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Tuggeranong Vikings Cycling Club
Saturday July 21, 2007
66 riders across all grades turned out on a beautiful still clear winter's morning to tackle the Stromlo crit circuit in teams of three. The perfect weather saw some great team work and fast sprints for the primes. We had several newcomers to Canberra racing so a big welcome to them and we hope to see you at more races. Thanks very much to everyone who helped out - the whole morning went very smoothly and the running of the criterium as a teams event was hugely successful, with many introductions that wouldn't have otherwise had happened and the opportunity to put into action some team tactics.
A Grade men
A cautious A grade men's field started off the day with three teams sprinting for the points. The grade stayed together, without too much aggression shown except for during the three primes which were dominated by an in form Michael Matthews, riding for the Brumby's/Ride Shop team, who scored the maximum possible individual tally of 25 points. Graeme Allbon (Team A) and Michael Phelan (Team A minus) were the other consistent scorers, sharing the second and third places between them, but when a guy wins every sprint…what can you do?
B Grade Men
The B grade points were was dominated by the contrasting figures of Stephen Bomball (15 points) and Wes Garrett (10), who scored in each of the first sprints before launching a devastating attack on the field. Wes managed to hold on to second position from the looming peloton and secure second place for his team, Fuentes' Blood Bags. But it was Stephen who had the lungs and rode away for an impressive solo victory for team Slow Twitch.
C Grade Men/A Grade Women
The A grade women riders chose to join the men's C field to get a better race in. Two teams scored consistently in the sprints in this race with J for Jorge and V-Mobile using their team tactics to perfection in the intermediate primes. After the second prime, the race was blown to pieces by a break from Mitchell Lovelock-Faye (V-Mobile) and Daniel Green (Dave Osmond Fan Club). Daniel's team hadn't scored so well so far so a first place across the finish for double points was what they needed and what they got. But with Mitchell coming through in a strong second place, V-Mobile just secured a tie for first with J for Jorge (12 points), leaving the Dave Osmond Fan Club just one point shy on 11.
B Grade Women/D Grade Men
D Grade Men were joined by the B Grade women (with the girls outnumbering the guys!) to bring the field up to twenty riders. Belinda McCredie, in her first ever criterium, also fearlessly joined the grade, as the numbers were insufficient to run a separate Women's C grade. The pace was on early with a flying sprint for the 'secret' prime after just 3 minutes taking many by surprise. Two of the guys, Felix and Nik, were too strong, just edging out several of the girls for the first sprint after some early moves by the young and ambitious members of the NoNames. The pace eased up after that effort as everyone got their breath back again, although a few riders were off the back of the peloton by that stage and couldn't quite manage to get back on. The second prime came at the halfway point of the race and this time Caitlin held off the rest of the field to take the points from the men. The main bunch stayed together for the remainder of the race with no one successful at breaking away. A fast finish down the hill saw Felix, the sole member of his team; comfortably outsprint the rest of the field to take the double points and the overall win over the remaining teams.
JCs
Just two starters for the winter JCs event, 9 year old Jericho Genders-Dibden and his 5 year old brother Paul. Both boys rode really well in the chilly air, with Jericho setting a flying time for his ½ lap ITT, but Paul keeping something in reserve for his second ITT. Paul actually had a higher average speed for the longer race than he did for the shorter one! Well done boys.
