Perfect weather, stunning scenery and challenging courses were the hallmarks of the first Cycling Plus Sportive supported by Pacific Outdoor Equipment in association with the Geoff Thomas Foundation at BikeRadar Live.

The event was enjoyed by some 500 cyclists, who tackled 69 mile (more than the advertised 100km) and 100 mile routes through Derbyshire and the Peak District. Those who had the fitness for the longer route were rewarded with the toughest climbs, but also the most beautiful views and some incredible riding terrain.

Car traffic was minimal, especially in the Peak District, where you were more likely to see walkers than motorists. The routes were also clearly marked and marshalled in many places and the feed stations were well manned.

Many found the hardest part to be the flattish last 30 miles to the finish, which was into the teeth of a Nor’ easterly wind. But that was all part of the challenge.

Formula 1 star Mark Webber completed the 69 mile route in a very quick time of just over three and a half hours, showing that he’s not just a fast man behind the wheel.

Graeme Obree also managed the 69 mile route (on a borrowed carbon bike, not his home built time trial machine), but didn’t have the easiest time of it: “I was quite tired at the end, but I didn’t have enough water. I drink so much. I had a bottle then it was gone in 10 minutes.”

But Obree wasn’t completely done: he got onto the Donington circuit and did an unofficial lap in a time of under 5′50, on his purpose built time trial bike. He’ll be back on Sunday to do a proper one.

Karen ‘Popette’ Poppelwell, Team Cycling Plus looked a little bit cooked after her crack at the 100 miles, which she managed in an excellent time of 6hrs40min. She was both tired and exhausted when we chatted to her after the finish:

“It was fantastic, great, picturesque, but the last 10 miles I really struggled. Dan from Team Cycling Plus dragged me home. I feel terrible now, not far off cabbage actually.

“I had set targets with my coach Joe Beer: eight hours would have been ‘acceptable’, seven and a half was ’successful’ and under seven was brilliant. So 6hrs40 was just unbelievable! The best bit was when I got to 50 miles in 2hrs55. I’d gotten into some really good groups and that helped keep my speed up.”

Karen was impressed with the middle section of the ride through the Peak District: “It was gorgeous. I’m going to come back with my family.”

Results are listed below in last name alphabetical order. Note: some of the 100 mile times may actually be 100km times, because some who registered for the 100 mile changed their minds mid way and did the shorter route. If you’re one of these, then let us know at bikeradar@bikeradar.com.

