National 100 Mile Championship

Sunday 1^st September was our VTTA 100 mile championship run in conjunction with the Tyneside Vagabonds event on the M100 course. We had a small, but select field, who bravely entered the event on one of the more challenging 100 mile courses in the country.  Several riders commented on the struggle of the southbound leg!

In the female event, congratulations go to the ever consistent Joana Cebrat for another championship winning ride. Kath Smith continued her amazing season with a silver medal to add to her championship winning rides in both the 12 and 24 hour. Angela Hannon-Flaherty took a well-deserved bronze medal. The podium is pictured above. 

The men’s result was slightly delayed when it was discovered there had been a one digit mistake in the whatsapp transmission of a rider’s time that resulted in him being allocated the gold medal. Thanks to Mick Flaherty for his honesty in pointing this out before the presentation! We hope you quickly recover, Mick, from your fall in the event.

The gold medal and champion’s jersey was in fact won by Chris Smart with a tremendous actual time of 3:43:39 (3:42:01 on AAT), the one VTTA rider under 4 hours. Chris only beat David Nichol by just over a minute on AAT. David, at age 72, rode an impressive 4:33:25 which gave him an AAT of 3:43:21 despite dropping his chain (twice) and stopping to pick up a dropped bottle. The bronze medal went to Philip Kennell with 4:07:50 giving him an AAT of 3:50:48.

There was an extremely tight result for the winning Group Team. North Group (David Nichol, Philip Kennell, and Stephen Boxall) took the team medals but by a margin of only 18 seconds over Scotland (Chris Smart, Vincent Pickering and Sean Quinn). North Groups’ AAT was 11:35:18 just beating Scotland’s 11:35:36.

Our thanks to Nick Wild, and Sharon Dyson for their support to our championship this year and to all their team of timekeepers, marshals and helpers.

VTTA 100 Mile Championship Result

DNS (A): Charlotte Dadd (East Midlands), DNS: James Rees (Manchester & NW), DNF: Phil Wright (North), James Wood (East Anglian), Angus Wilson (Scotland)