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Hume Vet's 48 km Handicap

21/8/2011

 
Today was my day to get on the bike for some racing. I am a member of the Hume Veteran's Cycling Club and every second Sunday they hold their races. Today's event was a 48 km handicap starting at Benalla heading out to Tatong turning right and heading across until Samaria road then coming back towards Benalla finishing near the Samaria/Kilfeera Rds intersection.


There were 13 riders competing and I was in the second group at 8 mins with block behind us at 3 mins and then scratch.
In handicap races it's pretty well down to business right from the start doing rolling turns with your group and hoping you can catch the riders in front of you whilst not being caught yourselves by the following groups. It was my second race of the season and I found the race hard going. We caught limit (the first group) with just a few km's left to go and we thought it may be possible to stay out in front. We new the faster groups were coming and could see them in the distance but we still had a decent gap. Well, we did have, but we were swallowed up with about 500 metres left to ride and had to fight out the sprint with the faster riders. The victory went to John (The missile) Myles who packs a pretty fast sprint and I reckon he might find himself with the scratch riders next race (sorry John), well not really.

1st. John Myles 1h 17m 16 sec
2nd. Stephen O'Brien
3rd. Russell Edwards
4th. Tony Reeckman ( I won my entry fee back)

Fastest time. Geoff Morley 1h 14m 16 sec

   
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John(The Missile) Myles receives the winners cash from Club President Ashley O'Farrell
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The ride data from my Ibike pro. I think my HR monitor was having a spasm or maybe it was my heart but I don't think it would go to 243 max.

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