What a morning, three cheers for the 25 members that braved the miserable conditions and made the effort to turn up. It was pouring cats and dogs as the committee arrived to begin setting up, it was so bad that one could question if these people should be driving cars as clearly they can’t see the lines in the carpark.
For those of you that took what many believe to be; the better/warmer/dryer/safer option. The conditions weren’t too bad, the rain only came in heavy as the cyclist were heading in, and great fully, everyone rode to the conditions and there were no injuries to report. Even in these questionable conditions, we still had 7 people break their handicap.
The timing system worked a treat, so it appears Dave DQ MD, has finally eliminated the gremlins and began training Kent Holmes and Jen Scaysbrook in the dark arts of the timing system. Last week after the race I was contacted by a member inquiring about the process in replacing his timing chip and if a timing chip had been handed in. I wasn’t going to name and shame him – but this week he was racing using his son’s chip- and blamed him for swapping them! his initials are ST, in charge of the Junior Tri’s and can be seen wearing a blue tri shit crossing the finish line with Ben Hall.
Here are some snaps from todays finish line.
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MILESTONE MOMENT
We witnessed our first milestone event for this season with Col Woodward finishing 300 club races, what a great effort after having last season off following surgery on his back.
300 Races- Col Woodward
Double Distance next week, we will be having a wave start at 05:15am and
YOU MUST PRE-REGISTER.
I have created a separate Double Distance registration link for the Double Distance race, you will find it black tool bar with the other links, and you MUST rake your bike on the third bike rack. For those competing in the normal or intermediate distance events, please use the big green ‘Click here to Register’ button.
A huge thanks to our marshals today, who no doubt would have rather stayed in bed, Lisa Moore, Rob Worth and Tezza Simpson.
Your marshals for next week’s double distance and Full Distance races are: Kara Pease and Ian Curnow. We have a vacancy, so if your injured or just want to help out please message me, I am also looking to fill a marshalling vacancy on the Noosa weekend 3 November.
Our random draw winners today were, Col Woodward, Peter Crowe and Sebastian Thomson, a big thanks to our weekly sponsors, Coast Cycles, Sth Tweed Super Cycles and Therapies on Boyd Sports Massage
See you all next week.
Stu