: I ended up totally out of drink and getting worryingly thirsty quite a way before Lavenham and didn't pass a single shop so when I eventually found a pub a few miles north of Lavenham I had to stop there before I collapsed! Bearing that in mind, we should take on more drinks if we pass any kind of shop after an hour or so.

I'd be looking to do the ride in a similar sort of time - I'd expect B group to go a bit faster than I did on my own, but I'm looking for 18mph, not some kind of Ride London speed fest, and I would like to stop at a pub with a garden (assuming the weather is nice).

Here is a video to give you a sense of the scenery / roads:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4s7SXlKatfI&feature=youtu.be

I was hoping to do this either on this coming Sunday (6th August) or two weeks later (20th August). I've got family stuff to do the weekend in between and I don't want to tread on the toes of the Summerhayes Summer Saunter which should be taking place on the Bank Holiday weekend at the end of the month.

I've got a car and a bike carrier that can take two bikes, so I can give a lift to one person. Who else is up for the ride and who else has access to a car? (And if you do, how many passengers + bikes could you take?)

Also, what kind of time would people like to set off? Let's assume it will take six hours from leaving the car park to getting back there. Let's also allow 15 minutes of faffing around before and after the ride to add to the 45 minutes drive time, so say 8 hours in total. That could be: leave Walthamstow 8am, get back around 4pm; or leave 9am, get back 5pm; or something else?

By the way, it's not worth trying to do it by train instead as the services up to Elsenham / Newport (about 8 miles from the start/finish) are hopeless on a Sunday morning.

good luck

The Ross brothers won the two-up event on Tuesday this week to conclude this year's series:
COLIN ROSS DAVID ROSS 0.22.27 1ST MALE PAIR
TIM HOLMES PAUL ROBERTS 0.23.29
NEIL COYTE EWAN CRALLAN 0.23.43
ADAM BISHOP JAMES MORRIS 0.24.25
JOHN ? SIMON WEPPE 0.24.31
SAM BROWN MATT FOOTE 0.24.44
MICHAEL ROLFE BEN FIELDS 0.25.22
NICK SEXTON KATH HIBBERT 0.25.27 1ST MIXED PAIR
ALICE CUTTER GREG MOSS 0.25.33
BARNEY DULY SIMON HOOPER 0.25.36
CONOR DASH SAM ROWELL 0.25.39 1ST SCHOOL/JUNIOR PAIR
SARAH BURNS TOM GRIMLEY 0.26.03
CHARLIE GREGORY LEE LAVERY 0.26.07
CONNIE HAYES SAVANNAH HEWSON 0.26.19 1ST FEMALE PAIR
PHILL GREEN ELLIOT GREEN 0.26.41
LEWIS MILES SIMON HUGHES 0.26.52
ROSSEN ROUSSANOV STEPHEN TYSON 0.26.61
STEPHEN TAYLOR JOHNATHAN MCOLL 0.27.00
ANOUSHA MINALE TOM BARDILL 0.27.29
ADRIAN TROTT CHARLIEDASH 0.27.36
JOHN DASH AL STEER 0.27.47
CATHERINE GRAYSON CAITLIN PERRETT 0.28.16
DAVE MCCARTHY MARK FREEMAN 0.28.58
CHRISTINE LUTSCH ALASTAIR LINDSEY WALBES 0.29.23
GARRY BOYD STANLEY BOYD 0.29.35
NICKY BIRCH ROB WHITEHEAD 0.29.52
TONY GARDENER STEVE POLLARD 0.30.15
ROBIN STEER COUZENS 0.31.33
BEDE GEOGEOGHAN-HART MAT NOBLE 0.32.32 BORIS BIKES
RICK MANSELL STEVENS HAYES DNF

SOLO RIDES
THEO MODEL 0.21.29
TREVOR WHITTOCK 0.25.42

Full details of prize winners in this attachment

Over two hundred different riders took part in the Tuesday Tens this summer with 59 of them managing to complete the five rides required to take part in the series competition. The rider with the fastest average speed over his five qualifying rides was T. Model with 28.5 mph (he was also the fastest in the male junior category). Second fastest (and winner of the male veteran category) was M. Fink (26.9 mph) and third fastest (and fastest male senior) was E. Crallan (26.1 mph). Tim Holmes narrowly beat Paul Roberts to be the fastest rider from Lea Valley CC (7th and 8th place overall).
Fastest female rider (and junior) was C. Hayes (23.8 mph) and fastest female senior was K. Morris with 23.5 mph. Fastest female veteran was S. Burns (22 mph).
Conor Dash was the fastest schoolboy with 23.5 mph and the fastest schoolgirl was A. Minale with 22.1 mph. Well done to everyone.

