Once again, Will Bevan left the door open for other riders from Ross- Cycling Club, choosing to rest for this weekend's events and taking on the role of timekeeper. With rain 30 minutes prior to the start the ground had just about dried out when a most fierce wind blew up. The tail wind saw the riders making nowhere near 100% effort getting to the turn in under 10 minutes which was well over 30mph average.

The ride home was a totally different story, with the race secretary remembering the struggle back being harder only once before. An in form Paul Fallon topped the time sheets only losing 20 seconds to his best time this year doing a time of 26:23.

Graham Carter seems to improve every week to take second spot and Max Suff third gaining large amounts of time on the final uphill climb finishing in 27:52.

Mark Lavington came close to winning the rider of the night award for his improvement in time with 28:14, but in the end it went to Steve Millard in 28:20 for such a good performance first time out this year.

Paul Stephens 28:34 was chased down by another of the big improvers Sam Walker 29:01. James Wilson just beat Matt Fallon 29:51 and 30:02 with Nigel Skyrme bringing up the tail end of the gents in 31:27.

Last on the evening was Mary Middleton who normally has a smile regardless, failed to smile this time declaring it the toughest event she'd ever done.

Will Bevan raced Saturday doing a Ludlow 10 mile race where he finished in second spot in a time of 21:17, then back on his bike the next day down in Usk for a 25 mile event.

This time he ended up third doing a time of 52:29. Julie Suff also rode the event, looking very pleased with herself as she managed to knock almost four minutes off her previous time on the course in 1:12:34. This week it's back to the popular Walford course.