Race Results March 2005

GOLDEN PERFORMANCE FOR FVS TRI LADIES!

In a busy Easter weekend, FVS TRI competed in cycling, duathlon and swimming events with their ladies taking honours at Welwyn and Milton Keynes. 

WELWYN HILLY 50k TIME TRIAL Good  Friday

Cycle Time Trial over 50k 

Paula Leading Lady at Welywn 

FVS TRI competed in force at the popular Welwyn Hilly 50k Time Trial. This prestigious event attracted a quality field of nearly 100 riders and was won in an amazing time of 1:11:46 despite the course taking in many of the steepest hills in the local area. 

Paula Adams in her first open time trial was the first lady home with a time of 1:37:20, just 2 seconds ahead of the 2^nd placed female! 

FVS TRI had the biggest turnout of the 8 clubs competing and managed a superb second placed Club behind time trial specialists Verulam CC.  

The top 3 FVS TRI riders from the 94 finishers were Michael Summers, Jeremy Prodger and Gavin May. 

 There were personal best performances from 5 FVS TRI riders with Jon Gillham and Jackie Perry showing improvements of over 5 minutes from 2004.  Unfortunate Mick Clark was the only rider to puncture in the race. He managed to fix his racing flat in 6 ½ mins to finish just under a minute slower than last year!

Saturday 26^th March 2005

MILTON KEYNES DUATHLON

2m run/10m bike/2m run 

Jackie Wins the Series! 

After a super performance in the Good Friday Welwyn TT, Jackie Perry then went on to win the Female Veteran Race and also the prize for leading lady in the 3 race series held monthly since January. Improving all the way through the series, Jackie was joined by Lesley Dutton who won 2^nd Veteran Lady with a PB, again despite competing the previous day. 

Steve Harrison was leading FVS TRI member with a superb 13^th in his first duathlon. Keith Perry and Paul Dutton completed the series with PBs, despite racing the previous day, and also for Jon Gillham who built on his Welwyn PB with another at Milton Keynes. Guy Adams also showed a massive improvement of nearly 7 minutes on his first outing in January. 

FVS TRI was the leading Club in the series and had the biggest turnout in all 3 races. Great support was enjoyed by the competitors with leading FVS TRI cyclist Mickey Summers having cycled over to Milton Keynes to continue his mileage build up for the cycle racing season! 

SWIMATHON 

To continue the multi sports theme 3 FVS TRI members completed the 5K swim in the Swimathon 2005, an annual national swimming event for charity. 

Ian Hobbs completed the 5000m in 1:33:55 and Mandy Waters improved on last years time by 10 minutes to complete the event in 1:39:47. Jessica Willcocks swam for 2:02:13 and all 3 used the event as quality endurance training in preparation for their triathlon seasons about to start in the next few weeks.

Sunday 20th March 2004 

OAKLEY 12 & 20 Mile Road Races

Mark Simpson of FVS TRI celebrated with a top 25 placing from nearly 500 finishers in the   Oakley 20 mile road race.

Together with Darren Woodhall, who placed 27^th in the 12 mile race, they were celebrating the recent affiliation of FVS TRI as an official running club. 

FVS TRI are now probably the regions top multi sport club offering members the opportunity to train and compete in triathlon, cycling and now running. 

Mark is completing his build up to the London Marathon and recorded an excellent time of 2:15:14 for the hilly 20 mile event to give him a top 25 finish from the 458 finishers. 

Woody was 27^th from 118 finishers in a time of 1:31:56 and continued his build up for the Milton Keynes Half Ironman Triathlon by cycling the 25 miles to the event before competing in the run race!

Sunday 13^th March

TRI PRESTON 8 TO 80 AQUATHON

SWIM (400m) / RUN (3K)

Simon Patenall was in good early season form taking 3rd male senior in the Preston Aquathon.