Full series results:
1 T.MODEL J 28.53
2 M.FINK V 26.89
3 E.CRALLAN S 26.14
4 M.NOBLE S 26.05
5 S.BROWN S 25.99
6 M.EMERY S 25.97
7 T.HOLMES S 25.53
8 P.ROBERTS V 25.50
9 M.ROLFE V 25.41
10 C.PARKER S 25.30
11 B.WHITEHEAD S 25.28
12 R.BLAIR V 25.10
13 P.SKINNER V 25.07
14 A.BISHOP V 24.90
15 R.BENTLEY S 24.67
16 N.SEXTON S 24.62
17 C.GREGORY S 24.47
18 I.STRAWHORNE S 24.39
19 G.GALBRAITH S 24.23
20 A.TROTT V 24.19
21 T.CARDING S 24.06
22 G.KEMP S 23.94
23 B.SMITH V 23.89
24 G.PATMORE S 23.83
25 C.HAYES LJ 23.78
26 T.WHITTOCK V 23.64
27 S.HOOPER V 23.54
28 CONOR.DASH SB 23.54
29 K.MORRIS LS 23.45
30 C.WEST V 23.33
31 N.DAVIES S 23.26
32 A.KERRIGAN SB 23.08
33 P.VOLNEY S 22.93
34 B.DULY V 22.80
35 S.TAYLOR V 22.74
36 A.CUTTER LS 22.36
37 K.HIBBERT LS 22.25
38 A.MINALE SG 22.14
39 A.STEER V 22.05
40 S.BURNS LV 22.03
41 L.MILES S 21.77
42 S.KURTZ S 21.70
43 M.MOONEY SB 21.42
44 J.DASH V 21.33
45 CHARLIE.DASH SG 21.25
46 C.LUTSCH LS 21.09
47 J.RAMSEY LV 20.70
48 R.PIMLOTT V 20.64
49 A.SELLA SB 20.48
50 D.MCCATTHY V 20.44
51 I.HALL V 20.15
52 L.SPRINGETT LS 19.94
53 R.STEER SB 18.90
54 S.SELLA SB 18.88
55 M.BEN-SHAUL LV 18.70
56 S.BOYD SB 18.43
57 A.HERSCH V 18.29
58 C.COUZINS SB 17.91
59 C.FORBES SB 16.42

Results from the rather wet final solos night, two-up next week will end the series for this year:
1 S.BROWN S 22.57
2 E.CRALLAN S 23.24
3 T.HOLMES S 23.25
4 J.MCCORMACK N 23.48
5 P.ROBERTS V 24.12
6 A.GALLOWAY N 24.38
7 P.SKINNER V 24.40
8 N.WADDELL S 25.04
9 C.GREGORY S 25.05
10 I.HARVEY SB 25.07
11 T.WHITTOCK V 25.16
12 G.PATMORE S 25.33
13 A.KERRIGAN SB 25.35
14 T.CARDING S 25.40
15 S.HOOPER V 25.47
16 F.JENKINS S 25.57
17 A.BISHOP V 26.07
18 B.SMITH V 26.12
19 P.VOLNEY S 26.16
20 C.HAYES LJ 26.25
21 N.IRONS V 26.40
22 CONOR.DASH SB 26.41
23 A.MINALE SG 27.06
24 M.MOONEY SB 27.37
25 N.JARMAN LS 27.51
26 B.GILBEY SB 27.57
27 M.FREEMAN V 28.03
28 J.DASH V 28.18
29 C.LUTSCH LS 28.18
30 CHARLIE.DASH SG 28.37
31 H.DAVEY N 28.52
32 S.POLLARD V 28.59
33 J.RAMSEY LV 29.00
34 R.PIMLOTT V 29.33
35 D.MCCATTHY V 29.51
36 L.SPRINGETT LS 30.36
37 R.STEER SB 31.33
38 S.BOYD SB 32.56
39 G.DONALD N 37.15

This Sunday sees the club's annual reunion event at our Burton End HQ (not to be confused with the Ugley HQ which is a few miles away) near Stansted Airport. Delicious food and the opportunity to chat in the sun (or under the marquees if it's raining) with dozens of club members past and present. There are a lot more details here: https://leavalleycc.microcosm.app/comments/13704733/

Frida needs to know how many people to cater for. When I saw her at the Bill Major TT on Sunday, I think she said there were 36 definite attenders, but about 20-30 'maybes' which makes it quite difficult for her to know how much food to make. Please could you contact her directly (contact details are in the post linked to above) to let her know if you're coming (by Wednesday at the latest)? By the way, the post makes reference to a 'booking form' - this doesn't actually seem to exist, but just let Frida know you're coming and you can pay on the day.

