JACOB VEZY STRUGGLES TO BREAK STRUGGLE DALES UK RECORD – RESULTS

Struggle Dales is one of the UK’s most unforgiving sportives, set in the very lumpy Yorkshire Dales region best known for hosting the UCI 2019 Road Cycling World Championships, it is known to crush egos and humble even the most fit racers.

The 2022 edition saw time trial and hill climb specialist Jacob Vezey (HARROGATE NOVA CC) score the fastest time on the 108-mile route with almost 10,000 feet of climbing on seven categorized climbs, some with gradients well over 20 precent.

Fresh off of breaking his own course record at the AIMS Cycling hill-climb, Vezy stopped the clock at 5:47:00, not quite beating the leg-ripping course record set by Tom Denwood of 5:40:17.

Andy Cunningham (5:54:42) finished second and in third was Gareth Kerr (6:10:23).

Victoria Boid was the first women, finishing 72nd overall in 7:35:26.

Complete Struggle Dales results and rankings below:

Position	Rider Name	Gender	Ride Time
1	Jacob Vezey	Male	05:47:00
2	Andy Cunningham	Male	05:54:42
3	Gareth Kerr	Male	06:10:23
4	Daniel Readman	Male	06:21:10
5	James Lawler	Male	06:21:21
6	Simon De Burgh	Male	06:22:39
7	Roger Cutler	Male	06:26:12
8	Andrew Hughes	Male	06:26:29
9	Joshua Fuller	Male	06:26:29
10	Greg Ketteringham	Male	06:26:30
11	Stu Tomlinson	Male	06:40:27
12	Steve Carter	Male	06:41:52
13	Phil Greenfield	Male	06:42:45
14	John Grindley	Male	06:45:29
15	Paul Richardson	Male	06:45:48
16	Gavin Richardson	Male	06:45:50
17	Ewan Dowes	Male	06:45:52
18	Ryan Williams	Male	06:46:14
19	Robert Wilcox	Male	06:46:35
20	Lewis Payne	Male	06:49:01
21	Graham Piccavey	Male	06:49:03
22	Lee Bowell	Male	06:49:03
23	Matthew Braybrooke	Male	06:54:42
24	Mark Chicken	Male	06:55:12
25	Mick Roman	Male	06:56:08
26	Thomas Oliver	Male	06:58:56
27	James Chapman	Male	07:00:29
28	Robert Lunn	Male	07:00:37
29	Cerwyn West	Male	07:00:49
30	Robert Davies	Male	07:01:24
31	Duncan Woodhall	Male	07:05:41
32	Rob Hight	Male	07:08:52
33	Jez Walmsley	Male	07:11:00
34	Andrew Murphy	Male	07:12:11
35	Jonathan Dunbar	Male	07:12:55
36	Matthew Thompson	Male	07:13:45
37	Andrew Walker (Cirencester)	Male	07:16:35
38	Jonathan Nelson	Male	07:16:43
39	Iain Everett	Male	07:17:42
40	Dave Mann	Male	07:18:03
41	Alan Edwards	Male	07:18:10
42	Tom Smith	Male	07:19:15
43	Scott Gilchrist	Male	07:19:17
44	Stephen Hayes	Male	07:21:54
45	Michael Simms	Male	07:22:51
46	Tom Christmas	Male	07:23:02
47	Pete Wilson	Male	07:23:03
48	Gareth Mcfarlane	Male	07:23:21
49	Martin Wilson	Male	07:24:02
50	William Harvey	Male	07:25:03

