Joanne Ketteringham, Champion!

19/07/2011

Event 11 of the Fulford Cycles Time Trial League was nineteen miles and two laps of the Milby-Cundal-Norton-le-Clay-Milby circuit. There was a brisk headwind on the long leg from Milby to Cundall but that didn’t stop Nova’s Joanne Ketteringham claiming her second ladies’ league title in style with a win in 49:05, 1:12 ahead of nearest rival and team-mate Corinne Mitchell. Alison Sarmiento recorded 52:58 in third and Caroline Mullier 60:36 in fourth. Joanne has now won the title in consecutive years both with the maximum nine wins. This year however, she has claimed the title without being beaten and taking four ladies’ records in the process. There are still seven events left for her to add to that tally. In the mens’ event Yorkshire Road Club’s Ian Fairweather, the defending league champion, drew within two wins of the perfect nine wins too. Despite having to briefly dismount after being stung by a bee he still managed to win in a time of 40:59, but would have been thankful it wasn’t a swarm as Nova’s Duncan Mullier was only 25 seconds behind. The win would have catapulted Mullier over Yorkshire Velo’s Nigel Goscinski and into the lead in the vets’ title hunt but second place, an impressive thirty seconds ahead of Goscinski, was enough to close the gap to two points in Goscinski’s favour. The two have now been trading punches for the last few weeks neither managing to beat the other for two weeks running. Nova’s impressive Dave Morris was twenty five seconds further back and ahead of Paul Caswell (43:11) and Simon Ketteringham (43:45), Chris Mawer (43:51). Newcomer Ian Burkinshaw came 8th in 44:13 ahead of the weekly Senior/Shacklock battle. This week it was Rob Senior (44:50) of Nova who pipped Yorkshire Road Club’s Mike Shacklock by a mere eight seconds. The next event is 15 miles from Boroughbridge to Walshford and back.

The previous weekend several local riders enjoyed excellent conditions in the VTTA 25 mile time trial, two laps of Topcliffe to South Kilvington. Ian Fairweather was seventh with 53:05, ahead of Boneshaker’s Oliver Pearce, producing a personal best at 25 miles, with 53:29. Duncan Mullier also produced a personal best in twelfth with 54:44. Nova duo, Simon Hudson and Ian Peacock came home in 56:33 and 56:35 respectively. 

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