100 mile route

Race# and Name Chip Time 1 Chris Abbott 8:02:04 235 Paolo Aldighieri 6:40:34 242 Hugh Alexander 7:33:20 125 Rob Allen 4:51:54 184 Richard Allen 9:11:40 81 John Anglesea 6:32:15 243 Pascal Arnoux 6:25:27 303 Graham Bacon 5:58:02 332 Paul Bailey 9:07:05 200 Ken Baker 6:56:58 179 Paul Barber 7:05:22 134 Rachael Barker-Quick 4:55:41 223 Bill Barrie 6:00:19 167 Robert Beaumont 6:31:19 79 Lee Blades 5:31:25 193 Mark Blakeley 7:18:44 191 David Booth 6:53:09 624 Andrew Bradley 7:16:43 221 Paul Bramford 8:03:33 288 Martin Brandon 7:14:56 305 Peter Broad 8:20:37 195 Jake Brodetsky 7:17:31 24 Simon Broomhead 6:45:08 302 Peter Broows 7:33:43 156 Geoff Brown 7:38:37 310 Paul Brown 9:04:27 142 Teak Builder 7:14:07 311 Philip Bullas 9:07:04 109 Simon Burbidge 7:54:22 249 Nick Burton 6:03:15 82 Tom Butcher 5:31:16 201 Barry Calder 7:16:54 317 David Carter 6:49:27 30 Steve Cartman 8:01:05 222 Greg Casewell 7:24:53 278 Shawn Chambers 6:52:56 246 Ian Chandler 6:51:49 265 Richard Chesser 8:40:44 203 Andrew Clark 5:48:18 111 Paul Clarke 8:04:11 2 Jeffrey Cochius 7:34:03 114 Damien Coleby 8:40:52 113 Sarah-Jane Coleby 8:40:55 301 Edward Coley 8:05:28 293 Jonathan Cook 6:36:11 194 Graham Cooke 7:16:25 320 Larry Copson 7:50:32 257 Perie Cordner 9:04:14 258 Stuart Cordner 318 Lawrence Cox 6:49:12 276 Simon Crisp 7:14:03 275 Andrew Crisp 7:14:12 328 Matt Crouch 9:07:04 145 Roger Cullen 7:40:03 144 Richard Cullen 7:47:13 163 Richard Daglish 8:31:06 323 Rob Darman 5:52:26 262 Ewan Davidson 5:57:01 189 Toby Davies 6:23:09 209 Nicholas Dean 7:33:10 274 Jason Debono 8:05:14 280 Tim Dennis 6:46:33 186 Steve Devine 4:57:49 211 John Dodds 7:21:06 197 Ged Dore 7:18:48 166 Miles Drew 8:49:53 286 Edward Druce 6:50:48 73 Iain Duffy 7:23:27 124 Matthew Dugas 7:53:23 93 Robert Dumelow 5:20:06 300 Graham Edwards 5:37:18 152 Richard Edwards 7:20:21 521 Simon Edwards-Parton 6:45:58 279 Steve Elliott 6:25:35 314 Simon Evans 8:03:25 188 Shue Fan 6:51:53 103 Stephen Fisher 5:51:06 13 Andrew Flaherty 7:10:37 89 John Fletcher 8:23:29 61 Steve Fowkes 5:54:16 94 Gez Franklin 5:58:51 78 Richard Gamble 7:26:30 54 David Gardner 6:06:48 72 Paul Gardner 6:42:08 231 Chris Gauntlett 6:34:41 108 Mark Goldstein 6:24:26 290 Andrew Goodwin 6:34:09 192 Andy Grain 7:18:44 128 John Greasley 6:39:25 238 Alan Greatbatch 8:44:46 277 Simon Greenwood 6:10:45 171 Mark Grice 7:10:02 117 Nick Hallifax 7:23:27 62 Paul Hammond 7:26:18 118 Quentin Hanley 9:17:43 334 James Hannon 8:52:22 282 David Harbon 7:16:43 36 Michaele Hardie 7:45:09 