51	David Pickles	Male	07:26:26
52	Colin Stubbs	Male	07:26:28
53	Robert Thomson	Male	07:26:59
54	Fergal Gara	Male	07:27:16
55	Steve Fairchild	Male	07:27:16
56	Tom Elliott	Male	07:27:16
57	Andrew Binks	Male	07:27:18
58	Eric Knights	Male	07:27:18
59	Duncan Gilbert	Male	07:27:19
60	Peter Evans	Male	07:27:24
61	Richard Greenhow	Male	07:27:35
62	Thomas Rayner	Male	07:29:00
63	Giles Caswell	Male	07:29:12
64	Steve Bannister	Male	07:29:44
65	Ben Hunter	Male	07:30:01
66	Chris Henderson	Male	07:30:42
67	Ste Heaton	Male	07:30:43
68	Paul Lawrence	Male	07:30:48
69	Ross Kozyrko	Male	07:32:35
70	Kevin Summers	Male	07:34:32
71	Stephen Brewster	Male	07:34:53
72	Victoria Boid	Female	07:35:26
73	Lee Fothergill	Male	07:37:51
74	Theo Taylor	Male	07:38:13
75	Carl Chart	Male	07:38:59
76	James Mann	Male	07:40:31
77	Adam Leach	Male	07:40:55
78	David Acres	Male	07:41:37
79	John Dunn	Male	07:41:37
80	Joshua Whitworth	Male	07:41:53
81	Thomas Birch	Male	07:41:54
82	Mark Pattrick	Male	07:41:56
83	Simon Childs	Male	07:43:23
84	Michael Scott	Male	07:43:32
85	Helena Sherwood	Female	07:44:11
86	Richard Cook	Male	07:44:28
87	Russell Porter	Male	07:44:35
88	Matthew Janes	Male	07:44:47
89	Kevin Rainsbury	Male	07:45:38
90	Andy Martin	Male	07:45:39
91	Gordon Bruce	Male	07:45:39
92	Paul O’brien	Male	07:46:00
93	Bartlomiej Szymkowiak	Male	07:47:32
94	Duncan Reaney	Male	07:47:49
95	Ross Barnard	Male	07:47:49
96	Adam Garner	Male	07:48:17
97	Gavin Smith	Male	07:50:02
98	Lee Donaldson	Male	07:50:02
99	Jason Whitehead	Male	07:50:03
100	Marj Lambert	Male	07:50:17

101	John Morris	Male	07:50:32
102	Luke Mackinder	Male	07:51:00
103	Philip Birbeck	Male	07:51:41
104	David Parvin	Male	07:52:07
105	Ross Macalister	Male	07:53:25
106	John Brooks	Male	07:53:42
107	Alex Regan	Male	07:54:27
108	Cameron Fraser	Male	07:54:28
109	Callum Blunt	Male	07:54:42
110	Shaun Dutton	Male	07:54:57
111	Keith Richardson	Male	07:56:07
112	Paul Ilott	Male	07:56:24
113	Charley Robson	Male	07:56:32
114	Ben Crosby	Male	07:56:33
115	Mark Hatton	Male	07:57:09
116	Benn Mann	Male	07:57:18
117	Chloe Geoghegan	Female	07:57:29
118	Andrew Murtagh	Male	07:58:05
119	Adam Holloway	Male	07:58:35
120	Benjamin Usher	Male	07:58:43
121	Jason Dobson	Male	07:59:05
122	James Reynolds	Male	07:59:58
123	Patrick Cotton	Male	07:59:58
124	Andrew Wild	Male	08:00:10
125	David Slater	Male	08:00:10
126	Paul Coyle	Male	08:00:10
127	Peter Brown	Male	08:00:58
128	Edward Auden	Male	08:03:37
129	Helen Auden	Female	08:03:37
130	David Jewison	Male	08:03:41
131	James Gilbert	Male	08:04:00
132	Alistair Robertshaw	Male	08:04:18
133	Tom Chatwyn	Male	08:04:19
134	Gavin Hotchkiss	Male	08:05:02
135	Calum Deans	Male	08:05:09
136	Kenneth Rafferty	Male	08:05:09
137	Euan Ferguson	Male	08:05:53
138	Daniel Mann	Male	08:06:28
139	Graeme Lockie	Male	08:07:27
140	Ben Goward	Male	08:07:50
141	Geoff Ware	Male	08:09:16
142	Chris Hughes	Male	08:10:37
143	Andrew Heide	Male	08:11:10
144	David Robinson	Male	08:11:19
145	Paul Hepple	Male	08:11:19
146	Roderick Shaw	Male	08:11:19
147	Malcolm Walker	Male	08:12:04
148	David Todd	Male	08:12:06
149	Ian Hunter	Male	08:12:17
150	Simon Burt	Male	08:12:35