Results
A grade 1 Brumbys Ride Shop (Brenden Savage, John Forrest, Michael Matthews) 29 pts 2 Team A (Alastair Loutit, Michael Phelan,Adam Pelan) 15 3 Team A minus (Graeme Allbon, Stuart Morgan, Sam Genge) 11 1 Michael Matthews 25 pts 2 Graeme Allbon 11 3 Michael Phelan 8 4 Alastair Loutit 6 5 Brenden Savage 2 6 John Forrest 2 7 Adam Pelan 1 8 Stuart Morgan 9 Sam Genge B grade 1 Slow Twitch (Dale Percival, Stephen Bomball, Cameron O’Neill) 26 pts 2 Fuentes Blood Bags (Ulisses da Silva, Wes Garrett, Shane Spicer) 18 3 Team Purple (Jason Hewerdine, Jason Parkes, Ben Serpell) 11 4 Blue (Andrew Dapre) 1 Stephen Bomball 15 pts 2 Wes Garrett 10 3 Dale Percival 6 4 Shane Spicer 5 5 Cameron O’Neill 5 6 Jason Parkes 5 7 Ulisses da Silva 3 8 Jason Hewerdine 4 9 Ben Serpell 2 10 Andrew Dapre C grade Men/A grade women 1 V-Mobile (Mitchell Lovelock-Faye, Jamie Young, Josh Conry) 12 pts 2 J for Jorge (Mike Steveson, Myles Howard, Jorge Robinson) 12 3 Dave Osmond Fan Club (Narelle Hards, Daniel Green, Meg Ross) 11 4 Purple 1 (Nick Kriewaldt) 5 5 Go to Whoa (Andrew Dapre, Shane Hillier) 2 6 And the Argonauts (Jason Hewardine) 2 7 Blue (Susie Boer, Tara O’Brien) 8 Vino’s Revenge (Simon Pellatt, Miles Prosser, John Thorn) 9 Gang Green (Kenny Cook, Joel Rahman, Laurence Kwan) 10 Red Team Vikings (Nathan Hart, Lewis Hopkins, Mark Stevenson) 11 Skinny Soy Flat White’s with ½ a sugar (Chloe Hosking, Sorcha Flett, Anna Beck) 1 Daniel Green 10 pts 2 Mitchell Lovelock-Faye 6 3 Jorge Robinson 5 4 Nick Kriewaldt 5 5 Jamie Young 4 6 Myles Howaer 4 7 Mike Steveson 3 8 Josh Conry 2 9 Andrew Dapre 2 10 Jason Hewardine 2 11 Narelle Hards 1 12 Shane Hillier 13 Chloe Hosking 14 Sorcha Flett 15 Anna Beck 16 Meg Ross 17 Susie Boer 18 Tara O’Brien 19 Simon Pellatt 20 Miles Prosser 21 John Thorn 22 Kenny Cook 23 Joel Rahman 24 Laurence Kwan 25 Nathan Hart 26 Lewis Hopkins 27 Mark Stevenson B grade women/D grade men 1 Team Felix (Felix Pirie) 15 pts 2 The Killers (Mark Stevenson, Paul Miller, John Thorne) 9 3 OF’s (John Warren, Darryl Cram, Malcolm Paterson) 6 4 NoNames (Caitlin Todd, Grace Meisel-Dennis, Catherine Culvenor) 5 5 Sheather Architects (Glenn Pitcher, Lee Sheather, Nik Webster) 4 6 Hypochondriacs (Lyndsey Vivian, Michele Clement, Peggy Douglass) 3 7 Eco Warriors (Natasha Mitchell, Vanessa Essam, Megan Pitcher) 2 8 McCredie Allstars (Belinda McCredie) 1 Felix Pirie 15 pts 2 Mark Stevenson 7 3 Malcolm Paterson 6 4 Caitlin Todd 5 5 Nik Webster 4 6 Lyndsey Vivian 2 7 Vanessa Essam 2 8 Paul Miller 2 9 Peggy Douglass 1 10 Michele Clement 11 Natasha Mitchell 12 Megan Pitcher 13 Grace Meisel-Dennis 14 Catherine Culvenor 15 Belinda McCredie 16 John Warren 17 Darryl Cram 18 John Thorne 19 Glen Pitcher 20 Lee Sheather Jc's 1 Jericho Genders-Dibden 1.15 2 Paul Genders-Dibden 0.30 1 Lap ITT 1 Paul Genders-Dibden 3.26
