Ian Archibald

I'm meeting my son John at the Houston roundabout at noon on Sunday for 2 hours. He's wanting 4 hours at 240 watts. Be tempo for me even wheel sucking. Top of zone 2 today with the Renfrew Bunch. Very nice pace. Warm all the way despite the rain. Anyhow if anyone wants a good blast tomorrow probably best to PM me. Don't want to take over this thread.

Enjoyable night! 3 lap sprint pretty much passed me by. Points was in a large breakaway group, managed to win one of the sprints and lap maybe half the field.  This was apparently good enough for 4th, i can only assume someone who scored some points had lost a lap so on negative points because 5 points isnt usually enough these days with double for the final sprint. Scratch, felt pretty good was in a break midway through with Richard McGhee (always a good wheel to get on!) it didnt come to much but the group that caught us were pretty tired from the chase so when it went down to the sprint managed to win. Last was a tempo / course de prime. Waited until late on then got 3 laps then died a thousand deaths on the final one and got caught but the 3 was enough for 2nd.

10am Ferry. Easy riding in preparation for the Glen Finnart segment. 2.3km at 6%. Not taking up a full can of soup this year. Need to find a minute for the KoM. Hmm...

Would like to however will probably give it a miss - couple of 5th places or better would get me my 2nd cat and that would then mean less (and much harder!) road race opportunities for next year.

Paul, Ian A and me in the first group. Through the wonders of age handicapping we also had Jim Cusick as well as the women Lynsey Curran and Jesse who are all regular Renfrew bunch and winter Saturday morning riders. Ian McT, Marc and Robbie were in the later groups.
We quickly had a very well organised bunch of eight or nine which held together until a touch of wheels half way on the return and a rider went down. We lost momentum and within a few minutes were swallowed up by a big bunch including Marc and Ian who must have worked super hard to put over 4 minutes into us.
I just held on over mt Stuart and just sat in for the habble to finish. Kudos to Paul as first v50 but all jwcc did well in big bunch sprint. Robbie punctured.
APR is good format, Very hard racing with no let up, my geek meter says average 232 watts which explains why I am writing this while lying horizontal on sofa.

Rothesay weekend with quite few wheelers going over so i thought segment of the week over there.
 
Kerrycroy to Mt Stuart gatehouse
 
https://www.strava.com/segments/1333402
Will anyone be daft enough to launch a solo attack on the first climb of the course so they can win the segment of the week bragging rights?
 
 
 

We need some of you puncheurs to challenge us on the Hill Race Champs. You Sewing Bee guys were probably going faster up the Bowfield climb last night than us. Definitely more grimacing going on. Us TT'ers are a happy bunch you know.

We need some of you puncheurs to challenge us on the Hill Race Champs. You Sewing Bee guys were probably going faster up the Bowfield climb last night than us. Definitely more grimacing going on. Us TT'ers are a happy bunch you know.

Club Hill TT on at 6 30 at Bowfield. Pass by and have a shot... almost on the way.

Well done to Marc and to Gerard who smashed a certain Archibald on the course today.. when telling the story leave out what Archibald it was you beat...makes it sound a hole lot better 🤣🤣🤣

Planning to do everything

Echoing Martin's comments above, thanks to all who helped out today. It promised to be wet but we got away with it
 
Congratulations to Ian Archibald, the 2017 JWCC Club 25m Time Trial Champion
 
For some reason I am unable to copy / paste onto the forum but I'll find a way and post up the full results
 
That's the Open events done for the season. We do pretty well at putting these on
 
Gang Forward!

Nah. I wouldn't call you obtuse Charlie (annoyingly insensitive and slow to understand - that's me). I'll stick with abstruse.

David
We meet @ traffic lights at entrance to cycle track on west side of Morrisons supermarket johnstone. Iain Archibald has the map grid reference if required

Charlie P says Sewing Bee at Morrisons 6 20pm. Cmon Charlie P; I'm starting to learn all the lingo and the call signs (tell me you do play the saxophone), but it would be nice to newer members to be less abstruse. Not coming anyhow. Working on my ftp on my 100"

Richard Montague says he's finished up for the season. So I've entered. Marc Kelly and Alan Mcbride? Too flat for wee Robbie.

Doh, just remembered I entered the Georgetown cup next SaturDAy, memory is failing me !! Maybe I meant the following weekend.

Posting on Strava works for me. That's how I heard about the club shop being open. More generally the weekend runs seem so bespoke that casual riders like me are put off. Early starts, funny meeting points, etc.  Renfrew Bunch might be boring but I know where they meet and at what time. Quite fancy a Sunday cycle this week too...

I should really dock Marc and Paul a point for the shameless use of a couple of domestiques from Lomond Roads to chase back the solo break
 
Mctavish never mind that put me back on the ladder with my point

I will join u but will probably be detached fairly swiftly so saying hello now

Weather dependent and if I can contain my surges

I am fed up posting runs which nobody wants to do so could somebody else do it

I can come down to help. 

I can come down to help. 

Robbie out sprinted me at the top of the Clune. Do we get double points for sprinting at the top?