| Race | Race Pos | Name | Club | Cat | Cat Pos | Series Points |
| ABCD | 1 | matt holmes | Arctic Aircon RT | B | 1 | 20 |
| 2 | Dave Tate | Destination Bike RT | C | 1 | 20 |
| 3 | Marco Coppola | Colourtech RT | C | 2 | 16 |
| 4 | Matt Steel | Pronto Bikes RT | C | 3 | 14 |
| 5 | Simon Potter | Team Aerocycles | A | 1 | 20 |
| 6 | Graham Galvin | East London Velo | D | 1 | 20 |
| 7 | Jamie Bishop | Newhall CC | C | 4 | 12 |
| 8 | David Farrow | Eagle Road Club | D | 2 | 16 |
| 9 | Paul Spiceley | Glendene CC | C | 5 | 10 |
| 10 | Andrew Buurman | Rapha CC | D | 3 | 14 |
| 11 | Marek Siwicki | addiscombe cc | C | 6 | 8 |
| 12 | Valentino Fontana | Gemini Bc | B | 2 | 16 |
| 13 | Paul Butler | PB Cycle Coaching | C | 7 | 6 |
| 14 | Kevin Attreed | Glendene CC | A | 2 | 16 |
| 15 | Rob Brice | Trainsharp | A | 3 | 14 |
| 16 | Joe Horton | East Grinstead Cycling Club | B | 3 | 14 |
| 17 | Jonathan Donald | London Dynamo | D | 4 | 12 |
| 18 | Nick Symes | VCL | D | 5 | 10 |
| 19 | Andrew MacPherson | Kingsnorth International | B | 4 | 12 |
| 20 | Steve Foster | Team Aerocycles | D | 6 | 8 |
| 21 | Alexander Purcell | Maglia Rosso | A | 4 | 12 |
| 22 | Steve Noel | Paradigm Cycles | D | 7 | 6 |
| 23 | Tim Simpkins | Newhall CC | B | 5 | 10 |
| 24 | Michael Castelete | Kettering CC | D | 8 | 4 |
| DNF | Dan Fentiman | Eagle Road Club | D | DNF | |
| | Simon Constable | Basildon CC | B | DNF | |
| EFGH | 1 | Antonius Wubben | BMCR | E | 1 | 20 |
| 2 | sean kilroy | ELSR | E | 2 | 16 |
| 3 | Chris Beales | ViCiOUS VELO | E | 3 | 14 |
| 4 | Andy Bathe | Newmarket C&TC | E | 4 | 12 |
| 5 | Costa Pierides | Finchley RT | F | 1 | 20 |
| 6 | Nigel Langridge | Crawley Wheelers Race Team | E | 5 | 10 |
| 7 | Julian Niles-Cunnington | Long Steady Days | F | 2 | 16 |
| 8 | Stephen Piper | Schils Doltcini RT | F | 3 | 14 |
| 9 | Helen Taylor-Carter | Beds Roads CC | F | 4 | 12 |
| 10 | Colin Chambers | Crawley Wheelers Race Team | E | 6 | 8 |
| 11 | Steven Wade-Jones | Bath CC | G | 1 | 20 |
| 12 | Damien Foy | Eagle Road Club | E | 7 | 6 |
| 13 | Duncan Thomas | Team Aerocycles | E | 8 | 4 |
| 14 | Julian Boulter | Eagle Road Club | E | 9 | 3 |
| 15 | John Phillips | Sotonia CC | G | 2 | 16 |
| 16 | mark conroy | Dulwich Paragon CC | E | 10 | 2 |
| 17 | Ruth Stapleton | Newhall CC | F | 5 | 10 |
| 18 | Stuart Howard | PB Cycle Coaching | E | 11 | |
| 19 | Laura O’Shea | Swindon Wheelers | F | 6 | 8 |
| 20 | J Paul Bird | Velo Schils Interbike RT | F | 7 | 6 |
| 21 | Dave Tompkins | ciclos uno | H | 1 | 20 |
| 22 | Liz Halliday | Sussex nomads cc | G | 3 | 14 |
| 23 | Dave Woods | CC Luton | H | 2 | 16 |
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EFGH RACE – by Julian Niles Cunnington
This was a poignant day for the Arctic team as Rob passed just last Autumn, and hearts are still broken.
