National Cross-Country Series Round 2

 

10 May 2008, Drumlanrig

Images & Report: Joolze Dymond

Link: Whyte Enduro Report

 

Round 2 of the Cross-Country NPS returned to the foothills of Scotland after an absence of 2 years, with Drumlanrig Castle providing a stunning backdrop for a weekend of what turned out to be some of the hottest racing so far this year, literally!

Elite winner Oli Beckingsale came back from the World Cups in great form

Hundreds made the pilgrimage to the birthplace of the modern bike, ready to tackle one of the most technical courses used on the NPS circuit in recent years. Course designer Rik Allsop has crafted a superb network of natural trails that thread themselves for miles around the grounds of Drumlanrig and a crafty 7.5km loop including rock gardens and plenty of rooty action was highlighted for the XC riders to fight their battles round.

A nasty breathtaking climb, just meters from the start, was just the beginning of the testing circuit: masses of dry dusty tricky singletrack lay in wait and the main plan for many competitors was to hit the singletrack sections first to gain an advantage over their rivals, as the twisty, rooty sections left no room for manoeuvre.

The elite riders were out en mass as this round was classified as a UCI Cat 2 race and so plenty of UCI points were up for grabs. Fresh back from an intensive couple of weeks of World Cup races was GB's number one Oli Beckingsale, keen to put his recent form to good use and show the rest of the field why he is top of the tree in this country.

In the mix and hoping to repeat his win from round 1 was Ian Bibby, along with teammate Ian Wilkinson who was runner-up: would we be getting a repeat of Thetford? Absolutely not!

Paul Oldham leads the elite race - whilst right, Sue Clarke was second in the women's race

Paul Oldham, nursing some horrible wounds from his recent encounter with tarmac at the Rutland Classic, took the field up the first climb, with Gareth Montgomerie on his wheel as the rest of the field strung out behind them. Billy Joe Whenman was hoping to fight his way to a top 5 position, but a weird reaction to something he'd eaten the previous day left him gasping for breath and his dad took the decision to pull him from the race.

By the end of the lap, Oldham had slipped back leaving Montgomerie out in front with Wilkinson and Beckingsale for company and Bibby in hot pursuit. By lap 2 Beckingsale had taken the lead in his usual calm style and he stayed up front for the remaining 4 laps to take the win. Meanwhile the race unfolding behind became intense as the remaining podium spots chopped and changed throughout.

Ian Field showed that his World Cup experience of late is beginning to pay of with a cracking ride, from the back of the grid, gliding his way through the pack to finish strongly in second spot, just 1min 47 seconds down on Beckingsale.

Wilkinson, with the next day's Lincoln Grand Prix the next day firmly on his mind, faded over the closing stages of the race, leaving Montgomerie and team mate Robin Seymour to fight it out for the final podium spot. Seymour had a so-so start, but rode himself into the race, watching as others exploded around him in the frantic pursuit of Beckingsale. The Irish champion moved steadily through the field, taking the rough with the smooth. By the final lap he sensed his team-mate was suffering on the climbs and so he took his cue and went for the kill, picking up a spot on the podium, something he hasn't done since the last round of the 2006 NPS season.

Jenny Copnall was once more the target for a cracking elite women's field. Still missing arch rival Amy Hunt who is recovering from a viral infection, and Aussie power house Kate Potter, currently on a tour of the World Cup circuit, nonetheless Copnall is never complacent.

Jenny Copnall keeps on winning in the Elite category

Sue Clarke continues to pick up form and is steadily getting back into the shape to challenge Copnall, but even on technical terrain that she relishes in she had no answer this week to Jenny, who rode a controlled and smooth race, to take another convincing win. Clarke had a better run out than the first round, picking up second, with Meggie Bichard fighting it out with Nadine Spearing and taking the third spot.

Andrew Barlow took the Expert class, whilst Ian Nimmo (right) was top Vet

In the expert race Andrew Barlow picked up his second win of the series: leading from the front, he never looked back. Kona grassroots rider Chris Lane, riding his first season as an Expert, relished the tough conditions and took a well-earned second while Paul Smith took third just 25secs later. Taking charge of the women's Expert race was Abi Greenaway taking her second win of the series with Hilana Marais and Lucinda Insall Jones taking second and third respectively.

Matt Barratt, Master winner

Returning to his winning ways in the masters was Matt Barrett, who despite a tumble on the tricky root steps took a comfortable win over rival Graham Warby, while Robert Enslin took third.