64 Richard Harrison 6:10:47 324 Clifford Heal 6:50:51 218 Rick Heath 8:06:39 172 Bethany Hedger 7:51:05 326 Robert Henderson 7:18:28 119 Wayne Henderson 7:52:11 141 Stephen Henry 7:14:12 330 Frazer Herald 7:32:11 264 John Herd 7:14:33 199 Mark Hextall 6:33:20 309 Andrew Hill 7:30:18 80 John Hind 6:20:49 260 Ruth Hollinger 7:33:29 606 Bruce Hopkins 7:19:27 266 Michael Hovers 7:16:18 52 Gregg Hunt 7:34:42 292 Chris Hutley 6:50:10 316 Liz Hutton 7:49:12 65 Karl Huxham 7:45:14 297 Derek Irwin 4:51:29 17 Keith Isted 8:03:14 296 Kevin Izzard 7:07:53 229 Keith Jackson 7:09:02 174 Mark Jenkins 6:17:36 11 Paul Johnson 6:35:15 9 Trevor Jones 5:15:03 321 Jeff Jones 5:28:27 307 Mike Jones 5:48:46 66 Adrian Jones 7:36:11 304 Jo Ladd 8:23:03 187 Colin Lambourne 5:55:15 44 Nick Lawn 6:57:43 333 Andrew Lea 8:52:24 21 David Lee 6:29:13 76 Paul Lee 8:37:36 107 Pete Lees 6:51:15 234 David Leigh 6:42:16 75 Kevin Lester 8:37:39 281 Harvey Levann 6:44:35 253 Mark Lindsay 7:35:10 51 Kevin Lloyd 7:29:40 331 Adam Lockton 6:06:42 105 Phil Lord 7:20:12 227 Darren Lunn 6:27:18 47 Mike Lunn 6:57:44 12 Andrew Lyon 6:02:26 207 Kevin Mack 5:51:55 139 Duncan Mackenzie 7:51:09 120 Oliver Mann 8:03:57 217 Johnny Manning 5:58:17 99 Graeme Maw 7:10:04 308 Gary Mcafee 6:33:48 162 Mathew Mcdermott 8:05:48 248 Ewan Mcgregor 7:56:12 198 Andrew Mcknight 7:00:53 252 Colin Mclean 7:35:10 164 Brendan Mcnallen 8:05:46 517 Alan Mcnally 8:04:14 143 Christopher Moore 5:30:05 3 David Moore 6:38:44 49 Ray Mortlock 6:08:08 267 Domenico Nardelli 7:27:02 291 Andrew Nobles 6:52:53 15 Chris Nutland 6:59:40 84 Jonathan O’brien 5:51:06 190 Sven Oestmann 6:29:36 173 Nigel Ould 6:17:36 5 Chris Payne 7:02:21 153 Thomas Peoples 5:48:19 102 Mikael Perret 6:41:51 43 Matthew Pickford 6:57:44 762 Karen Poppelwell 6:40:00 98 Kate Poxon 8:07:32 284 Douglas Pratt 6:46:18 230 Andrew Proctor 6:41:30 181 Chris Prokopyszyn 6:28:03 261 Anthony Purnell 5:37:15 33 Mathew Quick 6:38:51 271 Gavin Reeves 7:31:17 205 Anthony Richards 7:33:35 212 Andy Robertson 7:36:03 213 Daniel Robertson 7:49:41 285 Steve Roe 7:49:08 67 Stephen Rumble 6:45:43 160 Matt Russell 6:12:22 88 Dean Russell 6:22:32 325 Darren Ryefinch 7:23:39 206 Neil Saunders 9:14:11 241 Clive Savage 7:24:02 158 Harvey Schofield 6:32:15 8 Christopher Seaston 7:49:05 151 Stephen Sellick 6:35:11 110 Jon Sharpe 7:52:54 104 Tim Shaw 7:14:48 259 Angus Shedden 7:33:29 210 Roger Sheridan 5:55:22 185 Lee Siberas 7:04:58 169 Robert Simpson 6:12:36 90 Peter Sloan 8:11:38 87 Andrew Small 7:10:37 183 Gary Smith 