Jim's Training Event 7

 

 

Training Event Seven – Sproatley, 16th February, 2008

Very cold day but sunny with little wind, and not as many training as I thought would turn up, perhaps the event on the V718 on the Sunday morning affected the numbers.

Three groups today

Group One:  Paul Hayward, Craig Medcalf, Joe Gibbins, Les Phillips, Rob Busby, Simon Mason, Stuart Wadsworth, Tom Gibbins, Paul Campbell (late), Dave Millson (late)

Group Two:  Phil Eden, John Brearley, Tony Washbrook (late)

Group Three: Steve Macklin, Dave Hudson, Mark Ollerenshaw, Ryan MacLachlan, Nathan Wilson, Paul Noton.

On the first lap Phil Eden and John Brearley caught and passed all of group one, and this a chat lap. The scratch group , as usual, honoured the principle of getting warmed up together and took a minute longer than the time they took for subsequent laps. But they warmed up on lap two and lost Paul Noton as a consequence. I guess he must get involved too early because I let him go in with Phil and John but he was too strong for them and went off on his own – and stayed away losing only ten to fifteen seconds a lap to the scratch group.

The scratch group were very consistent with their lap times caught everyone except Paul Noton with a lap to go. Surprise was to See Ryan distance from this group on the penultimate lap, apparently he’d done a long hard stretch in the morning and paid the price for it. Everyone had a good workout, especially Phil who’s shown an awful lot of improvement this year.

Next week is your last chance this year – the Sproatley circuit is a good one to train on.

Lap Times

	Group One	Group Two	Group Three	Paul Noton
Lap One	8.21	7.13	7.36
Lap Two	7.34	7.24	6.27
Lap Three	7.41	7.19	6.44
Lap Four	7.43	7.28	6.48	7.05
Lap Five	7.34	7.50	6.45	6.57
Lap Six	7.44	7.12	6.44	6.58
Lap Seven	7.38	7.14	6.36	6.52
Lap Eight	-	-	6.34	6.51