Ruth Mordant, Women Master winner

With a 10 strong field in the master's women category, all eyes were on strong favourite Michelle Bergstrand. She took up the challenge, with only Ruth Mordant keeping her company. However, come the singletrack Mordant took the lead and didn't dare look back in case Bergstrand was close on her wheel. As it turned out Bergstrand's race came to nothing as a puncture on that first lap put paid to her chances, leaving Mordant to take the win. Nina Davies took second with a jubilant Emma Bradley taking her first step on a NPS podium in third.

Junior winners Annie Last and Hamish Creber

Junior Hamish Creber has not had the best of seasons so far but he more than made up for it on home territory as he took a convincing win in he junior race. For second placed Alex Paton his race was nearly over before it had really began. Riding strongly, Paton unfortunately suffered a mechanical on lap 2 seeing him drop down the field to 6th. He spent the rest of the race making up places and closed down Seb Batchelor within the closing stages of the last lap to squeeze Batchelor into third.

With exams on her mind, the women's junior race must have been a moment of relief for Annie Last. This determined and focused felt rider soon made easy work of the technical course picking up her second win of the series, with Annabel Simpson taking second and Carla Haines third.

Earlier in the day we had been treated to some fantastically close racing with the juvenile boys' race coming down to an edge of the seat sprint. The spectators gasped as the two leading riders Alex Baker and Ryan Fenwick came into sight, Baker taking the inside line as both riders descending into the arena side by side. Seconds later and it was Baker who was declared victor by the smallest of margins. Even more drama was played out behind them as Hugo Robinson, limped into the arena with one pedal attached to his bike and one to his foot? He bravely hung onto third with Edward McParland just 4secs behind.

In the girls' race, Beth Crumpton found herself with welcome company as Scottish rider Hannah Ferguson started out fast taking the field with her. Undaunted Crumpton rode her own race coming home to take the win. Meanwhile an ever-smiling Imogen Buick found herself enjoying the technical sections and pushing for home came past Ferguson and began closing on Crumpton, but couldn't bridge that gap - still, she took second with Ferguson taking third.

Despite not feeling a hundred percent, Kenta Gallagher put all his technical skills to good use, romping home in the two-lap youth race to take a comfortable win over Luke Gray and Grant Ferguson, who took second and third respectively.

Youth riders enjoying the bluebell woods

The battle for top spot in the youth women's race was between Ruby Miller and Hannah Shenton. Due to the small field, they started with the boys, but nearly missed the off as they didn't realise the race had started - as a result they also missed the pile up on the first climb and managed to pick their way through the carnage. Millar then got away and stayed away, spending her time picking off lads ahead, before taking the win.

Climb On Bikes had hopes of a 1-2 on the podium as Scottish road rider, Joanne Merritt decided to have a pop at XC in preparation for the Trans Alps later in the year. Her decision paid dividends as her first race off road as a vet put her on the top spot. COB riders Kate Wheeler and team mate Gaynor Lea had to settle for the remaining spots on the podium. Grand-vet Debbie Burton had a great race with the rest of the women despite being the only lady in her class, she would have won the sport class and placed second in the vets.

However it was Rachel Fenton who took the Sport women category, comfortably ahead of Louise Robins and Rachel Wisdom. With, the intense heat resulting in loud thunder and the prospect of an imminent downpour, the last races of the day got underway.

John Richardson lead the Sport race out, blowing kisses as he went, with Dave Henderson and Alex Kinvig in hot pursuit. By lap two Richardson found himself in second with Henderson taking the lead, which he hung onto to, taking the win. Richardson's fast start saw him start to fade and Kinvig took advantage, squeezing him into third by a mere 5secs.

It was another tight battle in the vet's race. Peter Buggle led for two laps, but Iain Nimmo came past on the third to narrowly take the win by just 4secs. Behind, the fight for third raged, with Noel Clough, Mark Chadbourne and Darren Shepherd all in contention. In the end it was Clough who had the finishing power to take that final podium spot.

Ian Wright took the win in the grand vets, fighting off a strong challenge by Pete Harris. Harris meanwhile was fighting his own battle for second, with Billy Matthews determined to stick with the Pearce Cycles rider and give him a run for his money. After a tussle with a few sport riders and Harris found the gap he needed, which he held onto the end.

