David and Diana are ride on in double win

WITH the cycling Time Trial season now in full swing, there was a great result for the Midlands-based Team Enable-mi Racing-townsend Vehicle Hire in the Coventry Cycling Club Diana Cooke Memorial 10-mile open time trial.

The race, held on the K11/10T course on the A45 between Rugby and Ryton, took place in near perfect conditions.

The team’s new, ‘fast man’ signing, David Mead, pictured, won the open category in a time of 19 minutes and 47 seconds. David was the only rider to go sub-20 minutes.

Team-mate, Diana Egertonwarburton won the female category in a time of 22 minutes and 58 seconds. Diana is the current Israeli TT champion and raced proudly wearing her national champion skinsuit.

Team-mate Thomas Bradley had a superb ride in his first ever open time trial to finish in second place in the road bike category, clocking a time of 23 minutes and 5 seconds.

In the same event, Greg Ashley finished in 25th place in a time of 23 minutes and 37 seconds and Zoe Shepherd started the race but failed to finish after stopping on the course to assist another rider who had crashed. The team’s Time Trial success continued midweek in the Hinckley Cycle Racing Club, 10-mile event on the K41/10 course at Wolvey Heath. On a very pleasant, warm evening, David Mead once again took the honours in a time of 20 minutes and 18 seconds. Team-mate Simon Law, riding his first race of the season, finished third on the night in a time a 21 minutes 54 seconds. Oliver Seale, riding a standard road bike, was fourth overall in a time of 22 minutes and 1 second.

About a dozen of the team’s riders will be heading to Dumfries and Galloway next weekend to race ‘The Gralloch’, the UK round of the official UCI Gravel World series of races. The 111km route features almost 1800m of climbing and will give the chance for age group riders to qualify for the Gravel World Championships to be held in Belgium later this year.