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SENIORS
A Grade,
36km
52.38 (Av 41.5kph)
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1st |
Nathan Page |
RBCC |
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2nd |
John Baxter |
EASTS |
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3rd |
Robert Cater |
RBCC |
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4th |
David McHugh |
SYD |
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5th |
Matthew Lucas |
RBCC |
B Grade,
34km
52.52 (Av 39.5kph)
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1st |
Frank Fortuna |
RBCC |
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2nd |
Tim Rice |
SYD |
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3rd |
Karl Bellamy |
RBCC |
C Grade, 28km
45.3 (Av 37.7kph)
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1st |
Sturt King |
RBCC |
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2nd |
Luke Davison |
RBCC |
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3rd |
Laurence Robertson |
RBCC |
D Grade, 20km
34.56 (Av
34.7kph)
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1st |
Matthew Anderson |
LA |
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2nd |
Anthony Bailon |
RBCC |
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3rd |
Mark Burgess |
WV |
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4th |
David Lippman |
RBCC |
E Grade, 16km
29.51 (Av
32.5kph)
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1st |
John Lynch |
RBCC |
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2nd |
Tanya Bosch |
SYD |
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3rd |
Matthew Hynes |
RBCC |
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4th |
Leeann Emery |
RBCC |
F Grade, 14km
27.33 (Av
30.8kph)
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1st |
Ron Webster |
DH |
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2nd |
Olivia Brooks |
RBCC |
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3rd |
Noel Christensen |
RBCC |
JUNIORS
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THANK YOU:
Thanks to Commissaire
Helen Vella & Joanne Buckton.
Thanks to
Fred Vella for deploying and retrieving all the safety
equipment. Thanks to Anna Fortuna for manning the canteen. Thanks to
our Marshals Warwick McCalpine & Peter Heywood. 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,
Cinelli bicycles and accessories, 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
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Nathan Page did it again turning the A grade race into a
personal Individual Time Trial. Early in the race and Nathan
is out of the saddle driving over 'the pimple' whilst the
chasing A peleton can be seen in the distance to the rear.
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Next lap Matt Lucas made a valiant attempt to go across
the break but didn't quite make it and went back to the A
grade peleton. |
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It wasn't long before Nathan was going past the start
finish line and the others were not even in site. |
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Meanwhile, back at the peleton, the rest of A grade was
looking very stylish through the squircle. Left Matt Lucas
powers through "The Squircle" with a couple of Sydney boys
nipping at his heels. |
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Well Nathan was finished and half way through a victory
cuppa when the peleton sprint came around for the minor
placings. Second place was taken out by Easts rider
John Baxter. Fantastic to see Robbie Cater back at
Heffron and back into a bit of form with a fine third place
in A grade. Good one Robbie. |
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George Rohanna drives B grade over "The Pimple".
Interesting to see Tanya Newton a little further behind
racing B grade. Tanya is unbelievably fit at the
moment. Good on you Tanya. |
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B grade sprint and Frank Fortuna makes it look easy on
his brand new Argon 18 Gallium and I do mean brand new.
It was built Friday afternoon. Frank had a little ride
on it with me on Saturday morning around Centennial Park and
then out to La Perouse, and then he races it Sat afternoon
and easily wins B grade. Don't think that I am biased
or anything just because I am absolutely loving my brand new
Argon 18 monocoque carbon Gallium. By the way Argon 18
is a sponsor of our club so I can give them a plug. |
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Jim Gray and his brother Hugh turned up for the big
Masters race at 2pm. Unfortunately only he and his
brother turned up. So they stuck around till 3pm and
raced our normal afternoon graded scratch races. They both
seemed to enjoy C grade at Heffron Park anyway. |
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Rocky Fortuna gasps for air as he takes C grade over
"The Pimple". He didn't do any work the whole race and
then sees me taking photos and magically appears at the
front of the bunch next lap as it approaches my camera
location. |
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Dave Cramption was driving so hard that he had Rocky's
tongue hanging out. |
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At the end of the race the two "Very Close" friends
congratulated each other. |
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Stuart King wins the C grade sprint in his trademark
Australia Post jersey (soon to disappear as I sold him a
Randwick Botany/FRF jersey). Luke Davison who told Joanne at
the registration desk that he was too sick to ride B grade
was allowed to ride C by Joanne on the strict proviso that
he didn't win it. In an absolutely gob smacking
co-incidence he rolled in in second place. Come on
Luke, you should be riding A grade, not C ! If any of
you are ill or just getting over an illness, don't go asking
the girls if you can race a grade or two lower, don't
race!! Go and do some recovery kilometres and when you
are back to form race in your normal grade. |
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Paul Dimitriou, our D Grade workhorse, takes D grade
over "The Pimple" |
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E grade action and Tanya Bosche eventual 2nd place
getter leads eventual winner John Lynch over "The Pimple"
The bottom grades seemed much happier this week as we formed
a new grade, F Grade with a shuffling of riders between the
various grades. It appears to have had a great result
with all the grades demonstrating a measurable step between
them (around 2kph on average) and allowing for closer racing
between riders of similar ability. |
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F action and new member Olivia Brookes looks very
stylish in her first ever race as she gets out of the saddle
and drives over "The Pimple" with Trivia King Noel
Christensen close on her wheel. Further back is
Olivia's coach Karl Bellamy. Olivia scored a second place in
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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 Grade 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
Photos & Report by John Buckton
Contact:
Tony:
communications@randwickbotanycc.com
John:
webmaster@randwickbotanycc.com
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