Ian Field, another rider in form at the moment

The Super Vets' race was a 3-way battle between Victor Barnett, Sandy Wallace and John Lloyd. Barnet took the win, leaving Wallace and Lloyd to fight it out behind in a last minute sprint. Wallace took second, with just 1 second separating him from Lloyd.
Finally, Serge Hunt dominated the open men's race, cruising home with a nearly 10 min lead. Behind yet another outcome was decided by a last minute sprint for the line with Martin Lenney edging out David Padfield.

It was a welcome return to north of the border for the second round of the NPS. Drumlanrig is a stunning setting with some fantastic natural trails that made it well worth the drive, though being an easy 4 hour drive from Birmingham, it was hardly an extreme outing. A great turn out by our Scottish brethren, plus a healthy contingent from Ireland, made the racing even more exciting as a certain unknown quantity was added to the mix, which, coupled with the amazing course, made it a brilliant day's racing - not forgetting the sun, which was an added bonus. The series now moves onto new territory, with the Lake District, a popular destination for many mountain bikers, proving the setting for the next round. It should be another humdinger with Barrie and Sue Clarke helping put the final touches to what will be another challenging circuit ready to test the best of the country. See you there!

Post-Race Rider Reaction

Beth Compton - first Juvenile girl
It was good out there today, a bit more competition which made it more interesting and it makes you push yourself a bit more. I got a good start and got away up the first hill, I got caught by one of the other girls on the descent, but I got away up the hills again and managed to just keep the competition off and got my second win.The course was really technical, I pre rode it the night before and I was really struggling with it and was really panicky, but when I was racing it I was fine, so I was happy with that. It's been fun.

Alex Baker - first Juvenile
That was a really close race over a great technical course. I hadn't pre ridden the course, so I kept falling off, so it made it even more challenging, it was a good course thought. There were 3 of us racing up front, Ryan, Hugo, and myself but Hugo's pedal fell off and he dropped away so it was just down to me and Ryan and it came down to a sprint finish, it was so close.

Ryan Fenwick- second Juvenile
Slightly disappointed to lose out on the sprint but it's okay; it was a good race, with lots of competition, which made it more interesting. The best bit had to be the drop into the arena, great course really enjoyed it.

Kenta Gallagher - first Youth
I didn't think I had such a big a lead as I ended up with in the end. I didn't feel too good on the climbs as I think I'm coming down with a bit of a cold so I'm really surprised that I won. I kept waiting for the chasers to catch me up, I was sure they would, but they didn't. I was really tired, so I just tried to make up my time on the technical sections. This is one of the more technical courses we have and if it had been wet, it would have made it even more interesting. I was hoping it would be a bit wet, but in the end I wasn't too bothered. It was really good fun, I love riding roots and rocks, and this course has plenty of both.

Ruby Miller - first youth girl
Yeah I had a really good race, out there with the boys again. We started with the boys this time as there were only 2 of us in the girl's race, but we didn't really realise that's what would be happening. Everyone just started sprinting off and Hannah and me were sort of oh heck. There was a bit of a pile up at the bottom of the climb, so it was quite good fun fighting your way through the carnage. It was a great race, chasing down the boys, it was funny passing them and they'd try really hard to get back past me, so it pushed me on. It was great fun. I liked the course this is the sort of terrain I really like, though I had a big fall on one of the sections when I was out practising yesterday. I haven't been able to get down it since, though I'm going back out again tonight to try and conquer it ready for the enduro tomorrow. The race plan was just to ride hard, so there was no change from there. My favourite bit has to be the wooded section, where there were two steps going round the tree, I found a really nice line round that so really enjoyed it.

Luke Gray - second youth
Kenta had a good ride; he made up all his time on the technical. I tried to bring him back on the climbs but he just got through the tech sections a bit quicker than me. Still there's a few more rounds to come and I'm really looking forward to tackling those, I'm sure I'll get the top step soon this year.

Joanne Merritt - first woman Vet
That was my first NPS race and my first race as a vet, so I was quite pleased with that. It's the first time I've ridden here too but I'd heard lots of good things about it so it was an incentive to come over and have a go. I'll definitely come back to ride a bit more here now I know how good it is. It was a complete unknown for me today, I didn't know any of the other riders or the course, or when to take a drink, so it was a good learning curve. I really more of a road rider, so this was all quite new. I went out as hard as I could and just saw what happened. It was great I loved it and now I know what to do it can only get better. I'll definitely be having another go in the next round, now.

