Shardlow rode a personal best time of 11 minutes and ten seconds to finish equal second with Woolf, who had clawed back several seconds on Colledge with an impressive home leg ride.

But Colledge hung on to his lead, winning the event in 11.04, as Shardlow and Woolf consigned Chris Green, a further eight seconds back, to a rare finish outside the top three.

Karl Proctor chose to ride his road bike and his finishing time was well down on the previous week.

Matlock CC’s younger riders also found the stiff breeze hard to cope with.

Arthur Green, 12, was the fastest in 14.29, while Patrick Smart just beat 20 mph with 14.58 and fellow 13-year-old Will Colledge recorded 15.27.

Ashford five-mile result

1 Peter Colledge 11.04, 2=Mark Shardlow 11.10, 2= Andy Woolf 11.10, 4 Chris Green 11.18, 5 Patrick Gould 11.52, 6 Karl Proctor 11.59, 7 Matt Ingram 12.10, 8 James Furniss 12.19, 9 James Stokes 12.29, 10 Gary Blackham 12.42, 11 Nick Pine 12.58, 12 Stewart Marsh 13.14, 13 Mark Blackham 13.19, 14 Gary Whitmore 13.51, 15 Andy Pretty 13.53, 16 Mike Browell 13.56, 17 Arthur Green 14.29, 18 Peter Smith 14.57, 19 Patrick Smart 14.58, 20 Will Colledge 15.27

IN the short hilly trial, the damp weather caused most riders to leave their time trial bikes at home and ride their road bikes.

But riding his time trial bike paid off for Richard Cordin who won by a clear margin in 19.46.

Hill climbing specialist Chris Metcalfe had missed all the early time trials due to work commitments, but he showed he had lost none of his form from last season to take second place in 20.09.

Leigh Fearn came home in third place in 20.41.

For Teresa Billington it was her first ever time trial and she battled round this tough and demanding course in 27.12.

Patrick Smart gave his all to cut a further 57 seconds off the personal best he only set last week and he finished in 24.52, tenth out of 16 riders.

Short hilly time trial result

1 Richard Cordin 19.46, 2 Chris Metcalfe 20.09, 3 Leigh Fearn 20.41, 4 Mark Shardlow 20.48, 5 Patrick Gould 21.13, 6 Chris Green 21.25, 7 Gary Blackham 22.32, 8 James Stokes 23.12, 9 John White 24.10, 10 Patrick Smart 24.52, 11 Andy Pretty 25.10, 12 Gary Whitmore 26.00, 13 Ian Stuart 26.06, 14 Andrew Spriggs 26.36, 15 Teresa Billington 27.12, 16 Peter Smith 28.14.