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Alex Munro was the final Scotland Group member, being part of
the winning SVTTA 30 mile club team.
Present in her capacity as North Lancs and Lakes AGM delegate,
Sue Cheetham (North Lancashire RC) took a silver medal for
second woman in the 15 mile championship, promoted by North
Group on the remnants of the once super-fast Catterick course.
Yorkshire's Andrew Askwith (Vive le Velo) was present and duly
collected his two Best All Rounder medals, as a member of both
the winning club and group teams.
Double tandem champion at both 15 and 50 miles, Murray Kirton
(Midlands / A5 Rangers), collected gold medals both for himself
and absent partner David Stockley. Ron Hallam won the Short
Distance Competition for a fifth
Next up was Michelle Lee (West / time
PDQ Cycle Coaching), one of the
newer names to rise to the higher echelons of women's
competition, taking third place woman in the Three Distance
Competition (+1:00:03), which included a phenomenally fast 100
mile ride of 3:48:23.
Another lady member to excel
was Kathryn Smith (Notts & East
Midlands / Sleaford Whs), who
collected her medal for third
place woman in the Best All
Rounder with +52:30.
Men’s 24 hour champion Paul Travelling as far as our Scottish
Jackson from Guernsey
members was men's 24 hour
champion Paul Jackson, who hails
from Guernsey but is a member of Surrey/Sussex group and
Team Bottrill. The audience were left wondering how on a small
island he trained to achieve 485.21 miles (+141.12). Scotland’s Patricia Baird,
women’s 30 mile champion
Multiple award winner, and another new name, was Vive le Velo
and Yorkshire group member Darren Yarwood. Darren
was third man in the Best All Rounder (with +1:14:58),
also a member of the winning club and group teams in
the Best All Rounder and a member of the 12 hour club
team.
Peter Horsnell (East Anglian / Chelmer CC) needed no
introduction to the assembled throng and despite
having recently celebrated his 90th birthday he almost
skipped up to collect his awards, which for 2019 were
third man in the 25 (+18:53), 25 mile group team
member, third man in the Three Distance
Competition (+56:59) and a Short Distance
Winners of the C W Cooke Trophy - Competition group team member.
Rachael Elliott and Ian Greenstreet

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