Alex Paton -second junior
Yeah that was tough. I had a mechanical on the second lap, my front mech worked loose and twisted round so I had to stop and sort that out as quickly as possibly. Hamish managed to get a 20sec gap on me to start, but I managed to bring that down and was pretty close and then I had that mechanical, so that set me back a bit. I dropped back to about 6th spot, so I had to work really hard to get back up to second. It was a good day, well apart from the mechanical; it was a pretty good result. The course was great; I struggled a bit on the tech sections as I've been doing a lot of road at the moment, but I soon got back into it and that'll help for the Euros next weekend.

Hamish Creber - first junior
Happy with that, even though I had a bad gridding and had to fight through the pack to get up front and into the singletrack first. I'd been round the course on Wednesday to practise the course so I had all my lines sorted. I managed to get away on all the descents and kept smooth on all the technical sections and a managed to get quite a good lead. I just rode the race concentrating on staying fast and smooth. I've not had the best start to the season and this has made up for it a bit. So I m really pleased. I'm getting a bit of form now so looking for a good result at the Europeans next week.

Andrew Barlow - first Expert
I took off on the first lap just to see if anyone would go with me, I knew I wanted to get to the singletrack first, just as its so technical, so that went well, and I didn't see anyone else for the rest on the race. This is very similar to the course we rode last year in the Scottish XC, there were a few little bits that were different, but we're used to atrocious weather so this is the first time I'd ridden this dry in a very long time. I've been praying for rain all week so I knew I'd have an edge!! It's really important on this course to know your lines as it's very full on, and if you know where you're going you can save a lot of time and if you got caught behind someone it could be a bit of a nightmare. Great race and I'll be doing the next round now definitely.

Annie Last - first Junior woman
I really enjoyed this race such a different course to Thetford. It's been an interesting couple of weeks, I've finished school but my exams are starting now, it can be mentally tough but it's a lot easier than it was last year. Annabel lead the race out at the start she went off quite fast, I just stuck on her wheel, I got away on the second descent and then on the first corner of that descent slipped of the bike! I think I got a little bit excited. But I kept pushing on at the climbs and gradually pulled away. The hard climbs followed by technical descents make the racing that bit more interesting. But each course the Nationals use are all good in their on way you just have a different style of riding, which makes for interesting racing in their own right.

Jenny Copnall - first Elite woman
It went quite well today, I was fairly smooth, I didn't fall off this time. Usually at Drumlanrig, it comes back to bite me on the bum at some point, it didn't today so that was good. You have to be really calm about riding this course; you have to back off at times, because if you try to ride the technical stuff really hard, you just make errors. I stuck a slightly bigger tyre on the front, just as I felt I needed a bit of front-end grip. The difficulty I have with my races as they are now is not knowing where my challengers are going to come from as there is know any number of people that could be up there. Sue's making moves and getting closer to me but sometimes it can be disconcerting not knowing for definite if I have a direct adversary. I've trained pretty hard this week, I seem to have got over the virus I've had the previous weeks and I'm starting to do a bit more. I like this course a lot, it's well worth the travel to be able to race here, I always enjoy it, well apart from that moment you saw me?

Ruth Mordant - first Masters woman.
This is my first win at the National series and I am absolutely just blown away, over the moon. I felt really strong, the course really suited me, technical, good climbs, I loved it. Michelle was leading the race and I was tucked in behind her, I managed to overtake her coming out of the second bit of singletrack and was shocked not to see her again, but I think she punctured. So that was quite disappointing that that happened to her. After that I was out there on my own, but I felt good and I just really enjoyed myself.

Sue Clarke - second elite woman
I was pleased with my ride today, I was pretty disappointed with how I went at Thetford, but looking back, we'd been to Spain and only been back a week and we'd been putting out 35hr weeks on the mountain bikes, so I was kinda paying the price for that. Thetford's not my favourite course, so if there's going to be one to write off it has to be that one for me.

Drumlanrig is more like proper mountain biking, I went round yesterday and did a couple of laps, first lap I was um, there's not much climbing but when I took another look at it I soon realised it was quite a tough course, which is what I tend to excel at. So yeah I was pleased with today. The plan was to just get a solid ride in, and I was looking for a top 5 results, but I had a plan to start steady and just go faster as eth race went on.

Unfortunately I went a bit too slow at the start and I got caught behind people who were quite slow and that are when the gap went to Jenny. But I rode my own race, got to second spot and started using the heart rate monitor a bit make sure I didn't over cook it as I didn't want a repeat of Thetford where I blew. So yeah I was pleased as I think a lot of people had written me off after Thetford but I didn't really care to be honest, I know where I'm at, and where I'm going and I'm just enjoying my riding.

