Eagle Road Club

Dengie Marshes Road Race

Phil Hersey did the dengie Marshes 'road' race which was on muddy farm tracks around Southminster. Phil thought "It was more like a cyclocross race".

You can see some pictures of the event if you follow this link.

ECCA 10

We had four riders in the ECCA 10 on the E2 last Saturday.  Phil Hersey continues his fine early form, and Chris Baldwin and Ben Preston picked up a couple of handicap prizes, 2nd and 4th respectively. As a team we also performed with credit picking up 3rd place. Well done.

SERRL Biddenden

Ben Preston takes part in the SERRL road race this Sunday 30th March. A 50 mile race for 3rd and 4th category riders.

9-30 start Bethersden, Ashford

Dengie Marshes RR

This Sunday the 30th March we have two riders entered in the Dengie Marshes road race - a 76 mile race for Elite, 123 category riders.  Phil Hersey and Chris Baldwin are both down as reserves but should get a ride.

9:30 start at Burnham on Crouch.

ECCA 10

Tha Eagle have four riders taking part in the ECCA event on Saturday the 29th MArch.  Course is the E2. Start times as follows:

• Damian - 14.10
• Chris - 14.13
• Phil - 14.15 and
• Ben 14.24

Bill Temme Memorial RR

At Dunton In the Vets race we had Dave Farrow and Chris Baldwin taking part. Chris had another solid finish (21st), but Dave Farrow is showing some early signs of form with a 4th place.

CC Weymouth 10

Chris Baldwin turned in a plus 25mph ride in this event to record a time of 23:41 which earned him 3rd place.

Randonee

The Hot X bun Randonee is our next club event to be held on Easter Monday 24^th March 2008. We will ride the usual route roughly 65 miles. The start will leave the Eagle club house at 9am VERY SHARP, with a mid morning stop near New Market for buns, tea and coffee. Then we will continue on to Nikki and Glenn’s at Shudy Camps for lunch then head back to the club house for tea and biscuits.

Hilly 25 result

We had a very cold, wet and windy start for the first Eagle RC club event of 2008. So much so, that with the road between Elsenham and Thaxted flooded, a shortened course had to be found.  We ended up using two circuits of the smaller route for a test of some 22 miles.

Phil Hersey won the event in a time of 56:14.  But he had some close competition will both Chris BAldwin and Garth Evans geting within a minute of our club champion.

Congratulations to all the riders for braving the elements and a special thank you to all the marshals for making the event happen.

DNS - Ian Eastwood, Dave Wright, Ben Preston, and Damien Foy. But on a lighter note Damien did "text in" with his apologies and said that "Ben was in bed too."

Full Rusult

ECCA 10 on the E91/10

On the 15^th March, the Saturday before the hilly 25, we had four Eagles in the ECCA 10 on the E91. Congratulations to all four placing in the top 13 out of 43 riders and notably to Phil picking up some hardware for overall shared 3^rd place.