Lawrence and Pillinger take the prizes at Ashman 2016

Ashman Results - Sunday 10th July 2016

The first club trophies of the 2016 season were contested today by 21 riders over two laps of the 11.2 mile Abbotsley circuit.

On offer were the Ashman Handicap trophy awarded to the rider with the best net handicap time over the two laps. The handicap time available is double the handicap time for the 11.2 mile circuit for the Thursday evening TT. Also on offer was the Ashman Fastest Time Trophy, awarded to the rider with the fastest time for the two laps.

Any rider has the potential to win the Handicap Trophy first awarded by the St Neots Cycling Club in 1938 and so this has been contested for the past 78 years. To win usually requires at least a PB on the first lap or to be as close to your PB as possible and also to have a faster 2^nd lap which has the advantage of a “flying start”.

There were certainly a number of contenders for this year’s trophy amongst the 21 who lined up at the start. Conditions were dry and reasonably warm however the wind was gusting over different parts of the course especially where there was no cover available.

On the first lap Danny Brooks, who started 6^th, was first across the line 34 seconds from PB in a time of 30:27 with Neil Adams not far behind 40 seconds from his PB. Chris Green was also showing good form at 34 seconds from his PB. With no PB’s on the first lap it was difficult to predict who would prevail as the eventual winner.

First across the finish line after the second lap was Mick Lawrence who had started 9^th and by this time had overtaken the leader, Danny, from the first lap. Danny was second across the line with Sam MacDonald (started 10^th) a further 18 seconds behind.

It was likely that they would all be in contention for the Handicap Trophy and it would be down to how well they had performed against their individual handicap times.

As can be seen from the results table below it was Mick Lawrence who prevailed with a net handicap time of 51:26 followed by Sam in second place with a net 51:37 and we had three riders tied for third place – Simon Rinaldo, Neil Adams and Chris Green – who all had a net handicap time of 51:42. 16 seconds separated thefirst five riders om handicap.

Congratulations to Mick who improved by 34 seconds on his second lap and with only 3 riders doing this and with Mick’s improvement the best of the three this ensured his victory for 2016.

It is interesting that while some riders turn up to compete there are others ( Dan Baxter and Stephen Lyons) who without any shame turn up for the coffee and cake only and then like Dan decide to grab the celebrity limelight by including themselves in the group photo . He is the one that everyone is looking at (black top) as it has been pointed out that he should not be in the picture!

Emtrants

Mick

Ashman Handicap Results – 10^th July

			First	Second	Actual	Second	Handicap	Points
	Name	H/Cap	Lap	Lap	Time	Lap Fastest	Time
1	Mick Lawrence	6:56	29:23	28:59	58:22	Yes	51:26	21
2	Sam MacDonald	6:14	28:59	28:52	57:51	Yes	51:37	20
3	Simon Rinaldo	3:06	27:08	27:40	54:48	No	51:42	18
4	Neil Adams	9:36	30:28	30:50	61:18	No	51:42	18
5	Chris Green	5:46	28:27	29:01	57:28	No	51:42	18
6	Danny Brooks	9:48	30:27	31:06	61:33	No	51:45	16
7	Nic Pillinger	1:30	26:32	26:48	53:20	No	51:50	15
8	Keith Barton	3:32	27:25	28:07	55:32	No	52:00	14
9	Steve Owens	5:40	28:40	29:25	58:05	No	52:25	13
10	Mark Greenhow	4:20	28:22	28:36	56:58	No	52:38	12
11	Richard Broad	5:28	28:51	29:21	58:12	No	52:44	11
12	Mark Mossop	4:00	28:26	28:24	56:50	Yes	52:50	10
13	David Spoors	16:00	34:25	34:54	69:19	No	53:19	9
14	Pat Ellerbeck	5:46	29:19	29:51	59:10	No	53:24	8
15	Paul Littledyke	7:50	30:22	31:04	61:26	No	53:36	7
16	George Lendrum	11:38	32:44	32:54	65:38	No	54:00	6
17	Leon Bradford	14:46	34:01	34:58	68:59	No	54:13	5
18	Simon Richardson	5:08	29:32	30:19	59:51	No	54:43	4
19	Jon Keefe	15:12	35:26	36:33	71:59	No	56:47	3
20	Geoff Smith	5:14	30:43	32:53	63:36	No	58:22	2
21	Dave Richards	13:42	33:44	40:56	74:40	No	60:58	1

Ashman Fastest Trophy

As mentioned above also available to be won was the rider with the fastest actual time around the 22.4 mile circuit. Looking to defend his Trophy from 2015 was Nic Pillinger and with two sub 27 minute laps of 26:32 and 26:48 and an overall time of 53:20 Nic prevailed once again in 2016 to take the Trophy. Second fastest was Simon Rinaldo with Keith Barton taking third place.

