Club Races
Rathgeber
Takes Out Second Win
Noradjuha 50km
Handicap - Sunday
21st June 2009
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Tony
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Grampians
Vets limit riders Tony Rathgeber, Meg Parnaby and
John McIntyre set a cracking pace to take out the
Horsham Noradjuha 50km handicap last Sunday.
Starting
with an eight and a half minute lead over the next
bunch, the trio made the most of the light tail wind
out to Noradjuha to hold a 5 minute lead at
the half way point over the 4 minute riders Tony
Lloyd, Tom Eldridge, Peter Mayo and Gerard O’Brien.
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John,
Tony and Meg |
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With
8km to go, the limit riders still had a safe buffer
of 2 and half minutes over the 4 minute riders, and
won comfortably, with Tony Rathgeber taking out the
sprint from Meg Parnaby and John McIntyre.
Further
back the scratch riders Chris Scott, Leon Gibson, Alan
Barnett and Daryl Elliott looked like they were on
track to catch the 4 minute riders, having reduced
their lead to 2 minutes at the half way point.
However,
they faded over the closing stages to finish more
than a minute behind them.
Chris Scott
recorded the fastest time of the day of 1 hour 24
minutes.
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