by Glenys Taylor | Feb 3, 2011 | Track Results
Photo courtesy of Kirsty Kaihau
Eventful was the word to describe tonight, if a little understated. The largest crowd of the season enjoyed close competitive racing with tight finishes high speed and regrettably concluded with one cyclist watching a stellar constellation all of his own. We had 37 riders plus supporters filling the terraced seating. We all enjoyed a warm night with bright skies and a westerly breeze. The Wanganui contingent of 5 riders plus supporters made the trip again and they all added colour to their respective races. The programme started with graded 7 lap points races followed by 3 to 4 lap graded handicap races then the nights racing came to an unscheduled conclusion at the end of the age, C and B grade 3 up 200m sprints. The abrupt end to racing was as a result of Jordan Castles leaving his bike seat a little earlier than he would have liked. Both Josh Kendall and Jordan Castles wanted a rerun of their earlier race that Jordan had won. They rolled around to the 200m mark and hit the go buttons, Josh took the early lead with Jordan out of his saddle building speed for a planned overtake before the line but Josh was not going to fade and he fought back to ensure he did not surrender the lead. At the line Josh had prevailed by half a wheel and then witnesses say Jordan stopped pedalling causing the constantly rotating pedal of the fixed wheel track bike to conflict with the stationary leg so lifting the stationary leg and causing Jordan to be bucked off the saddle in spectacular fashion with a 360 degree flip onto the track. In moments his father was at his side and a support crew of spectators and parents kicked into gear. The ambulance was called as a precaution. I am pleased to report that Jordan was sent home at 1am after being cleared of any broken bones. While the nights racing concluded before the long handicap races we did still have great racing with all racing being extra competitive and finishing with riders separated by fractions of wheel widths. Ian Gray was complemented by many for his skilful judgement in setting the handicaps. While Matiu Kaihau is the strongest cyclist on the track and a national representative he was pushed tonight by Jaycob Humphreys. In the first points race clash Matiu had a comfortable win in the first sprint but the second sprint was won by only half of a wheel as Jaycob tried to roll over Matiu on the finish straight. The next race was the 7 lap handicap race with Matiu on scratch and Jaycob on 30 metres. Jaycob was able to bridge a gap to join three other riders and together they were able to set a hot pace and worked together to gather up the rest of the A graders and make Matiu’s task of catching them, as difficult as possible. Matiu did not have the assistance that riding in a group provided and instead had to display his skill and fitness to fight solo to catch this group. Matiu joined the group with 3 laps to go and took his place in the group and rolled through, in this process Jaycob positioned himself on Matiu’s wheel. With a lap to go Matiu found himself at the front and kicked, the group struggled to match him and a 10 metre gap soon appeared. At the 200 metre mark Jaycob started to move away from the group and used the final turn to build his pace and launched a full attack down the outside of the finishing straight. The two judges present had difficulty separating them but the victory was awarded to Jaycob.
There will be an extra nights racing on Thursday the 3rd of February to accommodate the club’s individual pursuit championships. As the pursuit is a time comparison event it is essential for fairness that they are completed on the same night and in the same conditions.
These are the results:
U15 boys and U17 girls 6 lap points race
1st Campbell Stewart 10 points
2nd Ruby Perry 5 points
3rd= Michella Drummond 2 points
Robert Stannard
C Grade 7 lap points race
1st Julio Kaihau 10 points
2nd= Kelsi Eccles 5 points
Andrew Bengston 5 points
B Grade 7 lap points race
1st= Jordan Castles 6 points
Shaun Matena
3rd Julio Kaihau 5 points
A Grade 3 lap handicap
1st Matiu Kaihau 10 points
2nd Jaycob Humphreys 6 points
3rd Megan Blatchford 3 points
U15 & U17 3 lap handicap
1st Liam Barber
2nd Robert Stannard
3rd Ruby Perry
C Grade 4 lap handicap
1st Andrew Ward
2nd Jo Ellery
3rd Kelsi Eccles
Masters 4 lap Keirin
1st Victor Possee
2nd Mark Signal
3rd Jo Ellery
B Grade 4 lap handicap
1st Cassie Cameron
2nd Peter Wenborn
3rd Jordan Castles
A Grade 5 lap handicap
1st Jaycob Humphreys
2nd Matiu Kaihau
3rd Steve Stannard
200m 3up sprints
Heat 1
Campbell Stewart 1st 15.96
Robert Stannard
Micheala Drummond
Heat 2
Liam Barber 1st 16.95
Kelsi Eccles
Brittany Ingram
Heat 3
Cassie Cameron 1st 15.59
Ruby Perry
Katie O’Neil
Heat 4
Jordan Castles 1st 15.58
Josh Kendall
Andrew Bengston
Heat 5
Victor Possee 1st 16.23
Mark Signal
Jo Ellery
Heat 6
Shaun Matena 1st 14.80
Andrew Ward
Peter Wenborn
Heat 7
Ross Castles 1st 14.60
James Hutton
Tamara Ross
Heat 8
Barry Gilliland 1st 16.60
Rachael Southee
Heat 9
Josh Kendall 1st 15.10
Jordan
by Glenys Taylor | Jan 28, 2011 | Track Results
After a wet and windy weekend tonight’s conditions were taken directly from the box marked “Stellar” with a warm clear sky and a slight breeze from the preferred direction. With the year starting to take some shape and people returning to routines the 32 cyclists present, represented the best turnout for the season. The spectator numbers were also boosted making for what appeared to be a crowd on the embankment set for another nights entertaining competitive racing. Four cyclists plus supporters made the trip from Wanganui again this week, among their number was 74 year old Victor Possee complete with carbon fibre bike and rear disc wheel.
