We are super pleased and proud to spotlight the fantastic achievements of some Darlington CC members in 2022
First up is Iain Hodgson, who represented GB in August at the 2022 Europe Triathlon Championships Munich | 30-34 Male AG Sprint.
I asked him to summarise how it went, read below.
๐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐จ๐ฉ๐ต ๐โ๐ฅ ๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฑ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฅ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ถ๐ญ๐ต ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ถ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฏ ๐๐จ๐ฆ ๐จ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฑ ๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ด ๐ช๐ฏ ๐๐ถ๐ฏ๐ช๐ค๐ฉ; ๐ ๐ง๐ช๐ฏ๐ช๐ด๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฅ 16๐ต๐ฉ ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ 2๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ง๐ข๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ด๐ต ๐๐ณ๐ช๐ต. 2๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ, ๐ ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ถ๐ฑ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ฑ๐ข๐ค๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐ข๐จ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ซ๐ถ๐ด๐ต ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ณ 26๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฉ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ 22๐ฌ๐ฎ ๐ณ๐ช๐ฅ๐ฆ - ๐ฏ๐ช๐ค๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ด๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฅ๐บ ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ต ๐ค๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ๐ฏโ๐ต ๐จ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ข ๐ฃ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฌ๐ข๐ธ๐ข๐บ, ๐ฏ๐ฐ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ต๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ณ๐ฅ ๐ ๐ต๐ณ๐ช๐ฆ๐ฅ (๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ ๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ต ๐ค๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ด๐ฆ). ๐๐ต ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ถ๐ฏ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐จ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ญ๐ญ ๐ข๐ธ๐ข๐บ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ต๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ญ๐ข๐ฅ๐ด ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐ต๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ด ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ.
๐๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐บ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ฏ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ด๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ.
Thatโs one heck of an achievement, along with the honour of representing GB.
Next up we have Tony McCullagh and in his own words.
๐ ๐ฃ๐ช๐ต ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ข ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ฎ๐บ ๐๐ช๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ณ 24 2022 ๐ณ๐ข๐ค๐ฆ
2022 ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ 24๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐
๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ข ๐ฃ๐ณ๐ถ๐ต๐ข๐ญ ๐ณ๐ข๐ค๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฃ๐ฆ.
๐๐ข๐ด๐ต ๐บ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ ๐ ๐ง๐ช๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐บ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ณ๐ข๐ป๐บ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ง 24๐ฉ๐ณ ๐ณ๐ข๐ค๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ข๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ 2021 ๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ณ24, ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ง๐ช๐ณ๐ด๐ต ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ 24๐ฉ๐ณ ๐ฎ๐ต๐ฃ ๐ณ๐ข๐ค๐ฆ, ๐๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ค๐ช๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ซ๐ถ๐ฎ๐ฑ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฑ ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ณ๐ช๐ฅ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ต ๐ด๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฐ ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ฎ๐บ ๐๐ข๐ต๐ฃ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ. ๐๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ณ๐ข๐ค๐ฆ, ๐ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ค๐ช๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ต ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ง๐ช๐ณ๐ด๐ต ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ญ๐บ ๐ข๐ต๐ต๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ต ๐ข๐ต ๐ด๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฐ 24๐ฉ๐ณ ๐ณ๐ข๐ค๐ช๐ฏ๐จ. ๐๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐จ๐ฉ๐ต ๐ญ๐ข๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ต๐ช๐ญ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐น๐ต ๐ฅ๐ข๐บ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ ๐ด๐ต๐ข๐ณ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ 2022 ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต.
๐๐ฐ๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ฏ 2022, ๐ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฅ๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต ๐ณ๐ถ๐ฏ ๐ถ๐ฑ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ข๐ค๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ต ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐จ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐จ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ฎ๐บ๐ด๐ฆ๐ญ๐ง ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต ๐ด๐ฉ๐ข๐ฑ๐ฆ ๐ ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ด๐ด๐ช๐ฃ๐ญ๐บ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ.
