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THE VETERAN

THE QUARTERLY MAGAZINE OF THE

VETERANS TIME TRIALS ASSOCIATION
Founded in 1943 to promote cycle time trialling for those aged 40 and over
Number 64 March 2020

CONTENTS
Officials Reports and Notices 4 - 9 National AGM Summary 16 - 18
Norman Harvey Awarded DLM 10 Obituaries 19 - 24
Angela Carpenter Profile 11 - 12 Around the Groups 25 - 47
Notes On the AGM Workshop 13 Vets Handicapping Proposal 48 - 49
National Prize Presentation Report 14 - 16 Notice Board 50

There seems to be much going on within the VTTA as the NEC press ahead with updating our
competitions and results processing via our website and by closer integration with the CTT system,
whilst continuing to respect the 75 plus years of tradition which this organisation has accumulated.

Those of you who were at the AGM will know that the proposal to make the season long
competitions live and regularly updated on the website has been enthusiastically received. In my
own group our Recorder had gone above and beyond the call of duty to include as many
participants as possible in the 2019 results. His reaction to the proposal was “Great. That’ll save
me about 100 hours work!” The Chairman’s Piece updates us on progress - it is now a live project.
Looking back through old ‘Veterans’ and other publications the letters page was always a very
lively feature, with views expressed on a range of subjects and the more contentious of such
generating some animated responses, I was pleased to be able to publish just such a letter in
December, from ‘Rudyard Ryder’, proposing an alternative method of processing VTTA time trial
results by age adjustments. I awaited a response from members either by email or snail mail and
I even scoured social media for responses. The membership remained silent on the subject!
Maybe most readers didn’t get as far as page 73!

Although the response was slow to come, the concept was eventually picked up by several
members of the National Committee who saw merit in the idea as offering a more readily
understood form of age related competition. This may appeal more to younger vets, but still
retains the same allowances for performance decline with age. Geoff Perry gave a presentation
on the concept at the AGM workshop and positive feedback from those present was given.
Hopefully they will have taken the idea back to their groups and there will be local discussion,
both in meetings and ‘around result boards’, where we will soon be gathering.
If this age adjustment proposal has passed you by I urge you to firstly read the ‘Rudyard letter’ in the
December Veteran, then view the AGM workshop slides available as a document download on the
website, and finally (for now) read the NEC response (by Geoff Perry) at the back of this magazine.
Geoff’s presentation was illustrated by Yeoman Warders (!). Now we all know that Yeoman
Warders are the guardians of the crown jewels, which is effectively what the standards system,

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