Saturday's race at Dookie was a combine between Shepparton and Wangaratta Cycling club. The race was a 52 km handicap that included 3 laps of a testing course of rolling hills. There were 41 starters which is a pretty good turnout for a club event. On arrival and payment of entry fee the most important thing to find out is what group you'll be riding in. I knew some of the guys in my group and it was with some interest I note Chris Howard would be joining us off limit. Very interesting indeed.
One thing about handicap racing is that it's going to be hard work and Saturday was to be no exception. We started hard and kept it going, Chris Howard doing big turns up the hills and the rest of us contributing where possible.The main contributors to the pace making as I saw it, which was pretty much staring at my head stem, were Chris Howard,Felicity Wardlaw and myself with the rest of the group getting involved on the long flat and downhill sections.
I finally exploded on the last lap at the base of the steepest climb on the course with my legs refusing to push me up the hill no matter how hard I tried to persuade them otherwise, if I could only just make it over the top with the group I could hang on to the finish. Alas this was not to be and when I finally crawled over the summit (makes it sound like a mountain) I could see my little peloton disappearing into the distance. Bugger, one turn on the front to many,must remember that next time.
As I rolled back toward Dookie the 15 minute group blasted past hoping to catch my escaping limit buddies. However it was to be the "Day of the Limit" rider and the first 5 places went to the limit group. I was disappointed that Chris Howard had to settle for second after doing most of the pace making(and I was also cursing him from keeping the pace so high I exploded) only to be jumped on the line by a Shepparton rider who arguably had "sat on" for big chunks of the race. That's racing however.
Results:
Fastest Time:
Stephen Fairless 1.10.50
1st Peter McClelland 1.25.40
2nd Chris Howard
3rd Colin Stokes
4th Felicity Wardlaw
5th Stephen O’Brien
6th Andrew Doyle 1.28.01
7th Gavin Frawley
8th Laurie Lyster
9th Matthew Grealy
10th Gifford Crossthwaite
11th A Friend
12th D Devereux
13th Geoff Stevenson
14th Tomarsh Loki 1.29.04
15th Tony Reekman 1.29.30
16th Stephen Fairless 1.30.50
17th Mark Zito
18th Tully Lyster
19th Travis Lindhe
20th Christian McDonald
21st Mark Cook
22nd Raymond Jarratt
*these following riders were all in the bunch with 16th thru 22nd, unsure of exact order:
Ashley Baines
James Boal
Trent Stevenson
James Fox
J Sherlock
T Ryan
Jake Morgan
30th Mark White 1.31.30
31st M Thompson
32nd L Moore
33rd Edward Dalle Nogare
34th Brad Scott 1.33.02
35th G Leed
36th Travis Edwards
37th Paul Lane 1.35.36
38th T Hoare 1.40.00 +
Rhys Lyster DNF
Dean Robinson DNF
One thing about handicap racing is that it's going to be hard work and Saturday was to be no exception. We started hard and kept it going, Chris Howard doing big turns up the hills and the rest of us contributing where possible.The main contributors to the pace making as I saw it, which was pretty much staring at my head stem, were Chris Howard,Felicity Wardlaw and myself with the rest of the group getting involved on the long flat and downhill sections.
I finally exploded on the last lap at the base of the steepest climb on the course with my legs refusing to push me up the hill no matter how hard I tried to persuade them otherwise, if I could only just make it over the top with the group I could hang on to the finish. Alas this was not to be and when I finally crawled over the summit (makes it sound like a mountain) I could see my little peloton disappearing into the distance. Bugger, one turn on the front to many,must remember that next time.
As I rolled back toward Dookie the 15 minute group blasted past hoping to catch my escaping limit buddies. However it was to be the "Day of the Limit" rider and the first 5 places went to the limit group. I was disappointed that Chris Howard had to settle for second after doing most of the pace making(and I was also cursing him from keeping the pace so high I exploded) only to be jumped on the line by a Shepparton rider who arguably had "sat on" for big chunks of the race. That's racing however.
Fastest Time:
Stephen Fairless 1.10.50
1st Peter McClelland 1.25.40
2nd Chris Howard
3rd Colin Stokes
4th Felicity Wardlaw
5th Stephen O’Brien
6th Andrew Doyle 1.28.01
7th Gavin Frawley
8th Laurie Lyster
9th Matthew Grealy
10th Gifford Crossthwaite
11th A Friend
12th D Devereux
13th Geoff Stevenson
14th Tomarsh Loki 1.29.04
15th Tony Reekman 1.29.30
16th Stephen Fairless 1.30.50
17th Mark Zito
18th Tully Lyster
19th Travis Lindhe
20th Christian McDonald
21st Mark Cook
22nd Raymond Jarratt
*these following riders were all in the bunch with 16th thru 22nd, unsure of exact order:
Ashley Baines
James Boal
Trent Stevenson
James Fox
J Sherlock
T Ryan
Jake Morgan
30th Mark White 1.31.30
31st M Thompson
32nd L Moore
33rd Edward Dalle Nogare
34th Brad Scott 1.33.02
35th G Leed
36th Travis Edwards
37th Paul Lane 1.35.36
38th T Hoare 1.40.00 +
Rhys Lyster DNF
Dean Robinson DNF
Ashley Baines and Chris Howard make last minute preparations before the race
Tully and Rhys Lyster looking resplendent in there West End kits.
Gav Frawley pinning on his race number
Tully ready to go.
Laurie Lyster getting ready to race
Chris Howard collects the loot for coming second
Colin Stokes collects his prize money for 3rd
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