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SENIORS
A/B
Grade H/cap, A 34 kms, B 32kms.
1
Todd Sinclair, 48.42
2
Michael Cori
3
Aaron Castles
Liam
Kelly (First A Grader home)
C
Grade, 30kms
1
Brad Lane, 50.21
2
Peter McRorie
3
Shaun Ballesty
D
Grade, 20kms
1
Peter Davison, 37.13
2
David Jenkins-Flint
3
Ron Sproule
E
Grade, 16kms
1
Peter Bolan, 32.48
2
Norman Jew
3
Ken Woodhouse
JUNIORS
A
Grade 12km Team Time Trail
1
Robert Cater, 18.50
1
Chris Jenkins, 18.50
B
Grade 12km Team Time Trail
1
Keegan Aitchison, 22.04
1
Chris Young, 22.04
1
Luke Cridland, 22.04
A
Grade 4km Scratch Race
1
Chris Jenkins
2
Robert Cater
3
Luke
Cridland
B
Grade 2km Time Trial
1
Thomas Murdoch, 3.43
2
Thom Richards, 3.50
2
Andrew
Young, 3.50
4
Jono Cridland, 3.52
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REPORT
The warm weather of late took a bit of a holiday and rain clouds
hovered menacingly above. This did not deter the intrepid Heffron
Park stalwarts however who are forever ready to endure the sudden
climactic changes so typical of our criterium circuit, where the
wind seems to blow twice as strong as everywhere else all year
round. Spectators were not concerned however because of the
magnificent trees lining the edge of the criterium circuit. Those
trees to which our Publicity Officer and regular columnist, Tony Horneman
so often passionately praises for providing comforting shade to
spectators from the sun, stood ready to reciprocally provide shelter
from the elements in the event that those ominous cumulous nimbi saw fit
to precipitate
upon us.
Racing
was, as always, exiting. A Graders Stewart Campbell, Liam Kelly and Peter Reid worked
hard to gain back the one lap start that they gave to B Grade.
Although they gave it everything they had they were only able to claw back
2 minutes and as such were 1 minute behind on the bell lap. There were
plenty of attacks in B grade which kept the pace extremely high and made
it that bit harder for A grade to bridge the gap. Todd
Sinclair was able to get a bit of a break on the B grade bunch and cruised
home for a comfortable win. The minor placings were fought out over
an exiting sprint finish with Michael Cori just piping Aaron Castles into
3rd place. First A grader home was Liam Kelly with Stewart Campbell
right on his wheel. The average speed of B grade was quite fast at
39.8 kph and even though the 3 A grade riders were able to work well
together and achieve an average speed of 41.5kph, it was just not enough
to catch the fast charging B graders.
Nineteen riders lined up for the C Grade 30km race.
The average speed was just in excess of 36kph. The final sprint into a southerly breeze was hotly contested, with
Randwick Botany rider Shaun Ballesty leading out the final sprint.
Shaun started to die just towards the end allowing Brad Lane with a well
timed sprint to just come over the top of Shaun. So too did Peter
McRorie with Shaun holding on for third spot.
In an exciting D Grade sprint finish, Peter Davison was just too
strong for junior rider David Jenkins-Flint. All that track training
that Peter has been doing is obviously paying off. David held on for
second place with Ron Sproule coming in third.
Club Junior Development Officer Peter Zala conducted some
interesting events
for the 16 junior riders including a team time trial event and 4
individual 1 lap time trials with short rest period between them.
The interesting aspect that was that many of the juniors did their fastest
time on the 4th run. The fastest time of the B Grade riders was recorded
by Thomas Murdoch. Thomas recorded his fastest time on his third
run. Second fastest time of 3min 50 sec was recorded by Thom
Richards. Thom recorded his fastest time equally on his first and
final run with the second and third runs being slightly
slower.
Randwick Botany Cycling Club conducts club racing every Saturday at
Heffron Park, Maroubra NSW. Juniors
start at 1.30pm and Seniors 2.30pm.
For more information please contact the club secretary Helen Vella
on 02 9667 3307.
Race report prepared by:
John
Buckton
Webmaster/Club President
Randwick Botany Cycling Club
president@randwickbotanycc.com
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