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The club’s first time trial of the year – the 22.23-mile hardriders event – took place on Sunday 11 March at Poynings.

Results were as follows:

1. Joel Draper                      1:01:01
2. Simon Dowling              1:02:21
3. Jonathan Morcombe  1:04:45
4. Jamie Smith                    1:07:48
5. Kat Avramides               1:08:00 (women’s course record)
6. Juha Aaltonen                1:09:08
7. Tomas Navickas           1:10:46
8. Robin Johnson               1:22:59

A fine win by Joel and his first in this trophy on a reasonable morning but very wet roads. Congratulations also to Kat for setting a new women’s course record.

Time trialling is cheap and easy.

Well, easy is perhaps not quite the right word.  It’s actually very hard. It’s not called the race of truth for nothing. It’s all about you and the clock. No excuses, no respite.

But what is easy is trying it out. Check out the newly published list of club events for 2018 and why not make this the year that you stop thinking about doing a TT and actually do one?

We’ve put together a simple set of guidelines for those of you who are new to riding in a group – or more experienced riders who want to remind themselves of the rules of the road.

Before you join your first Mitre ride, please make sure you’ve read this first – it won’t take long and it could prevent an accident.

Download the new guidelines here: Group Riding Guidelines 15July17

The first of the summer’s three Mitre 10-mile time trials took place on 1 August at Wineham (course G10/99).

Nine BMCC riders took part:

1. Alex McLaren 23.29
2. Martin O’Neill 24.29
3. Simon Dowling 24.32
4. James Danvers 24.37
5. Joel Draper 25.19
6. Jonny Coate 25.53
7. Ed Sowden 27.59
8. Tall Paul 28.50
9. Robin Johnson 29.30

Overall fastest was Steve Kane, Brighton Excel with a time of 23.13.

Mitre was the second fastest team at the Sussex Cycling Association Open 30-mile time trial on Sunday 30 July, with Don Parker winning his age category.

The BMCC road bike 10 took place on 8 August and featured 11 riders, four of whom were Mitre. Overall fastest was Mike Coyle who finished in 22.30. Martin O’Neill was fourth in 25.13, Joel Draper was sixth in 25.27 and Robin Johnson was an honourable eleventh in 31.34.

The final 10 of the season will take place next Tuesday (15 August) on the Wineham course from 1845.

On 22 and 29 August, the club hill-climbs will take place at Mill Hill (course GH/94).