Christian Lane - second Expert
That was worth the 7 hour trip to get that result, I'm pretty chuffed with that. This was just my sort of course, I might have been expecting a few more climbs, as I thought Scotland equals mountainous. But the course was excellent really good. My only problem out there was mixing my energy drinks up too strong. First lap I took a mouth full and spent the rest of the lap trying to cough it up, luckily the course loops round on its self so I could shout at Dad to water the rest of my bottles down. I wont be making that mistake again in a hurry! Apart from that I had an excellent race. I rode most of the race on my own and tried to stay focused and upright.

Ian Wright - first Grand Vets.
That was a hard race, Pete gave me a hard time right from the off, I just got away on the climb but I knew it wouldn't be long before he came past me. It was a technical course but it was nice and dry so we had a good time out there. I'm so glad I had my USE suspension seat post fitted for this one, it was so rough out there, that without that fitted my back would have gone to pieces I would just have to think twice about riding if I didn't have equipment like that to make the racing more bearable at my tender age.
I slipped up at Thetford, with a second, but I'm back to wining ways. It's been a great race; you can't beat it, a fantastic course, brilliant weather, culture and mountain biking? It doesn't get any better does it?!

Pete Harris - second Grand Vet
We (Ian and myself) went out for a practise ride yesterday and he was following my lines to a T. It was a fantastic course and I rode my new bike out there and it rode like a dream. We had 3 laps of pure enjoyment, I had a really battle with the guy in third, he came past me at one point but I got back, and then he was on my tail for the rest of the race, then 2 sport riders came past us shouting leaders up leaders up but I thought no I'm the leader and held my line into the singletrack first, but my rival made the mistake of letting the two riders get in front of him, I hammered it down the singletrack, he couldn't believe how slow the sports riders were in the singletrack, which left the gap which gave me second and him third. He shook my hand at the end of the day and said good race he enjoyed it.

Robin Seymour - third Elite
Yeah that was hard a tough course, all up and down, no where to get any rhythm, I'm just happy to be back on the podium its great. I've not graced the top 3 since Checkendon 2006. I didn't get on the podium at all last year, so it's been a while. It's good. I've been working on the courses at home Kcapital and I've got a job now, so I haven't had much time to train. I've only really started now after those races finished, so it's taking me a while to get back in shape. I mean I just haven't had any good form at in April. I've been sort of blagging my way through the races, with 20 years in your legs you can get away with an awful lot. You don't have to train that much to keep a reasonable level but you're not quite quick enough to be competitive though.

I've not really had a break after Cyclo-Cross - I just kept it going to get me in form for our selection races, and that really catches up with when you start racing and travelling you just get tried. It always happens when Oli's in a race, everyone tries to go fast from the gun and the race then sort of detonates, so I couldn't stay with the pace on the first lap, I just went through the horrors, the usual, just keeping in contention in the top ten with people snapping at my heels, I was thinking this is disastrous. But I actually started to feel better on the second lap, I was struggling but I was getting it together, then after that each lap went a bit better, I started to catch people picking my way back to the front.

 

Ian Field had a good ride, he only came past me on the second lap and it's good to see him having a good ride, as at the last round you could see he was frustrated -he didn't have the best of years last year, and it's good to see him start to stretch himself again. The last two laps I was riding with Gareth, he was pulling away on the climbs and I was coming back to him on the descents, I thought he was mush stronger but he started to suffer he didn't get away from me on the climbs anymore and he skipped sideways on one of the corners and I managed to get round him and on the last piece of singletrack I just put my head down and went for it. No enduro now, I'm going to train more than race on the lead up to the Olympics.

Oli Beckingsale - first Elite
To be honest after racing 3 world cups in the last 3 weeks my mind was after a weekend off but luckily my body has got through the racing in decent shape and had recovered well so all was good. I knew that a few people would be wanting to push me on the long tech singletracks, so I hammered it a bit for a couple of laps, got a gap then I could take it steady and get round in one piece. I am not doing all of the series this year so its good to win the ones that I am doing. I'm off training now in the Alps for a couple of weeks then its all about riding well at Fort William world cup and the Worlds.

