I-Ride Team News

Bottrill takes 3rd place in mens National 25 in scorching heat!!!

Saturday June 5th, the country's finest riders took part in the Blue ribbon event of time trialling: the men's National 25 championships held at Bourbridge in Yorkshire. 150 riders would take part in the blistering dry heat on the out and back course. The first I-Ride rider was Brett Harwood who suffered with the heat and finished 70th in a time of 57.34. Next to start should have been Geoff Platts, but the day before the event Geoff was hit with the news of his mum passing away. Our thoughts go out to Geoff and his family at this very sad time. Then came the turn of Adam Duggleby who has been in terrific form over the last few weeks winning the Peterborough cc road race last weekend (see below report), Duggleby came home in 29th in a time of 54.55, just proving how hard the conditions were. Julian Ramsbottom came home next with a time of 56.19 for 48th.

Finally the last of the riders got underway, with the likes of Michael Hutchinson, Mark Holton, Wouter Sybrandy, Ben Instone and James Wall, it was going to be a tough test for Bottrill, who has never been one for racing in hot temperatures!! Leaving the start gate at 16:36 Bottrill hit the road and reached the first time check in 25.45 to put him into 2nd spot, just 13 seconds behind Mark Holton of Drag2zero, with just Hutchinson to arrive, who arrived 50 seconds up. On the harder return leg Bottrill started to really suffer and even contemplate climbing off his bike as he was suffering so much!! Slipping further behind Holton, Bottrill stopped the clock at 51.49 to Holton's 51.21, Hutchinson then flashed by the time keeper in a time of 49.34. Once Bottrill had come round we caught up with him "That hurt so much today I felt terrible and really did not think I was going to get a medal, but Peter Lavine and Chris Tennison were giving me time checks and some much needed encouragement at the side of the road. If it had not have been for them I would have probably collapsed at the side of the road!! I also made a big mistake of not carrying a bottle". Finally Bottrill thanked www.cyclepowermetres.com who have given him some great ideas on using a power meter, from this moment on his results can only get better, so be sure to check their website out.

Mens National 25 Result

1st Michael Hutchinson, In Gear Quickvit Rt 49.34

2nd Mark Holton www.drag2zero.com 51.21

3rd Matthew Bottrill I-Ride.co.uk 51.49

29th Adam Duggleby 54.55

48th Julian Ramsbottom 56.19

70th Brett Harwood 57.30

I-Ride Juniors take team award in National 25 champs!

To Finish a great day the I-Ride juniors did great rides to take the team championships and also did great solo rides with Alex Royle taking 4th in a time of 56.02,Tom Lackenby 7th in 56.45 and Harry Whitford came home 11th with 58.17. All three seemed pleased with their rides and gave it everything they had on the day, so well done team.

1st Conor Dunne Glendene-Biketrax cc 54.08

2nd Ryan Mullen Planet X 54.18

3rd Oliver Rossi PCA Ciclos Uno 54.52

4th Alex Royle 56.02

7th Tom Lackenby 56.45

11th Harry Whitford 58.17

7 June 2010