Goodwood 16th May

Festival RC had three riders take to the line at the Surrey League event at Goodwood this weekend. Mark Workman, Stuart Harris and myself.
In a large field, there were numerous attacks but with a stiff breeze blowing, none of them gained any significant time, so a sprint finish was almost inevitable.
On the last lap, Stuart stayed close to the front as the pace wound up and although being pushed off line somewhat through the final chicane, produced a strong finish to net 9th place - a great result.
Myself and Mark rolled in with the main field, with me being glad to get my first race of the season under my belt.
Hopefully get a good turnout for the next event at Goodwood on 30th May.

Surrey League

Just noticed there are no FRC riders included in the Surrey League rankings? Is there a reason for this?

Florida Masters Cycling

While we were in Florida during the winter I was involved with the forming of a cycling club for us older guys. It is called “Florida Masters Cycling”. The aims of the club are “To support, enhance, and promote the performance, fitness and safety of men and women Masters level cyclists in Florida”. At the moment there are very few senior category races in Florida above the 55 plus age group. The idea is to encourage promoters to include the higher age groups by guaranteeing them an entry in a given category to make it worth their while.
There were seventeen of us involved in the inaugural meeting counting as founder members. The jersey design is typical American and depicts a snake in the shape of a bicycle with rider. This I resisted but was outvoted as they insisted that it was an indigenous species of Florida. The original seventeen of us have “Founding Member 2010” on the front of the jersey which is nice. I felt that this should read Founder Member but had to bow to our Canadian President and close friend who is an ex English language teacher. We have a total of eight fully paid up sponsors so far all depicted on the jersey.
There is quite a good web site and if you go to www.flmasters.com you can view membership information, photos, member’s biographies etc. Also if you go to http://floridamasters.blogspot.com you can read about the club’s current racing results together with corresponding pictures.
I hope this may be of interest to some of you particularly if you are considering visiting Florida at anytime.

BryanS

Goodwood on Sunday

Myself and Mark Workman (who finished 4th here a couple of weeks ago) are riding this event. Be good to see some other FRC jerseys if you're thinking about racing this weekend.

Festival at Thruxton

Taking James's lead with a circuit race season opener, last Sunday was my first race of the year at Thruxton Motor Racing Circuit. In bright sunny and mild conditions a bunch of 60+ 3rd's rolled away for a swift 12 laps (56km)
Racing was fast from the start with immediate attacks and a group of nine (including myself)working well and easing away on the 2nd lap. The break stayed together until the end and into the wind and the finishing straight, I managed to sprint past the others take the win.
Looking forward to riding at Goodwood this Sunday with Mark, James and some Festival teamwork.

SWRC Springonion Sportive 2010

What a pleasant cycle ride with the two Colins. shame I couldn't keep up with them all the way around. Problem came once Mr McDermott had warmed up and started to tap out a pace which was a bit to quick for us old uns especially once we got to Bedham Hill

Photos of all Club boys sportivephoto.thirdlight.com - SWRC spring onion

Richard Smith 49, Roger S 43, Dave M 173, Brian W 198, Alan F 237, Noel 235, Colin B 236, Colin Mc 239

Which event is next?

Club SL Spring RR

Mark Workman takes fifth place in the morning event - well done Mark

Andy Bryson wins afternoon event