151	Simon Edwards	Male	08:13:15
152	Juan Hatton	Male	08:13:32
153	Ian Harrison	Male	08:13:49
154	Chris Chapman	Male	08:15:01
155	Steve Houghton	Male	08:16:31
156	Chris Bolton	Male	08:16:40
157	Richard Ingle	Male	08:16:41
158	Wayne Filby	Male	08:18:09
159	Mark Hobson	Male	08:18:17
160	Andrew Smith	Male	08:18:29
161	Rachael Graham	Female	08:20:02
162	Paddy Maddison	Male	08:20:07
163	Robert Moss	Male	08:20:08
164	Jack Richings	Male	08:21:06
165	James Glazier	Male	08:21:18
166	Charlotte Dadd	Female	08:21:42
167	Shay Dempsey	Male	08:21:43
168	Stewart Kirkley	Male	08:22:15
169	Matthew Simmons	Male	08:22:16
170	Santiago Aviles	Male	08:22:49
171	Richard Louden	Male	08:22:55
172	Ross Barber	Male	08:23:22
173	Bridget Houlston	Female	08:23:38
174	Jon Porteous	Male	08:27:03
175	Kevin Pears	Male	08:27:32
176	Simon Davies	Male	08:28:36
177	Max Manning Lowe	Male	08:28:51
178	Pete Richards	Male	08:30:10
179	John Eastwood	Male	08:30:53
180	James Hughes	Male	08:31:35
181	Jonathan Leach	Male	08:31:37
182	Richard Leach	Male	08:31:38
183	Antony Parkes	Male	08:31:53
184	Oisin Scullion	Male	08:31:58
185	James Hagan	Male	08:32:03
186	Remo Biagioni	Male	08:32:37
187	Matthew Miller	Male	08:32:39
188	Thomas Gaynor	Male	08:32:42
189	Steve Slater	Male	08:33:54
190	David Amers	Male	08:34:24
191	Frank Nevens	Male	08:35:17
192	Kieran Robinson	Male	08:35:30
193	Nigel Harrison	Male	08:36:28
194	Philip Moore	Male	08:36:34
195	Iain Gibson	Male	08:36:43
196	Barry Eyles	Male	08:36:50
197	Jon Phillip	Male	08:36:50
198	Keith Jones	Male	08:37:44
199	Jamie Macpherson	Male	08:38:52
200	Chris Coole	Male	08:39:27

201	Nick Wyatt	Male	08:39:57
202	Matthew Welbourn	Male	08:39:58
203	Timothy Davies	Male	08:40:04
204	Ian Hamer	Male	08:40:33
205	Tim Jessup	Male	08:40:43
206	Malcolm Kilpatrick	Male	08:41:28
207	Christopher Convey	Male	08:41:36
208	Alistair Petyt	Male	08:41:40
209	Andrew Lamb	Male	08:41:40
210	Dan Ambler	Male	08:42:03
211	Jack Holden	Male	08:42:11
212	Dean Graham	Male	08:42:36
213	Andrew Boothroyd	Male	08:42:38
214	Mark Simpson (Ripon)	Male	08:43:11
215	Ian Stewart	Male	08:43:39
216	Harry Sampson	Male	08:43:51
217	Matthew Thornton	Male	08:44:17
218	Nick Baggaley	Male	08:44:17
219	Seonaid Morton	Female	08:44:18
220	Ian Morton	Male	08:44:25
221	Martin Reed	Male	08:44:33
222	Phillip Barker	Male	08:44:42
223	Sean Barber	Male	08:44:59
224	Stephen Moon	Male	08:45:27
225	Shaun Tomlinson	Male	08:45:29
226	Colin Stanson	Male	08:45:30
227	Matthew Field	Male	08:46:14
228	Jonathan Davis	Male	08:46:24
229	Adrian Wells	Male	08:46:47
230	Rosie Harris	Female	08:47:09
231	Seaghdha Kerry	Male	08:47:14
232	Stephen Graham	Male	08:47:15
233	Daniel Kerry	Male	08:47:36
234	Paul Bolton	Male	08:48:50
235	Chris Parsons	Male	08:49:02
236	Matt Speake	Male	08:49:03
237	Jonjo O’neill	Male	08:49:27
238	Alexandra Dinsdale	Female	08:49:28
239	Euan Baxter	Male	08:49:37
240	Lewis Lowe	Male	08:50:10
241	Peter Gossop	Male	08:50:18
242	Geoff Miller	Male	08:50:34
243	Andy Massey	Male	08:51:03
244	Samuel Abraham	Male	08:51:37
245	Kevin Johns	Male	08:51:59
246	Steve Meechan	Male	08:52:03
247	Paul Wright	Male	08:53:19
248	Robert Iles	Male	08:54:13
249	Max Spurge	Male	08:55:01
250	Luke Alfano	Male	08:55:21

