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RBCC TEAM
IN SYDNEY GONG RIDE.
In all,
around 40 Randwick Botany Cycling Club members took part in this years
Sydney to the Gong Multiple Sclerosis Society charity ride.
Our official team of 33, 12 of whom were Junior riders as young as 11,
competed together assisting each other and staying together over the
entire distance. It was a fantastic day with the Junior Development
Officer and other seniors riding with the juniors and assisting them (even
pushing some of the younger ones up some of the hills). All managed the
distance and I rewarded each of them at the finish with a nice cold
Gatorade.
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Here'e the
team ready to go about 6.05am, just inside the Randwick gates of
Centennial Park. They then all rode together down to start at Moore Park
and got away after photos by MS Society about 6.30am.
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Here's the actual start
picture. I cropped and enlarged the one above to give it a bit of a
panaramic effect. After the boys and girls left Moore Park there is
a slight break in the pictures, about 91km in fact. So the following
ones will be the guys & girls coming in to the finish at
Wollongong.
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Everyone stayed together for 95% of the way but at some
point Scott Buckton decided that it must have been a race. We can't
get him to race on Saturdays but put him in a fun ride and he's
off. He must have convinced Nick Contogiannis to go with
him. There's Nick urging him on. They came in about 15 minutes ahead
of everyone else. Scott looked very stylish as he sprinted in big
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Here's our Junior
Development Officer dazzling us with his extraordinary bike handling
skills. I received reports that he also demonstrated to all how to
run into a 1metre tall orange plastic marker bollard and still remain
upright. Other skills included going into a 300 mm deep pothole and
not puncturing whilst poor Brad Playford went in directly behind him and
double pinch flatted. Good one Pete !!! |
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Here's Alan Abeni coming
in giving the photographer a little wave.
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Chris Weldon couldn't wait
to get to Wollongong. He loves those trains and was busting to get
to Wollongong train station for the ride home. |
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Here's David Jenkins-Flint
coming in. Good one David. Now you have 90kms on your training
schedule and it's only Sunday, the start of a new week. Couple more
training rides during the week and you will be killing them on Saturday. |
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Here's Nick Cater and
Belinda Angwin coming in together. It was great to see the bonding
between Senior and Junior club members. The ride was a fantastic
opportunity for the Juniors and Seniors to ride together in a social
atmosphere. |
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Here's our cheeky club
captain Mark Robertson, alias "the slapper" (you will have
to ask him), riding in with three of our junior riders, Chris Young,
Robbie Cater and Thomas Murdoch who was getting that little extra
aerodynamic advantage which isn't real good for photographers. |
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Here's Samantha Guille
coming in. This was a strange sight to me, Samantha coming in by
herself. She really must be just too fast for the guys.
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Another bonding
session. Scotty Callum rides in with junior rider Pita Vea.
Good one guys. |
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Richard "Trickie
Dickie" Jenkins looking very serious. Well I know it's a look
starting with "S". I'll call it, "Serious". |
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Here's the two
Chris's. Chris Jenkins and Chris White. Also in the frame is
little 11 year old Max Gueniev. Max looks a bit "s" like
Richard Jenkins above. The two Chris's however are fresh as daises
and treating this half as the warm up for the ride back to Sydney where
they lifted the pace and got into some serious riding. 200km for the
day is not a bad little ride guys. |
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Here's the finish.
Everyone made it and had a great day. Congratulations guys and
girls. We will do it even bigger and better next year.
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| Well that brings the Sydney to
Gong ride to a close for 2001. Thanks to everybody who supported the
ride and the club. Thanks to Helen & Fred Vella who came down to
fly the flag. Thanks to Richard Jenkins for the loan of his
camera. Hope the shots are not too bad as he didn't have much time
to tutor me on the finer details other than point and click.
Excellent job guys and girls !!!! |