๐๐ฆ๐ต๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฐ๐ง๐ง ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐บ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ'๐ด ๐ณ๐ข๐ค๐ฆ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ช๐ณ๐ด๐ต ๐ง๐ฆ๐ธ ๐ญ๐ข๐ฑ๐ด ๐ ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ง๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐จ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฑ๐ข๐ค๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฎ๐บ๐ด๐ฆ๐ญ๐ง ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ด๐ช๐ญ๐บ๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฑ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฑ๐ข๐ค๐ฆ ๐ถ๐ฑ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ด๐ต ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ข๐ค๐ฆ. ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ข ๐ง๐ฆ๐ธ ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ด ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ด ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐จ๐ข๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ง๐ง. ๐๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ข๐ด๐ต ๐บ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ ๐ ๐ด๐ต๐ข๐ณ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ถ๐จ๐จ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ด๐ต๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ข๐ค๐ฉ ๐ค๐ณ๐ข๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ฆ๐ข๐ต ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ฅ๐ณ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฌ ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ถ๐จ๐ฉ, ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ช๐ค๐ฉ ๐ ๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ธ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ค๐ข๐ถ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ด๐ด๐ถ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ข๐ค๐ฆ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ฐ๐ฏ.
๐๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฐ๐ฑ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ด๐ต๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ข๐ค๐ฉ ๐ค๐ณ๐ข๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ข๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ณ๐ช๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฆ, ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ข๐ค๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ด๐ต๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ 6 ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ด. ๐ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐จ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ง๐ฆ๐ธ ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ด ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ต ๐ค๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ๐ฏ'๐ต ๐จ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ข๐ฏ๐บ ๐ด๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฑ. ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ฃ๐ข๐ค๐ฌ ๐ถ๐ฑ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐บ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ด๐ต๐ข๐ณ๐ต ๐ณ๐ข๐ค๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ข๐จ๐ข๐ช๐ฏ ๐ข๐ต 3๐ข๐ฎ. ๐๐ฆ๐ต๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฐ๐ง๐ง ๐ ๐ง๐ฆ๐ญ๐ต๐จ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ต ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ธ๐ข๐ณ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ข๐ค๐ฆ, ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ต๐ช๐ญ ๐ข ๐ญ๐ข๐ฑ ๐ญ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ, ๐ง๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ด๐ช๐ค๐ฌ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ ๐ญ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐จ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ฐ๐ง๐ง๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ด๐ฉ, ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฅ๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐จ๐ต๐ฉ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฑ ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ. ๐๐ญ๐ญ ๐ ๐ธ๐ข๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฅ๐ฐ ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ช๐ต, ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ญ๐บ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ข๐ค๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ต๐ฎ๐ต๐ฃ ๐ณ๐ข๐ค๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ข๐ญ๐ต๐ฐ๐จ๐ฆ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ. ๐๐ฆ๐ต๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฃ๐ข๐ค๐ฌ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ช๐ต๐ด ๐ช๐ต ๐ต๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฑ ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ณ๐ช๐ฅ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ. ๐๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ต๐ช๐ญ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ช๐ฏ๐ช๐ด๐ฉ, ๐ ๐ซ๐ถ๐ด๐ต ๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ต๐ต๐ณ๐บ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฑ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ท๐ช๐ฏ๐จ, ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ต๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ด ๐'๐ฅ ๐ง๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ญ ๐จ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ต ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฏ๐ถ๐ต๐ฆ๐ด ๐ญ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ ๐'๐ฅ ๐ง๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ญ ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ด. ๐ ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ง๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐จ๐ฉ ๐๐ข๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ญ๐บ ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฅ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ข๐ด๐ต ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ฑ๐ช๐ต ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ธ๐ฐ ๐ญ๐ข๐ฑ๐ด ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ช๐ด๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐บ ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ต๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ง๐ง๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ด๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ค๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฅ (๐ด๐ฐ๐ณ๐ณ๐บ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฅ).
๐๐ฆ๐ด๐ฑ๐ช๐ต๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ถ๐ง๐ง๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐จ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ต๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ข๐ค๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ 13 ๐ญ๐ข๐ฑ๐ด ๐ข๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต 104 ๐ฎ๐ช๐ญ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฐ๐ต๐ข๐ญ. ๐๐ฐ๐ต ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ญ๐บ ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ช๐ต ๐ฉ๐ข๐ณ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ต ๐ช๐ต ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ, ๐ ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐จ๐ฉ 3 ๐ด๐ฆ๐ต๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฃ๐ณ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ข๐ฅ๐ด!