251	Paul Skidmore	Male	08:56:05
252	Darren Parkinson	Male	08:56:11
253	Dennis Ward	Male	08:57:00
254	Darren Wood	Male	08:57:25
255	Josh Brett	Male	08:57:31
256	Stuart Priday	Male	08:57:33
257	Tom Wallace	Male	08:57:34
258	Nick Young	Male	08:57:41
259	Gary Baugh	Male	08:57:44
260	James Potter	Male	08:57:44
261	James Bundred	Male	08:58:09
262	Dafydd Plant	Male	08:58:12
263	Phil Dunseath	Male	08:59:20
264	Daniel Roberts	Male	08:59:33
265	John Buenaventura	Male	08:59:44
266	Geoff Phillips	Male	09:00:24
267	David Pickering	Male	09:00:26
268	Hugh Richmond	Male	09:00:51
269	Adam Ball	Male	09:02:26
270	Gareth Roberts	Male	09:03:30
271	Jan Macpherson	Male	09:03:30
272	Roddy Macdonald	Male	09:03:30
273	David Heneghan	Male	09:03:31
274	Nick Harkins	Male	09:03:38
275	Matthew Tattersall	Male	09:03:58
276	Andrew Frisby	Male	09:03:59
277	Richard Monkhouse	Male	09:03:59
278	Lyle King	Male	09:06:44
279	Jeremy Salmon	Male	09:08:48
280	Tracy Bailey	Female	09:08:49
281	David Sapsford	Male	09:09:05
282	Peter Featherstone	Male	09:09:05
283	Simon Harper	Male	09:09:08
284	Matthew Neal	Male	09:09:33
285	Graham Sitch	Male	09:09:34
286	James Varley	Male	09:09:52
287	Christopher Kemp	Male	09:09:54
288	Jonathan Bennett	Male	09:10:16
289	Steven Hubbard	Male	09:10:17
290	Ian Barclay	Male	09:10:18
291	Eddie Broome	Male	09:10:19
292	Xavier Archbold	Male	09:10:20
293	Kenneth Quigley	Male	09:11:05
294	Alan Mcneill	Male	09:11:08
295	Kirk Vitty	Male	09:11:28
296	Daniele Maestri	Female	09:11:32
297	Danielle Dawson	Female	09:12:05
298	James Hodgson	Male	09:12:05
299	Kieron Allibone	Male	09:12:20
300	Richard Stephenson	Male	09:12:48