6:40:28 96 Andrew Smith 7:31:14 101 Nigel Snaith 7:34:56 322 Clive Sparling 9:06:47 91 Jon Standen 7:53:22 146 Nicole Stewart 7:18:53 18 Lester Stratton 7:21:51 50 Ron Stuart 6:49:36 69 Ben Summers 7:10:06 178 Chris Sumpter 7:41:56 19 David Swingler 6:03:03 122 Garry Taylor 7:11:27 329 Chris Thomas 9:07:04 335 Geoff Thomas 9:07:07 4 Richard Thompson 7:28:46 220 Chris Thornton 5:53:35 306 Ville Tiitola 6:36:28 86 Richard Todd 6:22:28 269 Peter Townsend 5:35:32 226 Mark Townsend 5:35:39 283 James Turnbull 6:26:44 74 Peter Turner 5:31:11 85 Tuhin Wahid 5:31:21 115 Peter Wakelin 6:24:27 202 Jonathan Walker 7:24:21 177 Ian Wallbank 7:41:03 127 Patrick Wass 5:59:18 312 Paul Waters 8:03:32 237 Richard Watkin 6:41:28 39 Neil Watson 7:10:24 46 Phillip Watson 7:33:32 196 Duncan Watt 6:57:12 236 Andy Watts 7:16:29 204 Peter Weeks 6:55:49 219 Jonathan Wheeler 7:19:28 319 Daniel White 6:40:01 254 Martin Whitehouse 8:19:50 315 Mark Wickersham 6:31:12 37 Andrew Wilbram 7:03:54 83 Stuart Wilkinson 6:23:24 155 Richard Williams 6:05:45 287 Peter Williams 6:40:35 270 Richard Williams 7:38:25 180 Kate Williams 7:46:29 255 Ian Wilson 6:27:55 256 Helen Wilson 6:31:14 214 Martin Wimpenny 6:43:33 140 Andrew Windle 7:07:05 295 Simon Withey 7:22:00 6 Miles Wood 6:25:29 503 Pete Wood 7:09:09 504 Chris Wood 7:09:10 150 Peter Wotton 6:08:20 327 Alastair Wright 5:37:13 215 Doug Baker DNS 22 Alan Bradshaw DNS 289 David Briggs DNS 23 D John Carter DNS 14 Andy Clark DNS 268 Jason Clark DNS 182 Mark Classick DNS 68 Simon Collins DNS 77 Ralph Cooper DNS 28 Robert Corke DNS 20 Lawrence Cox DNS 233 Maria Crook DNS 45 Peter Crowe DNS 53 Mick Day DNS 313 Robert Delaporte DNS 32 Scott Druck DNS 121 Alex Elliott DNS 251 Steve Evans DNS 129 Catherine Frayne DNS 35 Paul Frayne DNS 131 Matthew Fry DNS 175 Peter Goodfield DNS 34 Charlie Harding DNS 165 Mark Hendricks DNS 273 Frazer Herald DNS 27 David Jones DNS 170 Paul Kaerger DNS 250 Jo Ladd DNS 208 Ellen Leggett DNS 40 Darren Limbert DNS 41 Martyn Limbert DNS 25 Richard Lunardi DNS 92 Dave Luscombe DNS 31 Kai Maguire DNS 130 Tom Mains DNS 168 Tom Martin DNS 245 Matthew Mcgovern DNS 224 Roland Mcildowie DNS 97 Liam Mcnelis DNS 159 Kevin O’hara DNS 699 Karen Poplewell DNS 16 Darren Pyefinch DNS 138 Fraser Reid DNS 240 Philip Robins DNS 161 Martin Roffe DNS 100 Kevin Seymour DNS 216 Julian Smith DNS 123 Debbie Taylor DNS 95 Robert Taylor DNS 294 Geoff Thomas DNS 106 Michael Wainwright DNS 133 Triston Wallace DNS 57 Giles Wardle DNS 56 Colin Williams DNS 225 Lucy Williams DNS