This, Arctics first foray into BMCR race promotion, was warmly anticipated, and over 50 riders (about 25 for each race) decided that racing around Hog Hill in a breezy 2°C was a good idea, and a fitting tribute to Bob. After the obligatory pre race directives, there was a minute’s applause for both Bob and the recently departed Knocker Shields.
At our ages, and with friends and colleagues leaving us like this, it makes every race special, every race a sign of continuing good health and instills in all of us confidence for at least the near future.
There were some new faces for the E+ at Hog Hill, some very good ones too, and all had obviously heard about the winning machine named Chris Beales (Bealesybub to me, my nemesis and summer series co-organiser) as he was immediately surrounded like a champion boxer entering Madison Square Garden on fight night.
Now, a little context here. I usually compile my reports from a position close to the action, or off the front. This time, having not completely shaken off whatever lurgy my workmates had bestowed on me, and having not trained for over 8 days, I took my place at the rear of the race, and wondered how long I could last.
I very rarely DNS, and as this was the 2nd race in my spring series, I felt it my duty to at least attend, and maybe keep quiet for once. If I thought the back of the race was going to be the cushy number, how wrong I was. The early skirmishes, mostly due to CB trying to get away just made the tail enders blow up and form grupettos, meaning I had to work hard to bridge to the steadily shrinking bunch.
Bridging wasn’t supposed to be on the menu today.
It wasnt just CB kicking off at the front, I could just see my team mate and long time racing buddy Antonous Wubben-Moy kicking off and winning both primes in the process. This brought joy to my beating heart, as just 16 months ago, Antonius had a list of broken bones and injuries longer than my want-list to Santa aged 5.
Cyclist vs truck, and the truck very nearly won. To say his recovery has been miraculous is just fact. Miraculous, and many many months of hard work. Welcome back Sir.
So, the primes were done and dusted, after both of which, the added pace was stretching me to the limit, and I could hear myself doing my constipated bear noises, Damian Foy also heard these, to my shame.
If you ever hear these noises, attack, I’m already done for.
There were further attacks and skirmishes ahead, remember, I can see the race unfold from the back! But nothing stuck, and I began wondering if I could make it all the way to my comfort zone, the 4 times up the Hoggenberg, my sanctuary. Unlikely, but I kept going. CB hadn’t been able to break away, Sean Kilroy, Andy Bathe and Antonius I think were instrumental in policing at the head of the race (if I have missed a protagonist out, let me know)
So it was still all together at the first time up the hill, I could sense panic all around with multiple downshifts, so that was good. I kept in a big gear, and drifted through the pack up the steepest (11%) part of the climb looking at all these faces for the first time all race, and latching on to the leaders at the top. It was like being allowed into the captains cockpit in a Boeing 747, seeing the quality riders who had been driving this race for the first time.
2 more of the same and I was feeling ok, probably really crap, but my legs were enjoying the incline.
Unfortunately for me, the bell seemed to fill everyone with bravado and I realized how off the pace I actually was. The flat circuit, not my friend, had almost the entire bunch pass me like I was on a premature warm down lap.
I could just see Antonius going for a very long one, and the bunch coming alive.
My legs reminded me that this was their time whatever the rest of me feels like, and I joined the back of the bunch at the bottom of the hill, kept it in 52×16, and hammered it up the steep bit to eventually get 7th overall.
Antonius won, CB an out of character 3rd, but this new blood will have him training even harder to retain his mantel as King of the Hill.
You’ve been warned.
Thank you to Arctic Aircon for the races and the excellent all round promotion.
Thank you to all who turned up on such a cold day, and thank you to Hog Hill for being there. 🚴🏻♂️🏆🏁🏔️🏔️🏔️❤️
Next race, next Sunday, same place, 23rd March, Andrew Buurman’s Rapha CC St Patrick’s Day Massacre.
