Critical Thrash Results

OK so Friday 6pm was obviously not the best time for everyone. I was hoping for about ten people to enter but printed over twenty spoke cards just in case. Ten people showed up and eight entered, providing £16 prize money and leaving sixteen spoke cards unclaimed!

Igor, Anthony, Rob, Alex

Chris & Dave

Since everyone arrived at the finish line after the time limit (Ade got there only seconds later), everyone was disqualified, so I kept all the prize money and spent it on beer the time limit was discarded.

Adrian (winner)

Rob & Fritz (3rd & 2nd)

The Checkpoints

The route was of a medium length – some people had cycle computers and reported doing about eleven miles. Due to the position of the checkpoints in relation to the start and the finish, it is difficult to judge which checkpoint to go to first in order to take the shortest route, but I probably would have gone to Woodview Drive first. Here are the checkpoints on Google:

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Obviously Google’s default route isn’t the shortest, because it fails to use the smaller roads. Google says 12.6 miles – I reckon it’s possible to knock at least two miles off that if you take more direct routes between each checkpoint.

Results

Results & Prizes & Points in the Alleycat League:

1. Ade of Sprocket – £8 – 50pts
2. Fritz of Bearwood & Dead Offenders £6 – 30pts
3. Rob of Tilling – £2 – 20pts

Can’t remember the order of the rest of the entrants, so in no particular order:

Chris C of Wolves
Dave of Knowle
Alex ex-Sustrans
Ben of Sutton Coldfield
Rob T

Also in appearance:

Igor
Anthony

Next race will be on a Saturday at about 1pm, free entry and it will be for points in the league rather than a proper prize. Hopefully it will end with some easy listening music that might suit more people’s tastes than blastbeat hardcore…. see yous next time.