Tejvan Pettinger

Cyclinguphill.com is the cycling website of Tejvan Pettinger.

• 2013 – National Hill Climb Champion
• 2016 – 2nd National 12 hour time trial (284 miles)
• 2014 – 3rd national 100 mile TT
• 2015 – 7th British Time Trial Championship

Snake Pass, 2013. Photo Courtesy Weaver Valley CC.

Life

I went to Bradford Grammar School and then Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University where I read PPE. These days I work as a very part-time economics teacher. My main income comes from a motley collection of websites and blogs. I have ones on:

• www.economicshelp.org
• www.biographyonline.net

I have a personal site tejvan.co.uk but don’t put much there. I have also worked on:

• Self Improvement Blog – articles on spirituality and self-improvement
• Poetseers.org – Selections of spiritual and illuming poetry

Cycling Career

I started cycling aged 14, riding for Otley CC. See blog on the traditional Sunday Club run. However, apart from the very occasional race, I didn’t start racing until 2004, when I entered my first open time trial. I was a member of Oxford University CC during the late 1990s.

My main contribution was to be the club Treasurer and marshalling the Varsity 25, where Michael Hutchinson beat everyone by 5 minutes and gave Cambridge University CC the win.

I think I did one or two 10 mile TT in this university period, but I don’t remember how I did. I was inspired by the great Jim Henderson (5 times national hill climb champion). I only remember him shooting off up the road on a hill to Stow on the Wold on a club run.

After an illness, and a few years of doing nothing. I dabbled in running. But, a knee injury put paid to that. In 2003, I started to go out on my bike again, and in 2004 started doing a few races. In 2005, I did quite a lot. But, 2006-09 were fairly quite years. Since 2010, I’ve been able to devote more time to cycling.

I’m a second claim member of Oxonian CC, and race for Sri Chinmoy Cycling Team.

Assorted Palmeres

• 1st National hill climb – 2013
• 2nd National 12 hour TT – 2016
• 3rd National 100 mile TT – 2014

2005

• 4th  National 100 mile TT championship

2006

• 7th National Hill climb

2007

• 7th National Hill climb

2010

• 4th  National hill climb

2011

• 5th National hill climb

2013

• 1st National hill climb championship
• 5th National 100 mile TT
• 9th National 50 mile TT Championship
• 1st Buxton Mountain TT
• List of results and highlights from 2013

2014

• 4th National 50 mile TT
• 3rd National 100 mile TT
• 4th National HC TT

Open events 31 – 1st place = 17, 2nd place = 9, 3rd place = 3

2015

• 7th British Time Trial Championship
• 7th National 100 mile TT
• 6th National hill climb championship
• Open events 30– 1st place = 11, 2nd place  = 9, 3rd place = 5

2015

• 2nd National 12 hour time trial championship

1st place in Open Hill Climbs

• 1993 – 0 out of 2
• 1994 – 0 out of 1
• 2004  – 1 out of 9
• 2005 – 1 out of 9
• 2006 – 1 out of 4
• 2007 – 1 out of 2
• 2008 – 1 out of 2
• 2009 – 2 out of 5 (1* CR)
• 2010 – 7 / 10 (1* CR)
• 2011 –  10 / 11 (3* CR)
• 2012 – 11/ 13 (5 * CR)
• 2013 – 12/13 (7 * CR)
• 2014 – 14/17 (8* CR)
• 2015 – 5/12 (1* CR)
• 2016 – 1/5
• 2017 – 0/1

Total hill climbs

• 67 wins out of 116 hill climbs

59/76 (between 2010 and 2015)

(note: This is counting individual hill climb stage as separate, e.g Otley CC hill climb has 2 stages, if I win both stages that counts as 2)

Consecutive wins

Between 12 October 2013 and 15 October 2014, I won 13 consecutive open hill cilmb events (which is 16 consecutive hill climb stages. Some opens had multiple stages)

In 2011, I won 10 consecutive hill climbs, before finishing 5th in National champs.

25 Course records

News Articles

• Famous Last words – Cycling Weekly 2012
• Storming up the Stang.pdf – Cycling Weekly Oct 31st 2013.
• Return ascender – Cycling Weekly Oct 2014
• Uphill Struggle – Oxford Today 27 November, 2013
• Velo UK – Interview October 2013

National Hill Climb Championships

• 2005 – 11th –  The Rake, Lancashire. Winner – Ben Greenwood
• 2006  – 7th – Devon.  Winner – James Dobbin.
• 2007  –  7th  – Cheddar Gorge. Winner –  James Dobbin.
• 2008 – 14th – Matlock, Derbyshire. – Winner – Matt Clinton
• 2009  – 12th – Halifax – Pea Royd Lane — Winner – Dan Fleeman
• 2010 – 4th – Dovers Hill, Gloucestershire – Winner – Dan Fleeman
• 2011  – 5th  – Long Hill, Buxton. Winner – Gunnar Gronlund
• 2012 – 12th – Rake – winner – Jack Puller
• 2013 – 1st – The Stang – Ferryhill Wheelers – winner – T.Pettinger
• 2014 – 4th – Pea Royd Lane – winner Dan Evans
• 2015 – 6th – Jackson Bridge – winner Richard Bussell.

Personal Bests

• 10 miles – 00:19:02 (10/08/13) V718 – winner M.Hutchinson 18.30 – 31.5 mph
• 25 miles – 49:11 (14/08/11) H25/8 – winner Me (results) – average speed 30.2 mph
• 50 miles – 1.39.36 (28/06/14) B50/6 (BDCA) – winner. M.Bottrill 1.35 – average speed 30.1 mph
• 100 miles – 3:34:17 (22/06/14) E2/100 – ECCA 100 – winner me – average speed – 28.0 mph
• 12 hour – 284 miles (26/06/16) R Welsh course

Other fast times (to help me with CTT entries)

2014

• 10 miles – 00:19:24 – 14/06/14 – Oxford City H10/181
• 25 miles – 00:51:59 – 16/08/14 – North Hampshire 1st. H25/8
• 50 miles – 1.39.36 (28/06/14) – B50/6 (BDCA) – winner. M.Bottrill 1.35 – average speed 30.1 mph (CTT)
  
• 100 miles – 3:34:19 (22/06/14) – E2/100 – ECCA 100 – winner me – average speed – 28.0 mph (CTT)
  

2015

• 10 miles – 00:19:49 – 06/06/15 – North Hampshire RC H10/8
• 25 miles – 00:50:48 – 15/08/15 – North Hampshire RC H25/8
• 50 miles – 01:42:18 – 17/07/15 – Shaftesbury RC E2/50C
• 100 miles – 03:39:50 – 05/07/15 – National 100 mile TT

Open Events career

2004-2016

302 events

• 1st = 123
• 2nd = 61
• 3rd = 35

Stats

• Height: 6 ft 3 (191 cm)
• weight: 61kg
• max 5 min power about: 450 watts

Other facts

I’m a member of the Oxford Sri Chinmoy Centre, and give meditation classes in Oxford.

I’m also an occasional photographer, and have a photography blog of Oxford – Photo Blog – Tejvan

I featured in A Corinthian Endeavour by Paul Jones

Books

• One book I wrote is available at Amazon. Happiness will follow you by Tejvan Pettinger.
• Cracking Economics
• I also wrote a short book about my experiences as a student of Sri Chinmoy.

Contact email

Related

• Course records