 

 

 

 

 

Results

(Full lap-by-lap analysis in xls spreadsheet 100kb: Download)

Juvenile - Men

1 Alex Baker 00:26:15
2 Ryan Fenwick 00:26:15
3 Hugo Robinson 00:27:20
4 Edward Mcparland 00:27:24
5 John Lomas 00:27:31
6 Martin Turton 00:28:26
7 Stuart Wilcox 00:28:27
8 Alistair Rowland 00:28:52
9 Richard Scales 00:29:16
10 Ross Green 00:30:01
11 Alasdair Taylor 00:30:04
12 Harry Franklin 00:31:52
13 Jack Llewellyn 00:32:34
14 Cameron Balfour 00:34:03
15 Thomas Butler 00:35:14
16 Morgan Mcgonnell 00:35:35
17 Craig Owen 00:35:35

Juvenile - Women
1 Bethany Crumpton 00:33:26
2 Imogen Buick 00:34:16
3 Hannah Ferguson 00:35:18
4 Kirsty Raw 00:35:34
5 Jenna Fenwick 00:37:17
6 Evie Burton 00:49:37

Youth - Men
1 Kenta Gallagher 00:45:50
2 Luke Gray 00:48:19
3 Grant Ferguson 00:48:49
4 Steven James 00:50:25
5 Max Sykes 00:50:40
6 Luke Newby 00:52:18
7 Paul Young 00:53:02
8 Joseph Home 00:53:38
9 Hamish Fletcher Cooney 00:53:44
10 Luke Grivell-Mellor 00:54:22
11 Lewis Kirkwood 00:54:39
12 Mark Sinclair 00:55:05
13 Matthew Adair 00:55:23
14 James Smith 00:55:52
15 Alec Briggs 00:56:35
16 Jack Taylor 00:56:55
17 Ryan Nash 00:57:06
18 Robert Scanlon 00:59:02
19 Sam Russell 00:59:17
20 David Jones 00:59:42
21 James Rowland 01:00:01
22 Harry Chaplin 01:00:22
23 Nat Jarvis 01:02:34
24 Edward Gill 01:03:14
25 Dan Whelan 01:09:28
26 Mike Gregg 01:19:40
27 Hugo Humphreys 00:24:33

Youth - Women
1 Ruby Miller 00:56:36
2 Hannah Shenton 01:05:48

Veteran - Women
1 Joanne Merritt 01:05:14
2 Kate Wheeler 01:09:26
3 Gaynor Lea 01:12:47
4 Sara Flatt 01:14:20
5 Carol Tilley 01:26:03

Grand Veteran - Women
1 Debbie Burton 01:05:38

Sport - Women
1 Rachel Fenton 01:05:45
2 Louise Robins 01:09:48
3 Rachel Wisdom 01:12:38

Elite - Men
1 Oli Beckingsale 02:12:33
2 Ian Field 02:14:20
3 Robin Seymour 02:15:00
4 Gareth Montgomerie 02:15:12
5 Ian Wilkinson 02:16:25
6 Ross Creber 02:17:19
7 Adrian Lansley 02:18:57
8 Ian Bibby 02:21:56
9 Paul Oldham 02:22:21
10 Dave Collins 02:22:54
11 William Bjergfelt 02:23:10
12 Nigel Martin 02:23:46
13 James Fraser Moodie 02:26:26
14 Dan Booth 02:27:35
15 Jody Crawforth 02:28:13
16 Robert Friel 02:30:03
17 Simon Ernest 02:30:13
18 Nick Collins 02:30:35
19 Ryan Sherlock 02:31:59
20 Anthony O'boyle 02:32:50
21 Hamish Batchelor 02:32:51
22 Philip Morris 02:32:53
23 Christopher Minter 02:34:40
24 Andrew Cockburn 02:37:52
25 Paul Beales 02:18:49
26 Andrew Howett 02:28:45
27 Duncan Jamieson 01:09:41
28 Billy Joe Whenman 00:49:20
29 Oliver Holmes 00:49:48
30 Matt Loake 00:52:12
31 David Fletcher 00:59:45
32 Philip Cooper 00:24:46
33 Allan Clark 00:27:42

Junior - Men
1 Hamish Creber 01:32:11
2 Alex Paton 01:35:33
3 Sebastian Batchelor 01:36:01
4 Calum Chamberlain 01:36:55
5 Ben Roach 01:37:55
6 Michael Butler 01:41:09
7 Ewan Clark 01:45:33
8 Robert Hassan 01:48:13
9 Joe Peake 01:50:18
10 Dave Lawton 01:52:08
11 Charlie Beeny 01:52:51
12 Jamie Maxwell 01:56:52
13 Matthew Jones 01:58:37
14 Keith Riddick 01:59:23
15 Ross Brinson 02:02:27
16 Jonathan Pybus 02:05:31
17 Joseph Curran 02:06:35
18 Thomas Humphrys 00:53:56
19 William Verney 00:23:36