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by Vaughan Hunt | Jan 20, 2011 | Track Results
A mild warm night with a slight South east breeze reminding all present that Feilding has a stellar history as a rural services town. A smaller than usual group of only 15 riders made it to the track tonight but the group provided a good cross section of cyclists with younger 14 year olds to older masters 5 riders proving that cycling is a sport for all ages.
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by Vaughan Hunt | Jan 20, 2011 | Track Results
Windy but warm conditions with threatening heavy rain cloud on a day that cyclone type wind and rain had been forecast. Despite the meteorologists grim predictions 29 hardy soles turned out to compete tonight making it the largest turn out of the season. The field also included three visitors from Wanganui. The wide cross section of ages again proved the universal appeal of the sport.
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by Glenys Taylor | Jan 13, 2011 | Track Results
Track Cycling Feilding
We enjoyed a warm night after a stella hot day on the 4th of January and a keen 16 cyclists began the journey to work off the Christmas excesses. The night was made up of 6 lap warm up races and ended with a long handicapped race with individual record attempts by all riders. The feature was the final 15 lap handicap race which started with 11 riders spread out around the track on their respective handicaps with the track surface hot and no wind. On the start line we had the two scratch markers, old bull Steve Stannard and young bull Jaycob Humphreys. The old bull, displaying a cool and calm exterior was preparing to use all of his cunning and guile to overcome the challenge of the impatient and eager young bull. They had a substantial challenge ahead of them with a solid group of 6 working well together with a head start of half a lap. The old bull started early with comments that he was pretty tired after a successful 2000m individual pursuit record attempt when he broke the masters 2 record by over 10 seconds, this allowed him to reduce the number of turns at the front of the chase and helped drag the energy from the young bull. The race still had 5 laps to go when they caught the lead bunch. The young bull charged to the front of the lead group, the group, apart from the old bull rotated well. The old bull reached into his bag of tricks and told Megan Blatchford that it looked as if she had punctured, she hadn’t, but it was enough for her to take measures to check and affected her momentum. The last lap arrived and the young bull had his impatience on full display as he had already set off for the flag and stretching all chasers, meanwhile old bull was contemplating his next move, he shuffled his way up the line as they had started to string out then at the second last turn he made his move, as he came up to the shoulder of young bull and with less than a hundred metres to go he hit the front and young bull was spent, and the old fable was proven to be true again.
The night was also notable for 2 broken records and a number of new marks set in the various catagories
These are the results:
Rider of the night as selected by Darren Humphreys was Steve Stannard in recognition of his breaking the old masters 2 2000m record by over 10 seconds and doing it without the support of lap splits, Aerobars or pace notes and also the master class he went on to provide it the 15 lap handicap race.
U15 and U17 5 lap race
1st Campbell Stewart
2nd Kate Stewart
3rd Robert Stannard
4th Andrew Bengston
A & B Grade 6 lap race
1st Jaycob Humphreys
2nd Steve Stannard
3rd George Roberts
4th Brent Zimmerman
1 Lap standing start record attempts
Michaela Drummond 35.84 New Under 15 record
Elizabeth Stannard 39.04
Kate Stewart 36.26
Campbell Stewart 35.58
Robert Stannard 37.31
Andrew Bengston 37.86
Megan Blatchford 33.46 established Masters 3
Bradley Nelson 34.45
Mike McMinn 34.77
Barry Gilliland 36.05
Ross Castle 33.90
Pete Wenborn 35.93
Brent Zimmerman 32.09
George Roberts 34.35
Jaycob Humphreys 33.16
Steve Stannard 2.42.39 New record masters2 2000m
U15 & U17 3 lap race
1st Campbell Stewart
2ndMike McMinn
3rd Kate Stewart
4th Andrew Bengston
A & B Grade 4 Lap Handicap
1st Megan Blatchford
2nd Jaycob Humphreys
3rd Brent Zimmerman
4th George Roberts
Under 17 / 15 10 Lap Handicap
1st Robert Stannard
2nd Elizabeth Stannard
3rd Michaela Drummond
4th Andrew Bengston
A & B Grade 15 Lap Handicap
1st Steve Stannard
2nd Jaycob Humphreys
3rd Megan Blatchford
4th George Roberts
by Vaughan Hunt | Dec 16, 2010 | Track Results
The light rain cleared long enough for the mild conditions to dry the track and we were left with a heavily overcast sky and a light Southerly breeze. The track was looking her best with Albert James of the Manawatu District council arranging for the lines to be repainted and club supporters Ian Gray, Greg Bryan and Darren Humphreys investing 8 man hours on Sunday cutting back the grass edges to expose the full track for the safety of the riders. The feature of the night was to be the Club Championships for the 500 metre standing start time trial, the cool track and moist air were not ideal but the absence of a strong wind was welcomed. The stellar performance of the night was the unofficial equalling of a New Zealand record to Megan Blatchford in the Womans Masters 3 category. Megans time of 40.32 seconds was 2 seconds faster than the old track record. It is heartening to think that a humble outdoor, asphalt provincial track like Feilding when mixed with a world class athlete like Megan can produce an international quality result.
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Photo courtesy of Kirsty Kaihau