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Ian Morton From the Desk of the HandicapperThe Handicapper's prognostications for this week; Des Brown D to C
Rob Langridge
RACING THIS WEEK:Saturday, 11th July: Uriarra Homestead Graded Teams RaceWhere: Uriarra Homestead, intersection Uriarra Rd and Brindabella Rd. The nominated marshals for this event are; • Kevin Hennessy • Denis Jessop • Kim Malcolm • Sean Smith • John Wilson
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RACE REPORT:Old Federal Highway Graded Scratch – 4th JulyOn a sunny but cold and occasionally windy afternoon, fifty-three riders lined up to punish themselves with laps of the Old Federal Highway between Shingle Hill and the Lake George Lookout. With some confusion as to the course and laps in the lead-up to the race, in the end A through D did four laps of the course with E through G doing three laps. But as we were missing the special ”Timing Henry”, everything became a bit confused at the end of the race, and due to my incorrect start-up sequence of the time clocks, neither of the clocks would print the times. Afterwards in the van, this resulted in much head scratching as to how to recall the split times from the two timers (still not solved). Throw in some random riders who decided to have a spirited ride across the line before we realised they had no race numbers, and a few strange numbers in the chute sheet (please, everyone, wear your numbers on the OUTSIDE of the wind vest, next time you may be recorded as a DNF!), it was a while after the finish before we could work out the grade finishing order for those riders who had waited . Anyway - a big thanks to all of the marshals, Bob Perkins, Ally Roche, John Thorn, Darren Garnon, Ben Davis, Alain Arbout and Sean Ifland for assisting and to all of the riders for not doing anything which required medical services! ps - we also had a visit from the local Police as we were packing up, who had been called by a concerned citizen that was worried that one of our group might get hit by a car. Isn’t it nice to know that there are caring people out there? (I’m sure the call to the Police was more along the lines of “bloody cyclists” - but we can always hope).
Michael Fawke |
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