As perfect an evening as riders could wish for saw five riders set personal best times in Round 8 of The Decathlon Evening 10 Series by Wrekinsport – including 16 year-old winner Ben Southgate who powered around the course in 22 minutes 26 minutes to take a maiden victory by six seconds. Southgate sliced a huge 1:22 off his Round 7 time showing the superb conditions and closed in on Tomos Hales’ Decathlon Series lead, narrowing it to two points after pushing out Phil Roberts to the runner-up spot in 22:32. Wrekinsport took all the podium steps with Rich Smith also narrowing the gap at the top taking third in 23:20, 14 seconds ahead of another personal best setter Ben Wood.

In the Road Bike Series regular Series visitor Hamish Maclean of Musselburgh RCC took a big win by 2:02 with a strong equal 5^th spot on 23:47, with Dave Moore taking the maximum six points on offer with a solid 25:49, and determined to make waves in the head-to-head battle between Elliott Wills and David Seager at the top of this Series. This week Wills got the best of the tussle with 26:39, 17 seconds to the good and narrowing Seager’s lead once again to a solitary point.

In the Women’s Series there was a first appearance of Victoria Doran, just breaking the 20mph ‘evens’ benchmark with 29:58; with Series leader Mollie Croxon 19 seconds back.

Decathlon Series by Wrekinsport Cumulative Standings after eight rounds

Pos'n	Name	Total Points
1	Tomos Hales	30
2	Ben Southgate	28
3	Rich Smith	23
4	Phil Roberts	22
5	Alex Hall	18
6	Ben Wood	13
=7	Dave Seager	6
=7	Elliott Wills	6
=7	Simon Thursz	6
=10	Adam Mumford	5
=10	Alex Leek	5
=10	Mollie Croxon	5

Road Bike Series Cumulative Standings after eight rounds

Pos'n	Name	Total Points
1	Dave Seager	31
2	Elliott Wills	30
3	Dave Moore	17
4	Mollie Croxon	15
=5	Martin Davies	12
=5	Stuart Wortley	12
7	Bruce Gregory	4
=8	Graham Strong	3
=8	Matt Price	3

Women’s Series Cumulative Standings after eight rounds

Pos'n	Name	Total Points
1	Mollie Croxon	26
2	Deb Hutson-Lumb	18
3	Victoria Doran	6