Results for 23rd November 2010

by Glenys Taylor | Nov 24, 2010 | Event Reports

Track Cycling Feilding

Another dry clear sky greeted the riders but the cool South-westerly ensured the bikinis and board shorts stayed out of sight. The stellar appearance tonight was left to a restored war plane humming away in the sky above resplendent in camouflage livery and red nose cone. While the wind was a factor in preventing Lachie Ferguson’s gutsy effort to break his own under 17 flying lap record it was not enough to impact significantly of the nights results.

We had another good turn out of 22 riders with a few being new for the season but not new to the track and still we had riders away, so we certainly do have a solid core of riders and potential to move into the 30 plus category. If this line sounds familiar, you are right as it was the same in last weeks report but still valid.

The racing started with graded warm up races of 4 to 6 laps followed by Lachie’s record attempt that came up a second short on the time he set last season, but with the right conditions or an indoor velodrome Lachie has the ability to set a very challenging record. The warm up races are used to give the handicapper, Ian Gray a guide in estimating the respective handicaps for the nights handicap races. The riders competed in 2 to 3 lap and 1 lap handicap races in their grades followed by longer 10 to 12 lap handicap races. The handicapper performed the magic required to treat the spectators to some superb tight finishes with riders spread 4 and 5 wide across the narrow track dragging all power and speed from their tiring legs and warming the spirits of the cold and hypothermic spectators.

These are the results:

Rider of the night was Sean Whitehouse with a strong and dominant performance with 3 wins and a third, all from the scratch mark. The third was in the best race of the night when he finished within a wheel width to the winner Cameron Gibbons.

Under 15 girls/ under 13 4 laps

1^st Campbell Stewart

2^nd Kate Stewart

3^rd Robert Stannard

4^th Liam Barber

Under 17 5 Laps

1^st Damien Lardner

2^nd Jonty Hapeta

3^rd George Roberts

4^th James Hutton

A & B Grade 6 Laps

1^st Sean Whitehouse

2^nd Megan Blatchford

3^rd Lachie Ferguson

4^th Barry Gilliland

Under 17 flying lap record attempt

Lachie Ferguson 28.53 sec (current record 27.40sec)

Under 15 girls/ under 13 2 Laps handicap

1^st Liam Barber

2^nd Kate Stewart

3^rd Campbell Stewart

Under 17 3 Laps

1^st Jonty Hapeta

2^nd Damien Lardner

3^rd George Roberts

4^th Kelsi Eccles

A & B Grade 5 Laps

1^st Sean Whitehouse

2^nd Brent Zimmerman

3^rd Megan Blatchford

4^th Lachie Ferguson

1 Lap Handicap races

Under 15 girls

1^st Kate Stewart

2^nd Elizabeth Stannard

3^rd Brittany Ingram

4^th Ruby Perry

Under 15 boys

1^st Robert Stannard

2^nd Liam Barber

3^rd Campbell Stewart

4^th Takumi Clarke

Under 17

1^st James Hutton

2^nd Mike McMinn

3^rd Kelsi Eccles

4^th Catherine Young

A & B Grade

1st Cameron Gibbons

2^nd Lachie Ferguson

3^rd Sean Whitehouse

4^th Peter Wenborn

Under 13 5 Lap handicap

1^st Campbell Stewart

2^nd Elizabeth Stannard

3^rd Robert Stannard

4^th Liam Barber

B Grade 10 Lap handicap

1^st George Roberts

2^nd Barry Gilliland

3^rd Megan Blatchford

4^th Mike McMinn

A Grade 12 Lap handicap

1^st Sean Whitehouse

2^nd Jonty Hapeta

3^rd Lachie Ferguson

4^th Damien Lardner

Trophee de Grimpeur

by Matthijs van Wagtendonk | Nov 21, 2010 | Event Reports

Croote the “Grimpeur”

Kent Croote can call him self the Grimpeur after winning the most gruelling race on the PNMCC calendar. At the turn at Highland home Croote and Tom Findlay had opened up a little gap on the rest of the A grade field. The gap widened towards the bottom of Saddle road. It was here that Croote put the pace on and showed his climbing skills to take out the Trophee the Grimpeur before Daniel Lithgow second and Mark Findlay third.

The Trophee the Grimpeur is the race to determine who the best climbers are in the club. In this years race the A and B grade riders were faced with some challenging climbs on the way out and back to Highland home with the finish up Saddle Rd.

In the B grade Luke McCarthy showed how to climb. On the way out and back none of the climbs could split the field. They arrived as one peloton at the bottom of the Saddle. With his superb climbing style McCarthy dropped the whole b grade field on his attempt up to the Saddle to claim the B grade Grimpeur title before Paul Deuritz second and Steve Glasgow third.

C and D grade have the same finish but the distance out of Ashhurst towards the the respective turns is a bit shorter. C grade was won by Max Annear before George Roberts and Andrew Bengston. Michaela Drummond rider from the Ashhurst Taskforce was the first female on the top. The D grade “Grimpeuse” is Kate Stewart.

Results in full

A grade Ashhurst highland home return finish up Saddle Rd

1 Kent Croote 1:29:50; 2 Danile Lithgow 1:30:43; 3 Mark Findlay 1:31:10; 4 Luke Wolfsbauer 1:31:12; 5 Mark Waterland 1:31:28; 6 Tom Findlay 1:33:14; 7 Michael Hall 1:35:03.

B grade Ashhurst highland home return finish up Saddle Rd

1 Luke McCarthy 1:33:48; 2 Paul Deuritz 1:34:37; 3 Steve Glasgow 1:34:37; 4 Luuk van Wagtendonk 1:34:39; 5 Cameron Senior 1:34:49; 6 Patrick Edwards 1:34:55; 7 Angus Findlay 1:35:01; 8 Erik d’Arbois 1:35:03; 9 Kevin Laskey 1:35:19; Wayne Wolfsbauer 1:35:27; Jonty Hapeta dnf

C grade Ashhurst Awahou School return finish up Saddle Rd

1 Max Annear 1:10:02; 2 George Roberts 1:11:21; 3 Andrw Bengston 1:13:54; 4 Tony Reddrop 1:14:53; 5 Robert Jaques 1:17:08; 6 Michaela Drummond 1:20:39; 7 Ruby Perry 1:22:25; 8 Katryn Young 1:26:13; 9 Kelsi Eccles 1:33:08

D grade Ashhurst Waterford café return and finish up Saddle Rd

1 Kate Stewart 57:51; David Drummond 1:00:74; 3 Brad Johnson 1:06:35

points and times after round 6 Wednesday ITT series Kairanga

by Matthijs van Wagtendonk | Nov 20, 2010 | Event Reports

Here is the points and times table after round 6. The record times are updated. As you can see Jocelyn Goodwin has broken the course record in round 6.

2010-11-17 Kairanga ITT round 6

by Matthijs van Wagtendonk | Nov 17, 2010 | Event Reports

An other beautiful night for a time trial. Looks if it is exams time numbers a little down but still great turn out. Some new riders out there. Welcome Allan Cleland, Alison Salter and Scott Curry. We issued you numbers but those belong to other riders so Allan your number on the list is 301, Alison yours is 303 and Scott your will be 302. Thanks to the helpers Kirsty at the turn and doing the signage, Julie and Rebecca at the registration, Paul the holder and Nick and Rebecca at the finish great job. Here are the results. The points table will follow.