100 km route

Race# and NameChip Time508 Michael Acton4:52:03691 Stephen Alden5:30:29578 Richard Brian Annable4:45:26580 Philip Atkinson5:08:31589 Steve Bacon4:13:31555 Timothy Bailey5:09:51531 Rachel Barber5:10:13672 Lewis Barlow5:08:24673 Natasha Barlow622 Paul Barnard4:03:51695 Nick Barnes3:51:55591 Andy Beever4:31:15247 Paul Begley4:17:15661 Mark Bell5:16:34651 Michael Bell6:13:50638 Andrew Bennett5:19:07709 Melanie Berry4:42:55621 Stuart Bettis4:07:09600 Mike Billington5:12:25502 Hanna Blackledge4:50:3655 Iain Blakeley7:38:44569 Peter Bowers4:38:50176 Andrew Bowley4:49:5848 Mark Bowley4:50:39635 Christopher Brain4:06:41632 Neil Braithwaite3:55:41742 Joy Bringar4:27:06526 Penny Briscoe4:04:40772 Rebecca Broadbent4:47:47561 Ian Broadfoot4:32:45534 Anna Brocklehurst5:05:25732 John Buchanan4:35:46244 Richard Budworth4:49:00604 Gillian Campbell5:28:05669 Kathy Carmichael5:53:47603 Russell Carter5:28:06597 Clare Chambers5:00:00554 Steve Chell4:19:18510 Iain Christie4:58:32613 Martin Christmas3:52:59630 Russell Clark3:55:12654 David Clark5:33:06612 Richard Clarke3:57:22720 Andy Clay4:33:28512 Andy Clayton3:49:38702 Viv Clement4:42:56771 Dan Clowes6:39:38687 Alex Collazos4:46:1010 Sean Combes4:28:59272 Matthew Cooke3:55:53689 Harvey Cooke4:41:2870 Dennis Cronin4:15:34679 Allan Cross4:10:54528 Simon Crowther4:16:22658 John Curtis5:25:28761 Nathan Dae4:13:10696 Ian Dickens3:48:51537 Jim Donaldson4:27:46743 Billy Donsford4:54:54750 Luke Dragetra6:31:08520 Gregor Drummond4:58:15740 Seresh Dulal3:44:43583 John Easy4:28:44582 Bill Edwards5:08:56634 Gary Eisenhauer4:23:26748 Dan Ellmore9:07:04664 Guy Evans3:53:42735 Chris Finster4:07:23518 Caroline Froggatt6:43:09618 Ian Gadsby4:28:44513 Chris Gandy6:43:06515 Richard Gawthorpe4:21:36710 Helen Gorman4:42:57542 Sarah Grandy4:49:08514 Amy Grant6:19:14666 Julie Gray4:16:08607 Russell Greaves4:03:12501 Clive Greaves5:32:27680 Graham Green3:54:03116 Scott Griffiths4:52:26714 Calin Gruia5:07:30157 Christopher Hallam4:26:19668 Suzanne Hamilton5:21:40519 Tom Hammersley4:30:30567 Richard Hammond3:57:25571 David Harding4:22:18574 Peter Harding4:22:40690 Richard Hargreaves4:12:07594 Darren Harper4:11:41774 Wayne Harris3:28:44663 Nicola Harris4:23:4260 Rick Harrison4:06:29132 Colin Harrison4:33:17718 Kevin Haylett4:03:16568 Duncan Heddell5:16:33733 Chris Helliwell4:36:10611 Cheryl Henshaw3:53:29126 Nigel Hewett4:30:28640 Gary Hibbard4:38:44775 Jenny Hilton3:57:22773 Richard Hitson4:42:40683 Andrew Hodgkinson4:37:2463 Dave Hogan5:30:34697 Paul Hopkinson4:45:01745 Tony Horsefield4:24:44751 Tim Hubbard4:31:14556 Adrian Hubszer4:23:32539 Oliver Humphreys3:29:29239 Andrew Hunstone4:10:00646 Debbie Hunstone5:38:39694 Robert Hunter5:09:36595 Peter Hutton4:06:48570 Mike Ives4:15:58511 Katherine Jackson6:43:10135 Brian Jeffery4:56:12586 Sue Jeffery4:56:13557 David Jennings3:58:05678 Glyn Jervis4:15:11527 Steve Johnson4:06:53652 Peter Johnston6:10:3959 Mick Jolley4:16:25616 Niall Jordan506 Neil Joyce4:43:25777 Martin Keeling4:07:24648 Michael