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Club Races
Meg Leads Limit to the
Line
Concongella - Joel South
Handicap
Sunday 20th February 2011
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Meg
Parnaby |
When working out the handicaps, a
slight mathematical slip up by the handicapper gave
the limit riders an unintended advantage last Sunday,
resulting in the limit riders remaining unsighted by
the back end of the field.
The race was held over the
fairly tough 49 kilometre Concongella/Joel South course,
with riders turning at Joel Joel to return along the
Landsborough Road. Rolling hills going out, rollings
hills coming back, with a flat open section in the
middle.
Visiting Eureka rider Shirley Hetherington
set off from 22 minutes, followed 2 minutes later by
Meg Parnaby, Peter Mayo and Damien Rabl. These three
riders picked up Hetherington about 15 kilometres later,
with all riders then working hard to hold off the chasing
groups.
Eleven minute riders Andy Reid and
Geoff Richards worked very hard to reel in the limit
riders, but they still remained a distant speck. However,
they managed to hold off the 3 minute riders Drew Heard,
Daryl Elliott, Crystal Wemyss and Peter Parnaby by
over a minute at the finish.
Meg Parnaby went on to
take out the race from Peter Mayo, with Damien Rabl
third.
The 11 minute riders came in quite
some time later (due to the afore mentioned miscalculation),
followed by the 3 minute riders, with scratch riders
Rod Hetherington, Frank Kean, Peter Weymss and Sean
Prins making up 2 and a half minutes on the 3 minute
riders, to finish close behind them.
Peter Wemyss took
out the fastest race time of 1 hour and 19 minutes,
an average speed of 37.2kph.
Race Averages
22 minute rider
- 31.45 kph
20 minute riders - 32.1kph
11 minute riders
- 33.5kph
3 minute riders - 36.1kph
Scratch riders
- 37.2kph
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