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Evans Cycles - Surrey League 5 Day - NE
UK, August 13-17, 2004
Stage 1 - August 13: Chobham Common,, 101 miles
Keneally gets the Munster Munch
By Simon Melville/Surrey Cycle Racing League
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Day one of Britain's longest bicycle race saw the 95 riders complete the stage at an average speed of almost 26mph. This first stage, of 101 miles was set in the country lanes around Chobham Common in west Surrey.
An early break by Adrian Lansley (Pedalon.co.uk), and Duncan Urqhart and Paul Butler of Prestige VC was soon joined by a larger group which eventually numbered around 18 riders. This larger group extended the gap from the main bunch to some two minutes, although this came down to around 90 seconds by the end of the race as the front group splintered and attacks came from the following group.
The stage was eventually won by Irishman, Brian Keneally of Team Munster, closely followed by Duncan Urqhart (Prestige VC) and Neil Coleman (Alcan Bianchi).
This stage was essentially flat, with just one small hill for the climbers to battle over but even this was enough to see a number of riders fall off the back of the race. Tomorrow's stage at Newdigate, to the south east of Crawley, has more hills through rolling Surrey countryside but is nevertheless another very fast circuit. The climbers must wait until Sunday to see the first of the major ascents when they get to the South Downs at Goodwood.
Results
1 Brian Keneally (Team Munster E) 4.00.51 2 Duncan Urqhart (Prestige VC E) 3 Neil Coleman (Alcan Bianchi E) 0.02 4 Shaun Snodden (Recycling.co.uk E) 5 Paul Griffin (Recycling.co.uk E) 6 Antony Malaczlk (Wales E) 7 Rob Partridge (Wales 1) 8 Martin Ford (E) 9 Paul Helion (Team Munster E) 10 Sam Gardner (Evans Cycles RT 1) 0.42 11 Gary Dodd (Sigma Sport E) 1.23 12 Richard Whitehorn (Glendene CC E) 13 Vincent Gleeson (Team Munster E) 14 Gareth Jones (Energy Cycles 1) 15 Andrew Young (Python RT E) 16 Jon Ibbotson (Pacific Racing E) 17 Ryan O'Connor (Ballymena RC E) 18 Chris McNamara (Team Synergy 2) 19 Martin Smith (Team Milton Keynes E) 20 James Louter (In Gear RT E) 21 Adrian Bird (Artic Shorter Roch E) 22 Andrew Rigg (Prestige VC E) 23 John Dempsey (Team Munster E) 24= James Flanagan (Central Division E) 24= Andrew Eagles (Dulwich Paragon 2) 24= Greg Roche (Energy Cycles E) 24= Nick Kenwright (Energy Cycles E) 24= Richard Jones (Energy Cycles 2) 24= Daniel Duguid (Evans Cycles RT 2) 24= Micheal Cotty (Evans Cycles RT 1) 24= Justin Hoy (Evans Cycles RT E) 24= Jamie Newall (Evans Cycles RT 1) 24= Thomas Gardner (Glendene CC 1) 24= Gary Flint (In Gear RT E) 24= Dave Coulson (JE James Racing E) 24= Gareth Hewitt (JE James Racing E) 24= Sam Firby (Jersey/Isle of Man 2) 24= Andrew Roche (Jersey/Isle of Man E) 24= Christian Varley (Jersey/Isle of Man E) 24= Andrew Cook (Jersey/Isle of Man 2) 24= Chris Spence (Jersey/Isle of Man E) 24= Ian Black (Kingsnorth International 2) 24= Tim Dunford (Pacific Racing E) 24= Tony Kelly (Pacific Racing 1) 24= Steve Gowar (Pacific Racing 1V) 24= Stephen Bayliss (Pacific Racing E) 24= Danny Axford (Parrot Print RT E) 24= Roger Morgan (Parrot Print RT E) 24= Andy Lyons (Parrot Print RT E) 24= Guy Pearson (Pearson Cycles 1) 24= Dave Berkeley (Pearson Cycles E) 24= Dave Worthington (Prestige VC E) 24= Paul Butler (Prestige VC 1) 24= Duncan Stewart (Private 1) 24= Ben Greenwood (Recycling.co.uk E) 24= Ed Perry (SP Systems 1) 24= Simon Saunders (SP Systems 3) 24= Adam Thomson (Swindon RC 2) 24= Tim Barry (Team Munster E) 24= John Horgan (Team Munster E) 24= Eoin Concannon (Team Munster E) 24= Chris Doel (Team Quest E) 24= James Shaw (Team Synergy 2) 24= Simon McNamara (Team Synergy 2) 24= Henry Furniss (The London Firm 2) 24= Matt Melville (VC St Raphael E) 24= Jeffrey Capper (www.cyclestore.co 1) 24= Tim Wallis (Parrot Print RT E) 24= Dave Crowley (Port Talbot Wheelers E) 24= Alastair Kay (York Cycleworks E) 71 Chris Birch (Evans Cycles RT E) 72 Robert English (Private) 73 Jody Crawforth (Evans Cycles RT E) 74 Matthew Ellis (Saey-Deschart 1) 75 Rob Enslin (Prestige VC 2) 76 John Veness (Evans Cycles RT E) 77 Steve Dring (Parrot Print RT E) 78 Ed Graefe (Economic Energy 2) 79 Rowan Horner (VC St Raphael 1) 80 Alistair Cann (Jersey/Isle of Man 3) 81 Luke Myers (Team Axiom 1) 2.20 82 Adrian Lansley (Pedalon.co.uk E) 2.50 83 Colin Peerman (Private 3) 3.23 84 Gary Kristensen (Prestige VC 1) 11.33 85 Paul Dring (Parrot Print RT E) 86 Matt Spurgin (Evans Cycles RT 3) 87 Stuart Lemanski (E) 88 Philip Smith (Sotonia CC 2) 21.33 89 Matthew Talbot (Glendene CC 1) 31.33 90 Neil Linford (Relph VC Meudon 2) Points 1 Duncan Urqhart (Prestige VC E) 26 pts 2 Brian Keneally (Team Munster E) 15 3 Neil Coleman (Alcan Bianchi E) 12 4 Paul Butler (Prestige VC 1) 10 4 Jeffrey Capper (www.cyclestore.co 1) 10 6 Shaun Snodden (Recycling.co.uk E) 9 7 Paul Griffin (Recycling.co.uk E) 7 8 Rob Partridge (Wales 1) 5 9 Sam Gardner (Evans Cycles RT 1) 4 9 Adrian Lansley (Pedalon.co.uk E) 4 9 Paul Helion (Team Munster E) 4 12 Martin Ford (E) 3 13 Andy Lyons (Parrot Print RT E) 1 Mountains 1 Paul Griffin (Recycling.co.uk E) 14 pts 2 Jamie Newall (Evans Cycles RT 1) 13 3 Paul Butler (Prestige VC 1) 10 4 Adrian Lansley (Pedalon.co.uk E) 7 5 Duncan Urqhart (Prestige VC E) 3 6 Shaun Snodden (Recycling.co.uk E) 1