Kendall4:15:12717 Graham Kew4:52:59677 Lee Kilgour5:13:43592 Brian Killeen4:30:16601 Andrew Kitchen3:53:48641 Henry Kobs5:07:50656 Tim Lawson3:12:14744 Timothy Leniman4:54:29154 Iain Liddle4:38:17700 Geoffrey Lightfoot5:28:57605 Matthew Litchfield3:28:40572 Stuart Lockley5:51:06608 Wes Longley4:33:21633 Simon Ludlow4:24:12543 Phil Lumb5:35:43228 Alan Lunn3:51:56533 Ross Macgregor4:49:09636 Bernadette Mackie4:48:44620 James Macwilliam4:32:05681 Trent Mapp4:53:36746 Mori Marco4:33:58523 Louise Marsden6:54:32522 Owen Marsden579 Gareth Mate4:40:15562 Hugh Mccormack6:04:08547 Betty Mcghee5:05:32548 Steve Mcquade5:02:42731 Julian Mills3:32:30625 Michael Miseler4:05:29711 Brian Moore5:03:21741 Richard Morgan4:27:05644 Lisa Munro4:02:48643 Neil Munro4:02:49148 Maurice Needoff4:32:14649 Stuart Neilson3:55:40587 Stuart Nickless3:47:20684 John O’reilly4:22:45704 Louise O’reilly4:47:54659 Craig Palmer3:54:1742 Mark Parish3:50:47671 Kathryn Parker5:18:16670 Robert Parker5:18:17614 Russell Parkin3:30:3358 Tim Plackett4:15:30596 Shane Pope5:00:01759 Hugh Porter4:28:10757 Sean Porter4:49:07615 Ashley Prestidge3:46:20763 Gareth Price4:29:55552 Debbie Read4:47:03553 Simon Read657 Richard Read4:56:46137 Alistair Reid4:28:40623 Andrew Reynolds4:16:40559 Gary Richards4:32:5629 Vernon Richardson4:01:15770 William Richardson4:12:4126 Kevin Richardson4:53:58232 Ian Robinson3:56:24749 Mamad Salamat3:48:14747 Michael Santys-Cropper4:24:40298 Chris Sawford5:27:31516 Stephen Seamark4:16:08647 David Searle4:47:36599 Clive Shackleton4:37:24637 Sheelagh Shaen-Carter5:09:44665 David Sharpe4:16:09524 Georgina Sharples4:04:21753 Lauren Shaw5:00:24754 Drent Shaw5:00:2671 Tony Sheppard4:42:46682 Christopher Shore3:50:38149 Mel Sims4:32:15756 Jerome Smith4:14:56585 Christopher Smith4:28:45645 Adrian Smyth4:44:51705 Robert Spedding4:05:34693 Nicholas Steel4:53:46136 Dominik Steinhauer5:19:02631 Richard Stenhouse3:54:32147 Paul Stewart5:53:50760 James Stokes3:44:43730 Carl Stuckenbrook3:32:25581 Jamie Swinfield7:16:54577 Paul Swinfield722 William Sztopez5:32:26653 Philip Taylor4:45:54598 David Taylor4:53:15778 Graham Temple4:04:55642 Nigel Thomas5:25:02764 Chris Thompson5:10:16758 Chris Tomkins3:44:52739 James Tomkins3:46:21779 Patrick Trainer3:57:32584 Andy Tucker3:53:52639 Graham Tunnicliff5:19:07769 Mark Turner4:42:11716 Michael Turner5:04:32715 Brenda Turner5:04:33549 Mark Vallis5:07:14299 Edwyn Glynn Van Rooyen5:27:31610 Andy Vaughan3:53:30660 Nick Wainwright3:54:16593 Alan Wakely3:54:21112 Damien Walsh4:22:37766 Graham Walsh5:07:57755 Catherine Walton5:04:3638 Brenda Watson5:26:10573 Dougal Watson5:51:11706 Mark Webber3:32:27719 Philip Webster4:27:21765 Ian Welch4:19:24768 Simon Wich3:35:37723 Jamie Wilkins4:06:15736 Richard Wilks4:05:57674 Robert Williams4:47:23650 Sonja Wilmink6:13:50685 Ian Wilson4:10:14588 Darren Wilson4:16:29667 Naomi Woodland5:21:28602 Geoff Wyatt3:47:28692 Linda Yarnold5:30:28686 Neil Yates4:10:14536 Nigel AbbottDNS535 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