Fifteen Stortford club members raced in the final event of the 2025-26 Winter Series. The weather was damp and overcast but not cold for the time of year. The team secured 4 silver medals and 8 bronzes, and was placed third overall (84 points) behind Chelmsford CC (100) and Leighton Buzzard CC (92).

8 miles:
K2 Men - Rich Winstanley & Jamie Winstanley 3rd (1:04:09)
K2 Mixed - Ben Tubby & Kerry Tubby 3rd (1:16:36), Dave Cayford & Jacque Cayford 5th (1:33:29)

K2 Ladies - Kerstin Queeney & Catherine Shirley [EAL] 2nd (1:16:54)
K1 Senior Men - Joe Fitzpatrick 2nd (1:18:07, Jamie Bond 3rd (1:26:18)
K1 Vet Men - Robert Gough 6th (1:25:55)
K1 Vet Ladies - Zoe Norford 2nd (1:30:39)
K1 u18 Men - Eddie Kirtland 2nd (1:18:01)

See

• Full race results and series results (FRA website)
  
• Simplified results on the MRC website
  
• WS League table 
  
• Photos (Angela's Google album)

Over the course of the series, 31 BSCC members took part in at least one race. Nobody made it to all six races, but Petr and Ben competed in 5. 

BSCC did not make it onto the top three teams this year, which were Chelmsford CC (60 points), Leighton Buzzard CC (47) and Cambridge CC (45). Stortford ended the season with 44 points.

BSCC did win The Dick Grieve Trophy, which is based on a separate league table calculated exclusively on the the points won by unranked juniors (i.e. Div 9 and below), thanks to a long-standing rule that the trophy cannot go to the club which wins the overall cup. Therefore, although Chelmsford won 46 DG points, the cup goes to Bishops Stortford (42 points).

The other club cup in the WS - the Bob Porter Trophy  - goes to the club with the greatest participation in the under 12s classes across the series. Stortford were second (11 seats taken by under-12 across the series), behind Chelmsford CC (14).

Given the recent weather conditions it was not entirely surprising that it was only the most dedicated Stortford racers who elected to take part in the penultimate Winter Series race at Chelmsford, and this number was reduced further by several members falling ill.

Even so, the conditions in the narrow channel through the town were extremely choppy, with a tight turn at the far end. 

The day naturally went to Chelmsford CC who made up the vast majority of the competitors (100 points), followed by Cambridge CC 2nd (58) and Leighton Buzzard CC 3rd (55).

Petr is now guaranteed to win the C1 advanced trophy, while the Tubbys and Summer are both level-pegging with their respective rivals for the Mixed K2 and u12 Girls trophies.

See

• Full race results (FRA website)
• League table 
• Photos in Angela's Google album