National Hill Climb Championship 2006
2007-03-02 04:29 PM | Posted by Tejvan Pettinger | Permanent Link | hillclimbs
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This years national hill climb championship was held on Peak Hill in Sidmouth, Devon. It was well organised by Sidmouth CC. It is particularly good to be able to race on closed roads.
Peak Hill from 1/3 of the way up. At this point the gradient is quite gentel.
The course starts on the sea front and the first 2 minutes of racing is on quite a shallow gradient. I was relatively slow on this part the split times are here: national hill climb results
After this section the hill starts to get steeper with the gradient reaching 20% near the end. All the way along the route there was a good sized crowd with people cheering your name. Going slow at the beginning meant I had more at the end and so finished quite strongly. My time was 5.18.2 this was very temporarily a new course record. But 6 other people went faster, leaving me 7th.
The clear winner was James Dobbin of Arctic Shorter RT with a time of 4.44. A really tremendous ride.
Top 10
1 James Dobbin Arctic Shorter Rochford RT 4:44.0
2 David Clarke Nippo KFS 5:07.3
3 Jonathan Dayus Arctic Shorter Rochford RT 5:07.7
4 Jim Henderson Southport CC 5:10.7
5 Daniel Shand West Pennine RC 5:12.3
6 Matt Clinton mikevaughan.co.uk 5:14.8
7 Richard Pettinger Sri Chinmoy CT 5:18.2
8 Bill Bell Gemini BC 5:19.8
9 Ian Stott Blackburn & Dist CTC 5:24.2
10 Mark Lovatt Planet X RT 5:27.4
1st Team - Arctic Shorter Rochford
1st Lady - Ann Bowditch - Science in sport
1st Junior - Luke Rowe - Glendene CC-Bike Trax
James Dobbin at the start. James went on to smash the course record and win the title with a time of 4.44
Jim Henderson on the lower slopes. Jim is 5 times national champion. This year he was squeezed back to 4th place. This was one of the few photos of riders that didn't blur. (need new camera)
Andy Sherwood before the start. This was his first national hill climb and was 67th fastest.- 6.38
Me at the start. As you can see I'm built for hill climbs, I'm not exactly a pie eater. :)
Photos taken by me or Andy Sherwood
