WYRE Wyre Forest CRC riders were reminded that winter is not yet over as they started their summer season of time trials with two races at the weekend.
Making a return to full time racing after a prolonged absence, Chris Morris led his team home in the SPOCO Championship event, promoted by the Wrekinsport CC, held in windy conditions over a hilly 18 miles course near Bridgnorth, finishing ninth from 90 entries in a time of 44 minutes and 32 seconds.
He was closely followed by Andy Convery in 11th place with a time of 44-47, Phil Hunt in 16th place with 46-05 and Adrian Manning 27th in 47-11.
Backing up the team were David Briggs (50th, 50-16), Ian Connolly (57th, 51-27) and Paul Crook (62th, 52-32).
The following day Morris, Hunt and Connolly were in action for another SPOCO event organised by the Banbury Star CC.
This race over an undulating 23 miles was run in a snow storm in freezing conditions, but the riders toughed it out to record some excellent performances with Morris again leading home his team in fifth place with a time of 1-00-32.
He was followed by Hunt in 13th place with 1-04-53 and Connolly in 25th place with 1-11-55.
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