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Illawarra Cycling Club
Handicap race - Saturday, May 5, 2007
Rabbit gets up
The greyhounds off the scratch mark were in full flight in last weekend's 44.5km handicap race but it was the rabbits off the 12 minute mark that managed to stay away and win by 41seconds.
Southern Highlands riders came down to join with the Illawarra riders in raising funds to assist with Richard Vollebregt's assault on the Race Across America (RAAM). Vollebregt last year set a new record for the ride from Perth to Sydney, this saw him receive an invitation from the RAAM organisers to participate in this year's event.
Seventy one riders lined up before the starter for the handicap race. The eight riders off the scratch mark made their intention very clear by setting off at a near record pace as soon as the starter dropped the flag.
The riders were divided up into eight bunches by the handicappers. At the end of the first lap the 12min bunch had caught the two bunches in front of them and had only lost 30sec to the chasing bunch. Scratch had caught the two bunches in front of them with 1min to the 7min bunch and 3min to the 9min group.
When the streamlined scratch group finally caught the 9min bunch at Hooker Estate on the way to the finish the 12min group was dangling just over a minute in front.
It appeared that the scratch group would swallow everyone in front before the finish but the tenacious 12min group powered on to reach the finish line 41sec in front of them.
Nine riders were up for the sprint finish with the honours going to Tim Egan from Sth Highlands from Illawarra's Rob Cummins and Peter Evans.
In a very close contested sprint finish of the scratch group Craig Paull was victorious over Patrick O'Shea from Sth Highlands. Fastest time went to Paull, Justin Tomlinson Sth Highlands and Aaron Terechovs. Their time of 1:05:07:84 is one of the fastest ever for the course.
Next week it is a 1pm start for the 66km scratch race.
Results
1 Tim Egan (Sth Highlands) 2 Rob Cummins (Illawarra) 3 Peter Evans (Illawarra) 4 Peter Cape (Sth Highlands) 5 Andrew Glenn (Sth Highlands) 6 Phillip Mullany (Illawarra) 7 Samuel Arnold (Illawarra) 8 Neil Arnold (Illawarra) 9 David Morris (Illawarra) 10 Craig Paull (Illawarra) 11 Patrick O'Shea (Sth Highlands) 12 Peter Cooper (Illawarra) 13 Peter Tomlinson (Sth Highlands) 14 Aaron Terechovs (Illawarra) 15 Michael Lanyon (Illawarra) 16 Robbie Verity (Sth Highlands) 17 Jose Pereira (Illawarra) 18 Gavin Drury (Illawarra) 19 Michael Krebs (Sth Highlands) 20 Tim Devlin (Eurobodalla) 21 Anthony Kneipp (Illawarra) 22 Richard Vollebregt (Sth Highlands) 23 Jason Egan (Sth Highlands) 24 Dean Kelly (Illawarra) 25 Lionel Covington (Illawarra) 26 Keith Bennett (Illawarra) 27 Arron Hull (Illawarra) 28 Mark Feeney (Sth Highlands) 29 Philip Jones (Illawarra) 30 Ian Robinson (Illawarra) 31 Glenn Gapps (Illawarra) 32 Dave Power (Sth Highlands) 33 Jeffrey Gray (Illawarra) 34 John Davies (Sth Highlands) 35 Diego Diaz (Illawarra) 36 Lance Moran (Illawarra) 37 Hans Battaerd (Illawarra) 38 Tony Burke (Illawarra) 39 Natasha Jazlpczyk (Sth Highlands) 40 Michael Comensoli (Illawarra) 41 Joe Williams (Illawarra) 42 Jasmin Arnold (Illawarra) 43 Paul Milner (Sth Highlands) 44 Leonie Aisbett (Illawarra) 45 Steve Westra (Wollongong MTB) 46 Andrew Stewart (Illawarra) 47 Paul Kaye (Illawarra) 48 Adam Le Serve (Illawarra) 49 Stephen Phillips (Illawarra) 50 Anthony Gullace (Illawarra) 51 John Danzo (Illawarra) 52 Peter Vesel (Illawarra) 53 Daniel Silveri (Illawarra) 54 John Algie (Sth Highlands) 55 Wendy Den (Sth Highlands) 56 Rita Mein (Sth Highlands) 57 Wal Mullany (Illawarra) 58 David McMaster (Illawarra) 59 Mark Glenn (Sth Highlands) 60 Kathryn Glenn (Sth Highlands) 61 Katherine Balding (Sth Highlands) 62 Roy McEwan (Sth Highlands) 63 Neville Sullivan (Sth Highlands)