301	Nick Hirst	Male	09:13:09
302	Richard Hand	Male	09:13:34
303	Mark Pottinger	Male	09:13:42
304	Gregor Hirst	Male	09:15:31
305	Michael Mckenzie	Male	09:15:32
306	Scott Crossett	Male	09:15:32
307	Scott Lindsay	Male	09:15:35
308	Jon Crisp	Male	09:15:41
309	Daniel Miller	Male	09:15:42
310	David Thomas	Male	09:15:43
311	Howard Kearns	Male	09:15:49
312	Richard Lunt	Male	09:15:50
313	Paul Rowling	Male	09:15:59
314	Andy Cliff	Male	09:16:03
315	Callum Edwards	Male	09:16:44
316	Oliver Fieldhouse	Male	09:16:45
317	Stewart Pullan	Male	09:17:05
318	Lee Simpson	Male	09:17:18
319	Martin Simpson	Male	09:17:19
320	David Sayles	Male	09:17:23
321	Daniel Jones	Male	09:18:30
322	David Rouse	Male	09:18:37
323	Simon Trenholm	Male	09:18:37
324	Nigel Ward	Male	09:18:40
325	Joseph Crossley	Male	09:18:52
326	Sam Collisson	Male	09:19:22
327	Susie Drinkwater	Female	09:19:26
328	Curtis Mearns	Male	09:19:36
329	Jordan Leigh	Male	09:19:37
330	Chris Taylor	Male	09:19:49
331	Steven Wilson	Male	09:19:51
332	Joel Rhule-Samuel	Male	09:19:52
333	Josef Murray	Male	09:20:20
334	Michael Kerrigan	Male	09:20:55
335	Kevin Kerrigan	Male	09:20:58
336	Kieren Moore	Male	09:21:44
337	George Fletcher	Male	09:22:38
338	Hailey Jones	Female	09:22:38
339	Mihir Joshi	Male	09:23:04
340	Valentijn Von Morgen	Male	09:23:43
341	John Oæmahony	Male	09:23:50
342	John Goddard	Male	09:23:51
343	Mark Llewellyn	Male	09:23:51
344	Daniel Rocca	Male	09:24:23
345	Phil Hudson	Male	09:26:32
346	Jan Sochon-Smith	Male	09:27:22
347	Simon Duckworth	Male	09:27:25
348	Sven Ekblom	Male	09:27:25
349	Adam Roney	Male	09:28:58
350	Joshua Turnbull-Neep	Male	09:29:33

351	David Bullock	Male	09:29:34
352	Ivan Gowan	Male	09:31:29
353	Leo Harrison	Male	09:31:33
354	Andrew Metcalfe	Male	09:32:38
355	Christopher Armstrong	Male	09:32:38
356	Lloyd Von Morgan	Male	09:35:33
357	Brian Love	Male	09:36:13
358	John Divers	Male	09:36:13
359	Paul Reid	Male	09:36:13
360	Brian Mcguigan	Male	09:36:14
361	Hamilton Huxham	Male	09:36:31
362	Katia Hadaschik	Female	09:36:31
363	Natalia Andreyeva	Female	09:36:32
364	Peter Newsome	Male	09:37:00
365	Russ Noble	Male	09:37:01
366	Jon Salthouse	Male	09:37:30
367	Robert Hartley	Male	09:37:34
368	Gareth Hardcastle	Male	09:37:35
369	Nick Paterson	Male	09:37:35
370	Andrew Gatenby	Male	09:37:50
371	Joel Martin	Male	09:39:06
372	Robert Monticelli	Male	09:39:16
373	Matt Webley	Male	09:41:00
374	Colin Bicknell	Male	09:42:31
375	Mark Simpson (Worksop)	Male	09:42:35
376	Peter Osborne	Male	09:42:36
377	Keith Ashcroft	Male	09:42:38
378	Jay Drinkwater	Male	09:42:44
379	Katrina Vollentine	Female	09:43:38
380	John Greenhalgh	Male	09:43:47
381	Emma Greenhalgh	Female	09:43:48
382	John Kinirons	Male	09:46:48
383	David Winkett	Male	09:46:52
384	Paul Ridpath	Male	09:48:17
385	Thomas Hume	Male	09:48:23
386	Andrew Marrison	Male	09:49:09
387	Tom Potter	Male	09:49:09
388	Jonathan Bentley	Male	09:49:16
389	Tim Coates	Male	09:52:07
390	James Lee	Male	09:52:36
391	Ian Pace	Male	09:53:03
392	David Cuthill	Male	09:54:22
393	Simon Cuthill	Male	09:54:22
394	Andrew Griffin	Male	09:54:23
395	Richard Williams	Male	09:54:25
396	Andy Redpath	Male	09:54:30
397	Andy Sobek	Male	09:56:08
398	Christopher Wesley	Male	09:56:10
399	Chris Ewbank	Male	09:57:48
400	Stewart Gardner	Male	09:57:48

