New Champions Crowned! Fairweather and Ketteringham!

Event 12 of the Fulford Cycles Time Trial League saw two new champions crowned on a historic night. Torrential rain for the second week running prior to the event ensured that this was never going to be simple, but thankfully this week it had stopped before the start and twenty three wet, but undeterred riders took part in the fifteen mile out and back between Boroughbridge and Walshford. Fastest yet again was Yorkshire Road Club’s Ian Fairweather, who equalled the course record of 32:53, 27.4 mph on this rolling course. In the process Ian took his ninth straight win in the series of best nine, taking the league crown for the first time. This has been an amazing season for Fairweather, peerless in this series, coming under no threat for any of his wins and convincingly beating the previously reigning champion and a former champion in the earlier rounds. The ladies champion was also crowned, with Joanne Ketteringham taking her tenth win, ensuring that second placed Corinne Mitchell could not equal her previous nine. Again, Joanne has also been peerless and only missed last year’s championship on second places after she tied on nine wins with Carmel Ramwell, who missed this season with injury. Joanne has taken numerous long standing course records in the process. The school boy title is just waiting for Edwyn Owen-Evans to complete his nine events and hopefully continuing his run of setting a record in every event, as he did this week, finishing eleventh overall in 38:13. The only title that has not been wrapped up is the veterans’ title and overall league runner up. Simon Ketteringham may have to wait until next year for a crack at the vet’s but with his strongest hill climb events to come, he really put the pressure on team-mate and vet’s leader Duncan Mullier for second place, by finishing second in 35:11, eighteen seconds ahead of Mullier, who was in turn seven seconds ahead of second placed vet, Malcolm Yates. Full results on nova.mullier.me. The previous weekend Ian Fairweather and Nova riders Simon Hudson and Duncan Mullier took part in the Yorkshire Road Club, Tudor Rose 25 mile Time Trial. Two laps between Topcliffe and South Kilvington and the A19. In strong winds Fairweathet yet again produced a fantastic performance, finishing third out of nearly one hundred riders in a time of 54:43. Simon Hudson was Nova’s first rider back in 17th, just under the hour in 59:43 and Duncan Mullier 23rd in 1:00:26.