25 riders from Icknield RC, Beds Road CC, Hitchin Nomads CC, CC Ashwell and St Neots CC ready at the start line at 10am on a glorious summers’ day on the SNCC Abbotsley 11.2 mile TT course.

We had 1 from IRC, 4 from BRCC, 8 from HNCC, 6 from CCA and 6 from SNCC and on behalf of SNCC thank you for joining us this morning and we hope that for the non SNCC riders you enjoyed our testing course and the coffee and cake at the end.

With sign on at Gamlingay Primary School the riders made their way down to the start line and first off on the day was the second oldest member of SNCC at a mere 79, Geoff Smith, who posted a respectable sub 34-minute time.

The remaining times ranged from a 25:11 to 38:21 with 15 of the 26 (one DNF) posting sub 30-minute times.

The podium places overall were as follows:

.. and for the women’s competition  

Congratulations to the above and to all the riders who finished. Unfortunately, Paul Willamson from SNCC came off on the second bend when leaving Waresley and he reckons he would have been on for third or fourth place. Hope the shoulder heals quickly and that you can continue your racing this season.

SNCC came 3^rd on the day and the full results can be seen at:-

https://www.icknield.cc/racing/interclub/results.php

The overall table (SNCC are 4^th) after 3 events are:-

https://www.icknield.cc/racing/interclub/table.php

The next event is the BRCC 15 on Sun 22^nd Sept, please consider entering it should be a good event.

As always, these events can only happen with pre planning organisation and volunteers on the day to keep the riders safe.

Norman King, SNCC Chairman, organised the event superbly from start to finish and without him the event would not have happened.

Special thanks to Mandy McEvoy for her excellent time keeping and fitting in the rider who got “lost” and missed their time slot on the start time. Mike Biggs for “pushing off” and to Alistair Henderson for assisting with the timekeeping.

Other thanks are to the following for giving up their time and help make the event a great success, in no particular order: Simon Richardson sign on/off (and Marshalling); Marshalls Pat Ellerbeck, John Montgomery, Justin Lomas, David Thomas and Simon Winter.