401	Jonathan Boulton	Male	09:58:44
402	Calvin Cullum	Male	09:58:46
403	Mark Tanner	Male	10:00:19
404	Nicola Deal	Female	10:01:26
405	Mark Deal	Male	10:01:31
406	John Lamb	Male	10:02:40
407	Steve Lazenby	Male	10:02:52
408	Yonas Yohannes	Male	10:03:23
409	Dave Pollard	Male	10:03:31
410	Chris Coward	Male	10:04:37
411	Naomi Trunks	Female	10:04:38
412	Andrew Brocklehurst	Male	10:04:44
413	Alan Margrave	Male	10:05:05
414	Peter Binks	Male	10:05:28
415	David Hammond	Male	10:05:29
416	Samantha Rigby	Female	10:05:31
417	James Mortlock	Male	10:07:23
418	Dana Campbell	Female	10:07:52
419	Mark Knights	Male	10:08:20
420	David Mortlock	Male	10:08:27
421	Chris Walker	Male	10:08:45
422	Murray Gibb	Male	10:08:48
423	Richard Nicholson	Male	10:08:56
424	David Hardy	Male	10:09:43
425	Mark Irving	Male	10:09:44
426	Christopher Hammond	Male	10:09:56
427	Jonathan Brierley	Male	10:10:09
428	Elaine Brierley	Female	10:10:12
429	Mark Heptonstall	Male	10:12:52
430	Andrew Middleton	Male	10:13:38
431	Ian Mcintyre	Male	10:13:38
432	Alex Pickard	Male	10:16:05
433	Michael Shaw	Male	10:16:05
434	Arron Owen	Male	10:16:20
435	John Storrow	Male	10:16:24
436	Leigh Graham	Male	10:17:25
437	William Allingham	Male	10:18:16
438	Steve Blackett	Male	10:18:18
439	Richard Takan	Male	10:18:19
440	Matthew Hollingsworth	Male	10:18:23
441	Charles Warburton	Male	10:18:30
442	Timothy Lloyd	Male	10:18:30
443	Jonathan Dunn	Male	10:18:31
444	Michael Taylor	Male	10:18:31
445	Kerry Twinn	Male	10:20:15
446	Paul Chumas	Male	10:24:36
447	Sean Knott	Male	10:24:41
448	Nicholas Wallen	Male	10:24:42
449	Kevin Jackson	Male	10:26:01
450	Oliver Jackson	Male	10:26:03

451	Simon Richardson	Male	10:26:05
452	Kenneth Michie	Male	10:28:11
453	Alec Russell	Male	10:28:15
454	Matthew Palmer	Male	10:28:18
455	Mark Whiting	Male	10:29:15
456	Mark Atkin	Male	10:29:17
457	David Brennan	Male	10:30:17
458	Alan Russell	Male	10:30:18
459	Andy Whiteley	Male	10:30:20
460	Andrew Macrae	Male	10:32:54
461	Julie Davis	Female	10:32:54
462	Anthony Delaney	Male	10:34:34
463	Alex Smith	Male	10:35:02
464	Jason Winter	Male	10:35:02
465	Christopher Waterhouse	Male	10:36:09
466	Richard Phillips	Male	10:36:10
467	Jennie Boyle	Female	10:38:45
468	Jamie Forster	Male	10:39:51
469	Angela Forster	Female	10:39:52
470	Tom Broom	Male	10:40:29
471	Anita Holender	Female	10:44:04
472	Benjamin Crawshaw	Male	10:44:04
473	James Mcgrath	Male	10:47:58
474	Natalia Karlina	Female	10:47:59
475	Graham Lambert	Male	10:48:36
476	Matthew Cheng	Male	10:49:23
477	Stephen Gatland	Male	10:49:51
478	Fredrik Granlund	Male	10:50:37
479	James Pocock	Male	10:50:38
480	Ian Kirkby	Male	10:51:49
481	Matthew Oxley	Male	10:52:18
482	Sarah Seeley	Female	10:59:42
483	Ian Lawrence	Male	10:59:44
484	Simon Thompson	Male	10:59:44
485	Paul Cook	Male	10:59:48
486	Jason Koczur	Male	11:00:39
487	Jamie Scott	Male	11:00:50
488	Stephen Flood	Male	11:00:53
489	Adrian Jay	Male	11:03:08
490	Chris Norton	Male	11:12:42
491	Paul Gagan	Male	11:27:17
492	Stuart Mills	Male	11:29:30
493	Stephen Griffiths	Male	11:35:57
494	Kejal Bhuva	Male	11:41:51
495	Robert Melton	Male	11:52:06
496	John Kirk	Male	12:07:46

Photos: Struggle Dales