๐๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ข๐ค๐ฆ, ๐ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ฏ๐ฐ ๐ช๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ข ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ด๐ช๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ข๐ต๐ฃ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐จ๐ฐ๐ณ๐บ. ๐๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ช๐ต ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ข ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ต๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ค๐ฌ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ฏ ๐'๐ฅ ๐ข๐ค๐ต๐ถ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐บ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ข๐ต๐ฃ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐จ๐ฐ๐ณ๐บ. ๐๐ฐ๐ต ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ญ๐บ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ต ๐ ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ ๐ค๐ฉ๐ข๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ. ๐๐ช๐ด๐ด๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ. ๐ ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ถ๐ฑ 13๐ต๐ฉ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ด๐ต๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ 6๐ต๐ฉ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐40 ๐ค๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐จ๐ฐ๐ณ๐บ.
๐๐บ ๐ณ๐ช๐ฅ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ด๐ด๐ช๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ข๐ฎ๐ข๐ป๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ธ๐ช๐ง๐ฆ ๐๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฏ๐ข ๐๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฏ๐ต๐ฐ๐ฏ-๐๐ค๐๐ถ๐ญ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ฉ , ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ญ๐บ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฑ ๐ฅ๐ถ๐ณ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ข๐ค๐ฆ, ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ต ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ต๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ถ๐ฑ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐ช๐ฏ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐'๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ถ๐ฏ ๐ถ๐ฑ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ข๐ค๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฑ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ฐ๐ณ๐จ๐ข๐ฏ๐ช๐ด๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ด๐ฐ ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ค๐ฉ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐บ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ข๐ค๐ฆ. ๐๐ญ๐ถ๐ด, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ฑ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ด ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฑ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ฅ๐ถ๐ณ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ต๐ฐ๐ฐ.
Thatโs brilliant Tony, but I still canโt get my head around what you went through and still carried on.
Finally, and you guessed it, itโs that super machine Mr Marcel Schubert.
Later in the season, unbeknown to Marcel until Steve Fullerton pointed it out to him, he was in a good position to compete for the Cycling Time Trials Menโs BBAR (Best British All Rounder) thatโs 50, 100 miles, plus a 12-hour event. The event winner is the rider with the fasted combined average speed over all three events. At this point Marcelโs ears pricked up as he hadnโt realised, but in a meeting after the Wednesday 10โs in the Chequers pub, where he asked what support he could get from club members which is needed for a 12 hr event, three members quickly put their hands up and offered the help he needed at the 12hr event.
Roll on a few weeks and they all travelled down to the Monmouth for the National 12 Hour event with 55 entrees, which required an overnight stay for the early start. At these events you watch many riders go past as they race around circuits on the road and itโs all about pacing, especially as some of the best time trialistโs in the UK were taking part, you donโt want to blow up before the end.
The support team help with regular drink hand overs on the move (this had been practised in advance by his support team) and making sure he had enough nutrition to keep going. Then came the Formula 1 moment in the pits, Marcel rides with a waxed chain rather than oil as there is less resistance, but it wears off with time. So into the pits and Steve Earle and Mike Gent help with topping up his front and rear water carriers, whilst Steve Fullerton sets about changing the chain, the whole process took a couple of minutes and then Marcel was back on it, to complete his challenge.
Due to the number of riders and the fact the winner is based on the number of miles they ride in 12 hours, there are lots of marshals taking times. After the event was finished, we had to wait a number of nail biting weeks to get the final results, due to the number of times to check. They did however publish the results after the event, but they were challenged, and it seemed an age before they were finally released.
Then it happened. Our wait was worth it, Marcel was the 2022 winner of the Menโs BBAR. This is the first time in Darlingtonโs Cycling Clubโs history (and I include Richmond & Darlington CC, as we were previously called in that statement) so that goes back to the 50โs I believe, and we have had some top cyclists over those years, that we have had a BBAR winner.
So not only is it a remarkable achievement for anybody to achieve, but when you look at the results and just see, one, how fast they can ride and, two, how close the results at the top itโs unbelievable, just milliseconds apart over all three events.
Some of these riders taking part will have the best bikes you can get and some of the most aero clothing and equipment on the market which can make a difference between being a winner of not, Marcel has none of this and he won.
So, there we have it, three club members with brilliant racing results in 2022, you are all a credit to the club. If I have missed a club member with some results that should be mentioned, Iโm not aware of it and I owe you an apology, but please get in touch so that we know about them.
On a final note, we are working behind the scenes to be able to put some financial support in place for club riders of this calibre, so that we can put in place a racing ethos within DCC.
Mike Drake
Chairman
Darlington Cycling Club
Mob: 07702 311081
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