CC Weymouth Easter 10: Topham Unbeatable!, Report,Results

Adam Topham (High Wycombe CC) duly won the CC Weymouth Easter Sunday 10, knocking out a 20:13 on the P451 Winfrith-Owermoigne course in Dorset. A few seconds slower than last year and no £200 prize for a sub 20 mintue ride, something to do with temperature and high pressure? Tophams analytical approach to performance divides opinion, power data, heart rate levels & controlled intervals leave little time for fanciful daydreaming along quiet country lanes. “It’s all turbo, I do twelve hours training a week, if I did that on the road it would be worth about eight hours, I only cycle to race! The one single reason I ride a bike is to race, I only do it for the competition.” Career and family dictate to a certain extent but you suspect Topham would do the same even if he had all day. Third place Rob Pears agrees: “I do all my quality on the turbo, everything is controllable, I like the download! I like the pretty graph, it motivates me, if I fail and look at the graph afterwards I think I could have just dug in harder, I can push myself beyond belief! says the 52 year old. Purists may scoff, what is beyond question however is the efficacy of the approach, Topham will race just 15 times this season, will win all that matters including the British Best all-Rounder title and be done by early September. Sandwiched between Topham & Pears was Good Friday winner Matt Burden with 20.37, Graham Moir (Royal Navy & Royal Marines CA) also scraped inside 21 minutes on a still morning that offered little.

Provisional Result
1, ADAM TOPHAM (HIGH WYCOMBE CC) 20.13
2, MATT BURDEN (SEVERN RC) 20.37
3, ROB PEARS (PROCYCLING MAGAZINE RT) 20.53
4, GRAHAM MOIR(RN&RM CA) 20.54
5, ARAN STANTON (VC ST RAPHAEL/WAITES CONTRACTS) 21.36
6, =DAVE PICKERING (BOURNEMOUTH JUBILEE WH) 21.54
6,= JAMES HORTON 9PRIMERA-SPORTS.COM) 21.54
8, PADDY DUNN (CC WEYMOUTH) 22.01
9, LES PICK (POOLE WH) 22.18
10, STEVE PINK (CC WEYMOUTH) 22.20
11, CLIFF ROWE (BOURNEMOUTH JUBILEE WH) 22.24
12, ANDREW SNOOK (KINGSTON WHEELERS) 22.35
13=TERRY ICKE (VC ST RAPHAEL/WAITES CONTRACTS) 22.36
13=TOM ALLIBAN (1ST CHARD WH) 22.36
15, NICK YOUNG (YEOVIL CC) 22.37
16, PAUL COLES (ROAD CC) 22.38
17, CHRIS RANDALL (CC WEYMOUTH) 22.44
18, SAM WADSLEY (POOLE WH) 22.57
19, CHRIS MARTIN (YEOVIL CC) 22.59
20, BRYCE RIGLAR (CC WEYMOUTH) 23.06
21, RICHARD PORTER (CC WEYMOUTH) 23.19
22, STUART MCPHAIL (RN&RMCC) 23.20
23, DARREN LEWIS (POOLE WH) 23.31
24, PETE JAMES (CC WEYMOUTH) 24.02
25, GARY TUSKIN (POOLE WH) 24.17
26, PETER WILSON (BOURNEMOUTH ARROW) 24.32
27, NICK IRELAND (CC WEYMOUTH) 25.01
28, CLIFF VOLLER (NEWBURY RC) 25.12
29, JAMES CHANT (GILLINGHAM & DIST WH) 25.15

30, CLAIRE MOIR (SCUDERIA RT) 25.19 1ST LADY
31, DENZIL HUNT (POOLE WH) 25.23
32, CHRIS MULLETT (GILLINGHAM & DIST WH) 25.57
33, JOHN BEVAN (1ST CHARD WH) 26.16
34, SARAH WISE (MUD SWEAT GEARS) 26.46
35, TIM BLACKMORE (CC WEYMOUTH) 28.05
36, SARAH WHEELER (GILLINGHAM & DIST) 28.09
37, BOB JOLLIFFE (NEW FOREST CC) 28.27

Team Award :
1st: CC Weymouth (01:07:05)
Patrick Dunn 22:01
Steven Pink 22:20
Chris Randall 22:44

2nd Poole Wheelers (01:08:46)
Les Pick 22:18
Samuel Wadsley 22:57
Darren Lewis 23:31

3rd Gillingham & District Wheelers (01:19:21)
James Chant 25:15
Christopher Mullett 25:57
Sarah Wheeler 28:09