Red-hot Brown sets standard

4:40pm Wednesday 14th May 2008

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CYCLING: In-form Wyre Forest rider Michelle Brown continued her superb season with victory in the Bath CC 10 mile time trial and smashed the club's record.

Brown finished the course in an impressive time of 21 minutes and 56 seconds, beating the 12-year-old time of 23-17 set by Carolyn Ward.

Wyre Forest's Karl Davies also rode well to finish in a time of 23-42.

Brown then went on to trounce her opponents in round four of the Rudy Project TT at Newmarket on Saturday.

Despite very hot conditions she finished with a two-minute lead over her rivals, completing the course in 53-24, followed in second place Louise Day of Fat Birds CC (55-50) and Jenny Lloyd-Jones (56-02) of London Dynamo.

Warren King put in another solid ride in the veterans category to finish in sixth place, with a time of 50-41. His consistent rides over the four rounds means he is the club's leading rider in the competition.

Wyre Forest riders were in good form in the Abertillery and District Wheelers 25m time trial at Monmouth on Sunday.

Gary Bartram rode superbly to finish in a season's best time of 57-02 cross the line in 18th place overall.

Dave Wood completed the course in a time of 58-37 for 28th place. Davies rode well to finish in one hour 1-21 for 50th place.

Eighteen of the 26 riders set personal best times for the course but Blacker was over a minute clear of the field and broke Chris Morris's three-year-old course record with a fantastic time of 22-12.

King (23-23) rode well for second place, narrowly beating Lorenzo Buratti (23-25) into third place.

Wyre Forest club race results: Jon Howard 23-47; Andy Convery 24-30; Joe Rowe 24-37; Andy Overton 24-46; Ian Connolly 24-47; George Taylor 25-47; James Smith 26-28; Mark Leyland 26-43; Andy Cottrill 26-43; Brian Clarke 27-06; Andrew Bowles 27-18; John Smith 27-25; Phil Hunt 28-10; Ruth Finney 28-19; Dave Briggs 28-40; Chris Edmonds 30-08; Ian Wall 30-23; Louise Rotheram 30-55; Aaron McCulloch 31-03; Alex Hamer 32-29; James Plant 32-55; Norbert Wysocki 33-26; Adrian Kraemer 33-31.