On a Hot Saturday 60 riders set out on this 7mile circuit with a steep climb near the finish. No real moves got clear as the bunch slowly shed riders each lap. It all came down to the last climb with Claire Steels taking the last corner after the hill with a small lead but the power of Abigail Dentus and Charmaine Porter proved to much as Abigail took the victory. The Team event was won by Cycle Team on Form taking 365 points with
Fusion RT Veloperformance 251 points 2nd.

1. Abigail Dentus Ellmore Digital Composite
2. Charmaine Porter Cycle Team on Form
3. Claire Steels Fusion RT Veloperformance
4. Jessica Finney Cycle Team on Form
5. Anneleen Bosma Rapha Cycling Club
6. Elena Spanou Cycle Team on Form
7. Georgina Panchard Bianchi Dama
8. Gemma Melton Fusion RT Veloperformance
9. Hannah Larbalestier Boompods EDCO NRG
10. Alice Speake Cycle Team on Form
11. Emma Wood Ellmore Digital Composite
12. Gabriella Nordin TW1 Racing
13. Alderney Baker Team Empella Cyclo Cross.Com
14. Ruth Summerford Fusion RT Veloperformance
15. Rachel Jary Boompods EDCO NRG

Team Points
1 Cycle Team on Form 365 points
2 Fusion RT Veloperformance 251 points
3 Boompods EDCO NRG 134 points
4 Sigma Sports x Theo 132 points
5 TW1 Racing 91 points
6 Rapha Cycling Club 90 points
7 Les Filles Racing Team 84 points
8 Bianchi Dama 70 points
9 Team Empella Cyclo Cross 64 points
10 Twickenham CC 36 points
11 Norwood Paragon 29 points
12 CC London 25 points
13 Team IOM Ladies 24 points
14 Dulwich Paragon 20 points
15 Velo Schils Interbike 9 points

Top 15 Results for the Will Houghton Road Race 2018

Once again as last year the race was set at a fast pace from start to finish with small breaks going clear but quickly brought back. On the last lap James Hill broke free and was soon joined by a few riders .But the fast moving bunch soon had them back but no sooner had they been caught another small move went clear. Once again James Hill was in the move and the group just mange to stay clear to the finish and with a broken rear mech James out sprinted Eliot Ward and Karl Alexander to take home the Will Houghton Trophy and the £150 Holm Engineering 1^st Prize.

Full result to follow.

Thank you all once again for your support for this event and all money raised which is over £1000 will be going to the Will Houghton Foundation.

Please don’t forget to enter the Victor Berlemont Trophy Road Race on the 26/08/18 this year as this is a superb run event by Patrick Kavanagh and always attracts a quality field.

Peter Jones has ridden 19 races up to 7th June for the 2018 season. Peter’s results in age category are as follows :

Percy Stallard National road race series :

One 2nd place and one 4th place and overall 3rd in the series.

Over 65 National road race series :

One win,two 3rds and one 4th and overall in the series 2nd.

Touchim National road race series:

One 3rd and one 4th and overall in the series 3rd.

Milton Keynes Bowl regional criterium championships :

Five wins and overall 1st in the series.

Ciclos uno Hog Hill series :

Three 2nds and overall in the series 2nd.

Ford Dunton series:

One win one second and overall in the series 2nd.

Peter Jones is also targeting the British cycling national crit championships on 21st July. Peter is hoping to improve on the bronze medal he won last year.

2017 National Criterium Championships

1st Geoff Wiles

2nd Jeff Hatherway

3rd Peter Jones

Oakley Woman’s Team Series 2017

Winner Mathilde Pauls

On this fast undulating circuit two riders Becky Hoare, Army Racing Team and Charlotte Burford, Sigma Sport, broke clear early on and established a lead of one and a half minutes.  With two laps to go on the fast circuit, the bunch closed the gap to only 30 seconds.  On the bell lap the pair were caught and the peloton was back together.

The finish proved to be a bunch sprint, not your typical bunch sprint due to the 500 metre climb, a turn at the top and a flat 200 metre sprint to the finish.  The first rider to take the corner at the top of the hill was the winner Mathilde Pauls, Sigma Sport. A group of six riders battled it out for the podium place.  A special mention to Laura Bowler who was forth over all and first junior. Both the primes, went to the breakaway pair.

I would like to thank our main Sponsor Mint Velvet once again for their support and for the prize fund.

Junior Winner Lorna Bowler

Will Houghton Trophy Road Race 2017

Winner Ollie Taylor with the Will Houghton Trophy

 This event has always proved to be a fast race with plenty of action, this year proved no different on this undulating seven lap circuit totalling fifty miles.  The bunch seemed to stay together for the first two laps, but individual riders kept attacking, making no major break in the first four laps. With four laps remaining the prime lap was won by Junior Michael Parry, Verulam.

The following lap we saw three riders breaking clear with 25 seconds, but once again it was brought back with the help of Team Vision Innovative squad.  On the final lap Junior Alex Cross, Vision Innovative, broke clear with the slender advantage of 10 seconds.  He maintained that with a kilometre to go, but was brought back by the fast bunch building in pace for the finish.

Once again like the ladies race it was down to a bunch finish.  With the 500 metre climb, we saw Josh Avery, Team Vision Innovative, round the corner first at the top of the climb.  Ollie Taylor from Flamme Rouge, powered past him with 150 metres to go to take the Will Houghton Trophy. Josh managed to hold on to his second place with 3rd, 4th & 5th was hotley contested with inches between them.

A special mention to Jamie Lloyd, Team Corely who took the first junior prize and fourth overall, a superb result for this young athlete.

Junior Winner Jamie Lloyd

Josh Avery 2nd Place

I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who made donations to the Will Houghton Foundation, especially those riders like the winner Ollie Taylor who donated all of his first place winnings to the Foundation.  I am totally overwhelmed by the generosity of the cycling community.  Also a thank you to all my family, friends, the Houghton Family and helpers who make this race such a special event.

A big thank you to the team at Holm Engineering who have sponsored this race for thirteen years.  Also thank you for the manufacture of the Will Houghton Trophy and Liam Summerfield who helped to design it.

NEG……where would be without the wonderful motorbike riders, they make our races so face which is so important to me and all the other organisers of road races.  A special thank you to Patrick Kavanagh who in my option is the best Commissaire in the country!

This event will always be an emotional event for all who knew and loved Will, riders who rode and raced with him and the cycling community.  Our total aim is make sure that his name and memory lives on forever.  For more information or to make a donation to the Will Houghton Foundation please see the following link.  www.willhoughtonfoundation.org

The Men’s Oakley Road Race is now re named the Will Houghton Road Race, in memory of an extremely talented rider and exceptional young man who tragically lost his life while training on his bike in January last year.  Will rode for Hillingdon CC and had a very successful career.  There will be a presentation at the race with the newly named trophy.  For all race information please download the documents below.

Will Houghtonot Trophy

Once again please contact Scott holmes regaring help and marshals 01844 237933

Will Houghton RR (Oakley RR) Program 2017

Race Map

Start to Finish Map

Mens res 2017

Mens start sheet 2017

Ladies Start Sheet 2017

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