Hunt and Murray take Bristol South 50 wins
Army Cycling Union members Rich Hunt and Christina Murray were fastest male and female respectively at Bristol South CC’s 50-mile time trial in Wiltshire on Sunday.
Hunt, 45 and from Chepstow, clocked 1:54.46 to take the overall victory by 3-23 from the promoting club’s junior Josh Griffiths, while his Bristol South CC team-mate Nick Livermore was third, more than four minutes further off the pace set by Hunt.
Murray’s time of 2:12.42 gave her victory in the women’s category by just over six minutes from Joanne Jago (Performance Cycles), while Gemma Waterjohns (Somerset RC) was third.
The course is a circuit which takes riders along the B4040 from near the junction with Dog Trap Lane, and in an anti-clockwise direction, through Charlton and past the eastern fringes of Malmesbury, before turning back east along the B4042 then heading back north just before the junction with the M4.
For Hunt, it was the latest in a string of good performances in the 2017 season. He was victorious in Andover Wheelers’ 24-mile
time trial back in February, and while he has secured a series of top ten placings since then, he has not won an open event until now.
Hunt is next in action in the National Team Time Trial Championships this weekend, and has also entered the National 50-Mile Championships on May 25.
Murray, 40 and from Swindon, has been in good form this season. Among her previous performances were victories in the women’s categories at North Devon Wheelers’ 32-mile TT in April, as well as a win in the Stockton Wheelers sporting 23 a couple of weeks prior to that.
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