Congratulations to Nic on winning the Trophy for the second successive year.

Nic

Mark Mossop clearly knows a thing or two about pacing himself delivering a 28:26 first lap and a 28:24 second lap !!

		First	Second	Second	Actual
	Name	Lap	Lap	Lap Fastest	Time
1	Nic Pillinger	26:32	26:48	No	53:20
2	Simon Rinaldo	27:08	27:40	No	54:48
3	Keith Barton	27:25	28:07	No	55:32
4	Mark Mossop	28:26	28:24	Yes	56:50
5	Mark Greenhow	28:22	28:36	No	56:58
6	Chris Green	28:27	29:01	No	57:28
7	Sam MacDonald	28:59	28:52	Yes	57:51
8	Steve Owens	28:40	29:25	No	58:05
9	Richard Broad	28:51	29:21	No	58:12
10	Mick Lawrence	29:23	28:59	Yes	58:22
11	Pat Ellerbeck	29:19	29:51	No	59:10
12	Simon Richardson	29:32	30:19	No	59:51
13	Neil Adams	30:28	30:50	No	61:18
14	Paul Littledyke	30:22	31:04	No	61:26
15	Danny Brooks	30:27	31:06	No	61:33
16	Geoff Smith	30:43	32:53	No	63:36
17	George Lendrum	32:44	32:54	No	65:38
18	Leon Bradford	34:01	34:58	No	68:59
19	David Spoors	34:25	34:54	No	69:19
20	Jon Keefe	35:26	36:33	No	71:59
21	Dave Richards	33:44	40:56	No	74:40

Handicap Results – Total

With points available towards the 2016 Handicap Trophy ( see table above for points awarded) Sam Macdonald continues to maintain his lead , however the chasing pack are not relenting in their pursuit of the Trophy and the top 7 continue to accumulate valuable points. Continuing to ride to their PBs or better plus not missing too many of the remaining TT’s will keep all these riders in contention.

					Ashman
		23/06/2016	30/06/2016	07/07/2016	10/07/2016	TOTAL
1	Sam McDonald	0	27	0	20	169
2	Keith Barton	5	20	21	14	151
3	Neil Adams	0	14	10	18	132
4	Danny Brook	0	22	0	16	128
5	Chris Green	9	24	0	18	126
6	Simon Rinaldo	14	17	18	18	113
7	Nic Pillinger	10	21	0	15	103
8	Jane Kinnaird	4	15	0	0	98
9	Daniel Biggs	6	19	15	0	92
10	Dave Richards	1	10	0	1	92
11	Roger Silk	12	7	0	0	90
12	Pat Ellerbeck	0	16	0	8	90
13	Leon Bradford	11	0	17	5	85
14	Simon Murphy	0	28	0	0	83.5
15	Mike Biggs	0	23	19	0	83
16	Stephen Lyons	0	26	20	0	83
17	George Lendrum	0	8	13	6	76.5
18	Gareth Smith	13	18	0	0	72
19	Richard Broad	0	5	14	11	68
20	Tony Chin	0	13	0	0	60
21	Dave Lindsay	7	12	0	0	59
22	Tim Gee	0	0	0	0	53.5
23	Alistair Henderson	8	2	9	0	50
24	Mark Greenhow	0	0	12	12	44
25	Glyn Cartwright	0	0	16	0	40
26	Steve Owens	0	0	0	13	39
27	Mark Mossop	0	6	11	10	38.5
28	Matthew Van den Bos	0	25	0	0	38
29	David Spoors	0	0	0	9	38
30	Paul Littledyke	0	3	7	7	37
31	Tom Dunkley	0	29	0	0	29
32	Mick Lawrence	0	4	4	21	29
33	Dan Baxter	0	0	0	0	25
34	Darren Preston	0	11	0	0	22
35	David Wilson	3	1	5	0	22
36	James Thomas	0	0	22	0	22
37	Jon Keefe	0	0	6	3	22
38	Simon Richardson	0	9	2	4	21
39	Rebecca Layland	0	0	0	0	18
40	Richard Hancock	0	0	0	0	17
41	Ed Porteus	0	0	0	0	17
42	Ian Turner	0	0	8	0	16
43	Richard Harris	0	0	0	0	7
44	Judith Hancock	0	0	0	0	6
45	Daniel Grant	0	0	0	0	4
46	Jon Sheasby	2	0	0	0	2
47	Adrian Taverna	0	0	0	0	1

Timekeepers

Once again we need to acknowledge the great contribution made by our timekeepers – Mandy, Colin and John – who allow the rest of us to race. They willingly give up their time to push us off, take jerseys and bottles into their care, make sure everyone is signed in, allocate the numbers and then ensure that we are timed correctly. On duty today were Mandy and John and of course additional thanks to Mandy for the wonderful cakes and the tea and coffee .