Lewes Wanderers are Bec in the old routine

Fastest of the three was Rob Rollings, who sped around the course near Steyning in 53min 40sec to finish ninth of the 81 finishers.

Not far behind time-wise was Nick Dwyer in 13th in a time of 54:18, while Peter Baker stopped the watch 2.24 outside of the hour to place 58th.

The same three were back in action seven days later in a Southdown Velo run-event over the same distance, between Arundel and Chichester’s outskirts.

On this occasion Nick got the better of Rob as he placed 17th in 53:27 to Rob’s 54:11 which left him 21st. Peter got within 45 seconds of the hour mark as he placed 53rd of the 101 racers.

Representing trainSharp, Lewes Wanderers member Lisa Davis travelled even further both on the bike and off. She was in WIltshire competing in the National 100-mile championship on roads around Wootton Bassett.

She did rather well as her time to cover the course of 4 hours 28 minutes and 25 seconds was good enough for 11th female overall and 2nd among the over 40s.

That was a sprint in comparison to her endeavours a week later when she competed in the National 12-hour Championship on roads on the England-Wales border to the south and east of Wrexham.

Despite her tri-bars breaking around midday, from 7am to 7pm she covered a remarkable 235.83 miles, good enough for victory among the over-40 women and a highly impressive fourth place overall.

She was less than a mile off the distance needed to get a podium place.