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SENIORS

A/B Grade, 36km 

C Grade, 28km 

D Grade, 20km 

E Grade, 16km 

F Grade, 16km 

JUNIORS

Juniors results click here

THANK YOU:

Thanks to Commissaire Helen Vella & Joanne Buckton.  Thanks to our marshals  Brian Weetman, Stephanie Matthews, Andy Hall & Patrick Naughton.   Thanks to Fred Vella for deploying and retrieving all the safety equipment and for manning the canteen.  Thanks to Anna Fortuna for manning the canteen.  Thanks to Leeann Emery for being our First Aid Officer.

CLUB SPONSORS

Randwick Botany Cycling Club is proudly sponsored by FRF Couriers, parent company of Excelpro.  Excelpro is the distributor of products including Argon 18 bicycles,  Colnago bicycles, 3T cycling assessories, Parentini clothing and Speedplay pedals.  Other sponsors include Carroll & O'Dea Lawyers,  Tenpoint, Vantage Freight, Sydney Morning Herald, Cheeky Monkey Cycle Company Clovelly Road Centennial Park, DS Labels – Marrackville.

REPORT 

	With many of RBCC's riders having raced at the Ride for Life open at Centennial Park, the fields in the afternoon was quite reduced.  Left Richard "Lance" Westmoreland leads the A/B bunch down the start/finish straight of Heffron Park.
	Pat "paddy" Jones leaves his run a touch too late in the A/B sprint and is narrowly beaten home by Hugh Kimber of Peleton Sports
	Karl Bellamy, hams it up for the camera in the A/B grade race.  Rex Wilson in third wheel seems to be getting fitter and fitter every week.
	Rick Jordan and another rider escaped early in C grade and spent most of the race working together in an attempt to stay away from the chasing C grade peleton.  Rick told me after the race that he was no sprinter and if he was to taste victory it would have to come by way of an escape.
	The bad news for Rick however was that; "Meanwhile back at the peleton", RBCC's "Queen of Heffron" and current leader of the NSW Roadwoman of the year, Laura Bortoluzzi was driving the bunch along and all the male chauvinists in the bunch were happy to let her do the work
	Here's the escapees with Rick out of the saddle and driving over "The Pimple" in a last ditch effort to stave off inevitable capture by the chasing C grade peleton.
	Pandemonium in the C grade sprint as we see several riders go down firstly on the left hand of the track then as I click this shot (you will have to click on the image and enlarge it to see), more riders go tumbling over on the right hand side of the track.  Luckily the falls seemed to be on the extremities of both sides of the track so the riders largely tumbled on grass and sand.  Luckily the injuries were largely restricted to pride.
	Now if we zoom in a millisecond prior to the photo above, we can see the skills of Shaun Ballesty who is in fact leading the sprint at this point.  Shaun has apparently avoided both the riders tumbling to his left, gone out over the grass and through the dirt, come back onto the track in a totally  aerodynamic position head tucked low and is at this point leading the race.  Only problem is that he has lost the engine with both his feet out of the pedals.  Bad luck Shaun or should I say bit of good luck.
	Sorry D grade no action shots of you.  Left an acton shot of E/F grade and Cannibal Clothing please take note of the winner of this grade.  When you made up the 4XL jersey for us and commented that you couldn't believe there was a cyclist that big, please let me introduce you to the winner of this race, Andrew Pike.  Andrew is a "Man Mountain" with a 48" chest in the old scale and we are going to need you to knock up a 5XL or two as he is actually bigger than the last guy you made the 4XL for !! For your information just about all the big men in F grade take 3XL and anyone smaller than that get sand kicked in their faces.

MORE INFORMATION

Randwick Botany Cycling Club conducts racing at Heffron Park, Maroubra NSW each Saturday throughout the year. Juniors start at 12.30pm. Seniors D, E & F Grades start at 2.00pm and A, B & C grade at 3pm. For more information please contact the club secretary Helen Vella on 02 9667 3307 or email: secretary@randwickbotanycc.com

Web page layout & editing by: John Buckton

Podium Photos by: John Buckton

Report by John Buckton

Contact:
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John:   webmaster@randwickbotanycc.com