by Vaughan Hunt | Feb 16, 2017 | Event Reports
“All Time” records broken, established or equaled this week in the Club’s 12km Time Trial’s nine year history came from:
- Josh Mulcahy – 11yr Boys – 22.33min
- Dra’s Caldwell – 12 year Boys – 20:06min
- Thomas Stannard – Under M17s – 16:55min (equalled Adam Martin’s record)
- Libby Arbuckle – Under 19 – 17:58min (best female time ever)
- Barry Gilliland – M7 65-69yrs– 18:35min
- Neil Pollock – M9 75-79yrs – 22:33min (established)
Season record/s, broken this week:
- Louisa Cousins – W3 45-49yrs – 23:52min
Results/Records
by Vaughan Hunt | Feb 9, 2017 | Event Reports
Congratulations this month to Robert Stannard who set a new “All Time Record” for the Under 23 category (14:37min) and Josh Mulcahy, in the 11 year old category (26:33min).
So far this year with two TT’s run, Yvonne Clarke (W3) has broken her previous record with Thomas Stannard (U17), Samara Fenn (Under 19) and Louisa Cousins (W3) establishing 2016/2017 season records.
More photos
Results here
by Vaughan Hunt | Feb 9, 2017 | Event Reports
Several BikeManawatu cyclists competed last weekend in Whanganui at the New Zealand Masters Games, achieving lots of medal winning outcomes.
The games attracted over 4,400 athletes in 50 sports. The games annually alternate between Whanganui and Dunedin.
Picutred are the BikeManawatu Trackies, but check out more photos and results here
by KateS | Nov 3, 2016 | Event Reports
Click here to view the 2016 ITT series results, including rider times and a points tally for the whole season leading up to Christmas.
How the points are calculated….
Participation = 1 point; Creating a personal best time for the season = 1 point.
This ITT series will be run every Wednesday evening with registration at 6pm and the first rider off at 6:30pm. The last ITT and prizegiving will be held on 14 December 2016.
by Vaughan Hunt | Oct 20, 2016 | Event Reports
Doha, Qatar, 9th -16th October, 2016.
The biggest, in terms of participating nations anyhow, annual event on the cycling calendar has just been run and won in the Gulf nation of Qatar.
The very contrasting conditions, and a very contrasting environment to last years Championships in Richmond, Virginia, provided the opportunity for a different type of rider to wear the Rainbow Jersey for 2017.
The event was held a fortnight later than usual to allow the weather in Doha to cool a little from the 40 degree plus conditions which can occur in September. Even so, the predicted conditions of high thirties and mid-range humidity was on the minds of those preparing, as the heat can potentially play a bigger role that race fitness.
The week started out with the Teams Time Trial (TTT), where the cream of the road cycling professional peleton competed for 183,000 Euros and bragging rights as to who was the fasted team in the world. The extremely hot conditions saw a number of riders in distress, but some very fast times on a technical 40 km course.
The womens TTT was won by Boels Dolmans , a team that included high profile riders Elizabeth Deignan (nee Armisted), Evelyn Stevens, and Ellen van Dijk, in a time of 48.41. Taking the minor placings were Canyon SRAM and Cervelo Bigla. The team of NZ rider Georgia Williams, Be Pink, were 50 seconds from the podium in 4th position.
In the mens event, Etixx Quickstep lead by former individual time trial (ITT) champion Tony Martin, beat last years winners BMC Racing, by only 12 seconds and averaged 56.426km/h for their win. The Australian registered Orica Bike Exchange team were third, some 37 seconds in arrears. No NZ men were involved in the TTT.
Two days later the ITT events started, with the U23 men and U19 girls the following day. Hayden McCormick (One Pro Cycling) and Sam Dobbs (BMC Development) were the kiwi contingent in the U23 mens event, with Madeleine Park and Mikayla Harvey our representatives in the girls event. A mechanical in the first 3 km put paid to McCormick’s chances, but Dobbs posted a very respectable 37:37 for two laps of the 15 km course. Despite losing a few valuable seconds with a jumped chain on the penultimate corner, national champion Park rode an impresive race puting her in eleventh spot, only 7 seconds from eighth position. Harvey was just over 2 min down on winner Karlijn Swinkels (Netherlands) in 31st position.
The U19 mens event was the next day and featured Oceania and National Champion James Fouche and the in form Robert Stannard. Stannard started conservatively finding himself 25 seconds down on the leader after one lap, but did not fade like many others on the second lap to take the leaders ‘hot seat’ with a time of 36:44. Fouche unfortunately “over-cooked” one corner to lose some time and some skin. Stannard ended up in 11th best, only 2 seconds from a top ten finish, whilst Fouche was 44th, 3:49 behind eventual winner Brandon McNulty (USA). Notably, McNulty’s time of 34:42 would have placed him 3rd in the U23 mens race even though he was restricted to a 52 x 14 rollout!
The only elite (senior) rider to do the ITT was Cannondale’s Jack Bauer. In very trying conditions in the heat of the midday sun, Bauer finished the 40km course in 47:48, putting him 27th out of a field of 66 of the worlds best. Being only 3 min in arrears of winner Tony Martin is event more impressive (for both Martin and Bauer) when you saw that third place was well over one minute behind Martin. Indeed Martin alone posted a faster time than nine of the teams in the TTT on the same course!
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by KateS | Oct 1, 2016 | Event Reports
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Ckick here to view the winter series road race results, including the Cheltenham Cup, won by Chris Denholm.
