J.W. (Bill) Boniface Trophy
The Annual BOXING DAY ENDURO
SEEC Hare & Hounds Champs Round 4
WITLEY’S PREMIER EVENT OF THE YEAR
This article has been updated on 17/12/2009
Date & time: Sunday 27th December: 11.00am start.
Venue: Weaver’s Down, Liss, Hampshire.
Contacts:
- Clerk of the Course: Shaun Smith Tel: 07786 446997
- Secretary of the Meeting: Manuel Bernardez Home: 01372 210847 Mobile: 07941477916 Email:
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- Chief Marshall: Simon Beken Tel: 07861652742 (marshalling inquiries only)
Entry forms: TSM, by snailmail: Here, Online Entry Form pay by cheque or Paypal: Here
Classes: Championship, Expert, Over40, Clubman, Sportsman, Youth, Sidecar and Quad.
Riders List: Online Riders List updated daily.
This year we will be using electronic timing backup by good old fashioned punch cards, it is important that you present the transponder correctly to the reader, press the wristband gently to the reader until you see the indicator light change, no mad swiping please.
The timing equipment will have the extra benefit that you will get individual lap times and we can see if any course cutting has taken place. Be warned an isolated lap considerably faster than the rest will get you disqualified. Thanks to the Sidcup & District MCC for the loan of their wristbands.
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Guildford Cycle Challenge
 Charlotteville Cycling Club run the Guildford Cycle Challenge each September, and for the third year Witley were invited to supply travelling marshals. The event, which invites support for the CHASE Children's Hospice, consists of 3 alternative rides: a 30-mile fun ride for all the family, a 65-miler for more serious cyclists, and an 85-mile marathon including Surrey’s six biggest hills for the true enthusiasts (or lunatics, depending on your point of view).
Bernard Jay, Laurie Richards and Dave Kavanagh respectively took hold of these routes, which share a fair degree of common ground, touring on multiple laps to offer assistance where needed. However, as with our Long Distance Trial, the comparison with last year – when the previous week's torrential rain had left the Surrey lanes looking like a moonscape, and causing countless punctures and some minor spills – was very favourable, with fine, dry weather and easy going for all. Including the marshals!
 There were some complications with another cycle race taking place on some of ‘our’ roads, a situation which should not have arisen, but which in the end caused no major upset. An accident at Holmbury Hill left one rider with an arm injury following a collision with a large 4x4 on a blind downhill bend – not often you see 3 police cars and 2 ambulances in a single track lane at one time! And then there were the usual stragglers in pubs! But all in all an enjoyable day out and a good encouragement for another Club with which Witley has a long standing connection. Laurie Richards
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The 2009 Witley Long Distance Trial took place on October 4th, a day which – happily – had little in common with last year’s rain-sodden adventure.
The event was a great success, even though it had been pulled together at much shorter notice than usual. In total, 110 riders set off on a chilly but sunny day – many of them fuelled by John and Pat’s enormous Len Hutty special rolls! All but one rider made it back under their own steam and Barry Brockman was pleased to find that only one rescue mission was necessary – even though it was at pretty much the furthest point on the course!
While they were out, unsuspecting of what was to come, Colin and his crew were constructing a monster special test which generated a queue nearly out of the field when all the riders came back in. The winner of the special test was John Gilbody, he flew down the field and round the concentric circle and back to the start in only 1:53.8!
Michelle Cutler
The life of an observer was also happier than it would have been in 2008, and though I had reluctantly decided to give riding the event a miss this year, it was little hardship to ride through Hampshire’s picturesque countryside to Froxfield near Petersfield, where Andy Hewett and I manned one of the ‘dead-engine’ sections. Unfortunately the section of byway we were using for this had been resurfaced the previous week, making it impossible to set up much of a challenge to the riders – though they didn’t seem to mind. Few failed to achieve a clean, though in fact the whole course was dry enough to ensure very low marks lost throughout.
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