Expert - Men
1 Andrew Barlow 02:02:18
2 Chris Lane 02:04:18
3 Paul C Smith 02:04:43
4 John Whittington 02:05:55
5 Chris Andrews 02:06:24
6 Ben Thomas 02:08:08
7 Christian Aucote 02:08:14
8 Patrick Cobb 02:09:17
9 Adrian Scott 02:10:36
10 Sion O'boyle 02:11:03
11 George Budd 02:11:23
12 Peter Dawe 02:11:51
13 Eric Pettett 02:12:00
14 Daniel Goode 02:13:37
15 Gerald Tudor 02:16:13
16 David Evans 02:18:23
17 Alexander Mclean 02:19:00
18 Scott Chappell 02:19:54
19 Ritchard Mcdonald 02:20:14
20 Richard Doyle 02:20:33
21 Carl Hulston 02:20:46
22 Nick Evans 02:22:00
23 Jason Hucklesby 02:22:52
24 Warren Bates 02:25:10
25 Charlie Evans 02:25:36
26 Nick Coley 02:26:37
27 James Dalton 02:27:52
28 Joe Richards 02:36:10
29 Gareth Whittall 02:08:45
30 Stuart Ormes 01:02:31
31 Jack Richards 00:24:44
32 Steven Halsall 00:27:33
33 Martin Pearson 00:28:09

Master - Men
1 Matthew Barrett 01:35:40
2 Graham Warby 01:38:29
3 Robert Enslin 01:39:38
4 Paul Hopkins 01:40:33
5 Mark Hutt 01:41:13
6 Richard John 01:41:18
7 Daniel Lewis 01:42:04
8 Anthony Morris 01:42:11
9 Darren Alexander 01:42:28
10 Scott Rose 01:42:41
11 Adrian Lawrence 01:43:28
12 Matthew Spurgin 01:43:50
13 Mike Jackson 01:44:24
14 Andy Plewes 01:44:55
15 Paul Kneen 01:44:57
16 Jay Horton 01:45:18
17 Christopher Rathbone 01:45:46
18 Robert Rowe 01:45:50
19 Stuart King 01:45:52
20 Matt Steven 01:46:10
21 Jamie Norfolk 01:47:25
22 Gary Mccrae 01:47:28
23 Norman Gillan 01:47:34
24 Andrew Parsons 01:47:41
25 Mark Spratt 01:48:02
26 David Mckendry 01:49:17
27 Damian Baker 01:49:43
28 Paul O'brien 01:49:46
29 Peter Dennis 01:50:21
30 Joe Wilson 01:51:52
31 Mark Mcphillips 01:51:55
32 Lloyd Bettles 01:52:52
33 Martin Kitchin 01:57:28
34 Ian Newby 01:58:00
35 Martin Wright 01:59:08
36 Stefano De Tomaso 02:01:03
37 Lee Taylor 02:01:37
38 Stefan Morrocco 02:02:13
39 Keith Stocker 02:06:32
40 Myles Gerrard 01:23:11
41 James Gleave 01:43:27
42 Brian Harrison 00:55:29
43 Stephen James 01:03:52
44 Shane Lawton 00:38:31

Elite - Women
1 Jenny Copnall 01:48:26
2 Suzanne Clarke 01:51:32
3 Meggie Bichard 01:52:52
4 Nadine Spearing 01:53:16
5 Melanie Spath 01:53:57
6 Nicola Duggan 01:55:26
7 Ruth Fraser Moodie 01:56:08
8 Maddie Horton 01:59:14
9 Anja Mcdonald 01:59:49
10 Melanie Alexander 02:01:23
11 Lee Craigie 02:03:39
12 Gemma Collins 02:06:46
13 Lesley Ingram 02:09:55
14 Marie Stuart 01:55:11
15 Katrina Brown 01:03:11
16 Sophie Johnson 00:31:16

Junior - Women
1 Annie Last 01:24:27
2 Annabel Simpson 01:31:09
3 Carla Haines 01:39:25
4 Anna Buick 01:40:50
5 Morven Brown 01:44:57
6 Danielle Rider 03:39:06

