Armidale Cycling Club

The Keegan Downes Sundowner Coonabarabran to Gunnedah handicap will be held by the Gunnedah Club on Saturday 26 June. More information here.

Gunnedah to Tamworth follows on Sunday 27 June.

Entry for both these races is via the Cycling NSW web site, and closes this Sunday 13 June.

Inverell will be holding the Ashford Road Race on Saturday 19 June. Flyer available here.

There will be 3 handicap races over 15, 30 and 70km. Pre-entry is preferred (see flyer for contact details).

Col Maciver won two titles in his division of the NSW Masters Championships held in Moruya on the South Coast over the weekend of 15-16 May. On the first day was the road race, featuring two laps of a 17.5 km course, with the critical section occurring in the last 3 kilometers to the finish line involving a climb from the Moruya River to the ridge top above Moruya.

Most of the first lap proceeded at a fairly steady pace with only a few riders willing to take the lead. From the outward crossing of the Moruya River to the second turn-around Col stayed on the front and rode reasonably hard up the hill to the finish line at the end of the first lap to try and thin the field out a bit.

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Tamworth Cycle Club hosted their annual Nemingha - Nundle race in windy and cold conditions on Sunday 30 May. Armidale was represented by Sam and Dave Jenner in the 40km race, and Wilfried Keller, Phil Thomas, Lachie McPhie and Andrew Swan in the 100km race.

Best performed was Sam Jenner who was fourth in the 40km race, just ahead of Dave in 6th place. The race was won by Kieran Lewis who also recorded fastest time, ahead of Emily Nichols and Matthew Carrington all of Tamworth.

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In a performance reminiscent of Cadel Evans’ win into Montalcino in the Giro D’Italia, Al O’Hara blitzed the field in a combined A/B/C grade criterium on Saturday 29 May.

Run under appalling conditions which forced the organisers to shorten the race to 2 minutes + 1 lap, Al put in a monster attack from the gun which completely demoralised the field. He took the win by a huge margin with daylight second, third and fourth.

The only blemish on his performance came when he was fined $50 by the commissaire for an inappropriate victory salute. But even that failed to daunt Al’s joyful celebrations, who said after the race “that  seemed to go on for hours. I had to dig deeper than ever before, and if it hadn’t been for the plate of scones with jam and cream I had at Caffiends on Marsh this morning I never would have made it”.