Some of us from the A/B groups are planning a longer than usual club run to take in the event. I've come up with a route that adds up to about 85 miles. This deliberately loops up over round and back to Burton End, so that we don't get there too early (the reunion is supposed to kick off at about 1:30pm). It's about 52 miles to Burton End and then a more direct 33 miles back to London. I imagine we'd stay at the reunion for 2 hours, perhaps 3, but make sure we leave early enough to ride home in sunlight. We would set off from the town hall at 9am as usual and we would probably stop somewhere (Hatfield Broad Oak?) to buy some more drink on the way up. C/Social may well be doing something similar - hopefully some comments will go up here or on Facebook to give the plans.

Here is the suggested route: https://www.strava.com/routes/9555453

1 S.BROWN S 22.22
2 E.CRALLAN S 22.38
3 M.EMERY S 22.45
4 M.NOBLE S 22.45
5 L.DAVIES S 23.09
6 C.CHEUNG S 23.09
7 B.WHITEHEAD S 23.12
8 C.PARKER S 23.12
9 P.ROBERTS V 23.13
10 M.ROLFE V 23.20
11 A.BISHOP V 23.29
12 A.GALLOWAY N 23.32
13 R.BLAIR V 23.36
14 A.AKEN S 23.38
15 T.CARDING S 23.42
16 N.SEXTON S 23.46
17 R.BENTLEY S 23.54
18 P.SKINNER V 23.59
19 G.MARTIN J 24.00
20 L.FORWARD N 24.04
21 T.WHITTOCK V 24.12
22 G.KEMP S 24.15
23 J.MORRIS S 24.16
24 ED.SMITH S 24.17
25 C.TODD S 24.18
26 SAM.BARDILL SB 24.25
27 B.SMITH V 24.34
28 C.GOODWILLE S 24.41
29 B.MANION V 24.45
30 B.DULY V 24.48
31 S.HOOPER V 24.57
32 K.MORRIS LS 24.59
33 G.PATMORE S 25.00
34 A.TROTT V 25.02
35 N.WADDELL S 25.03
36 C.WEST V 25.08
37 C.HAYES LJ 25.12
38 B.FIELDS S 25.14
39 E.GREEN S 25.17
40 A.KERRIGAN SB 25.35
41 N.DAVIES S 25.41
42 P.VOLNEY S 25.47
43 S.TAYLOR V 25.49
44 L.WALK N 25.58
45 M.CHAN V 25.59
46 A.CUTTER LS 26.15
47 G.ATKINSON N 26.15
48 A.STEER V 26.21
49 R.ROUSSANOV S 26.31
50 C.LUTSCH LS 26.36
51 TOM.BARDILL SB 26.41
52 H.CRAMPIN J 26.55
53 A.BULVTUGLU N 26.58
54 J.DASH V 27.04
55 A.JONES S 27.07
56 A.MINALE SG 27.08
57 L.MILES S 27.08
58 L.LAVERY S 27.14
59 M.MOONEY SB 27.18
60 CHARLIE.DASH SG 27.21
61 S.KURTZ S 27.21
62 CONOR.DASH SB 27.22
63 S.BURNS LV 27.26
64 J.DENNYSON LV 27.42
65 J.RAMSEY LV 28.22
66 I.HALL V 28.26
67 L.SPRINGETT LS 28.59
68 R.WHITEHEAD V 29.19
69 B.CLACEY LS 29.29
70 S.REDDY LV 29.34
71 L.LE ROUX S 29.47
72 A.SELLA SB 30.15
73 S.SELLA SB 30.42
74 C.COUZINS SB 30.52
75 R.STEER SB 31.15
76 A.HERSCH V 31.29
77 J.LO S 31.43
78 G.DONALD N 35.29

I think it will be very tricky to ride as a group if people are in different waves with different start times. Both times that I've done the event (2014 and 2015) I've set off from the Olympic Park as part of a Lea Valley team of four (though, actually, I think there were only three of us) and then lost everyone else somewhere between the Tower of London and Harrods never to see them again.

Hi Mark / Armin, my best '25' in the last three seasons is 1:04:12 on 26/9/15. Jamie

Do you need to know our previous fastest times?