ROYAL birthday celebrations spilled over into Verulam Cycling club's final evening time trial of the year last Tuesday on the nine-and-a-half-mile Whitwell road race circuit.
Taking place just three days before the Queen Mother's 100th birthday, the course passed in front of St Paul's Waldenbury, her childhood home, and the trial was led off by Tony Brazier, winner of the Coronation Cup road race in 1953.
Appropriately, it was Tony's son Ian who won the event finishing in a time of 22mins 25secs, just over a minute ahead of Les Newton, who was making his return to competition, with Matt Little third.
The club's senior time trial champions, Paul Bennett and Nikki Hunt, both improved their personal bests over 100 miles in Sunday's Westerly RC event with Paul improving his record by a staggering 14 minutes to 4hrs 11mins whilst Nikki completed the course in 4:43.
Les Newton continued his comeback by riding in the Letchworth Velo 25-mile time trial on Sunday and finished just two seconds outside the hour in his first ride at the distance for two years.
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