Expert - Women
1 Abi Greenaway 01:28:27
2 Hilana Marais 01:32:15
3 Lucinda Insall Jones 01:38:22
4 Lettie Chambers 01:41:29
5 Sally Gabriel 01:44:55
6 Ruth Owen-Evans 01:46:24
7 Lucy Marshall 01:50:52
8 Lily Matthews 00:30:25
9 Fran Mundy 00:32:24

Master - Women
1 Ruth Mordaunt 01:29:42
2 Nina Davies 01:31:55
3 Emma Bradley 01:32:54
4 Theresa Jackson 01:39:03
5 Helen Findlay 01:40:42
6 Renell Brennan 01:41:43
7 Michelle Bergstrand 01:47:30
8 Verity Appleyard 01:47:35
9 Nicola Plewes 02:26:45
10 Fiona Walker 01:53:20

Veteran - Men
1 Iain Nimmo 01:10:02
2 Peter Buggle 01:10:06
3 Noel Clough 01:12:13
4 Mark Chadbourne 01:12:33
5 Darren Shepherd 01:12:59
6 Keith Sheridan 01:15:51
7 William Mulligan 01:16:28
8 Steve Jones 01:16:49
9 Mark Cracknell 01:16:59
10 Andy Weaving 01:17:15
11 Tim Moorhouse 01:17:29
12 Grant Steele 01:18:00
13 Ross Porter 01:18:10
14 Keith Sperry 01:19:30
15 Steve Moors 01:19:39
16 Steven Brennan 01:20:01
17 Robin Smith 01:20:06
18 Roland Tilley 01:20:24
19 Graham Clark 01:20:35
20 Bruce Rollinson 01:21:49
21 Michael Radburn 01:23:01
22 Brian Garriock 01:23:02
23 Mike Murray 01:24:46
24 Duncan Stuart 01:25:29
25 Joseph Heywood 01:25:37
26 Ashley Roles 01:25:48
27 Craig Dolwin 01:25:49
28 Dean Morgan 01:29:31
29 Jim Shenton 01:29:37
30 Jon Runciman 01:29:58
31 Dean Smith 01:30:50
32 Robert Allen 01:31:18
33 Gary Strickland 01:32:27
34 Andrew Hilton 01:34:30
35 David Flint 01:00:15

Grand Veteran - Men
1 Ian Wright 01:17:16
2 Peter Harris 01:20:53
3 Billy Matthews 01:21:18
4 John Galway 01:27:01
5 Kevin Townsend 01:31:22
6 Garrett Hill 01:31:42
7 Steve Whitehouse 01:37:36
8 Philip Buick 01:43:04
9 Trevor Patey 01:49:51
10 David Mclean 01:53:08
11 Lynn Lines 00:27:52

Super Veteran - Men
1 Victor Barnett 00:55:22
2 Sandy Wallace 00:57:55
3 John Lloyd 00:57:56
4 Anton Florek 01:23:45

Sport - Men
1 Dave Henderson 01:15:10
2 Alex Kinvig 01:15:29
3 John Richardson 01:15:35
4 Giles Drake 01:16:48
5 Michael Coward 01:16:50
6 Niall Frost 01:18:00
7 Paul Wilkinson 01:18:15
8 Christopher Bell 01:18:19
9 Peter Goode 01:19:11
10 Simon Allard 01:20:04
11 Chris Pedder 01:20:27
12 Philip Lenney 01:21:06
13 James Hampshire 01:23:43
14 Simon White 01:24:21
15 Gareth Mayes 01:25:17
16 Mark Baines 01:25:28
17 Stuart Gilfillan 01:25:43
18 James Hynam 01:26:35
19 Lee Mallen 01:26:46
20 Chris White 01:27:25
21 Alastair Millar 01:28:51
22 Lee Eaton 01:29:32
23 Broadie Garcias 01:30:37
24 Samuel Whittlesea 01:35:21
25 Adam Hadley 01:36:17
26 Norbert Bajorek 01:42:37
27 Trevor Hulton 01:49:36
28 Craig Ingram 01:52:51
29 Jonathan Chisholm 01:17:40

Open - Men
1 Serge Hunt 01:18:27
2 Martin Lenney 01:28:26
3 David Padfield 01:28:27
4 Andrew Nixon 01:30:51
5 Mark O'connell 01:31:17
6 James Tate 01:38:03
7 Ian Mcparland 01:38:21
8 Jonathan Smith 01:38:24
9 Paul Eveleigh 01:50:42
10 Chris Dixon 01:51:02
11 Darren Carter 01:58:19