3 Hour Race - Golf Club Track - Broken Hill Mountain Bike Club

<strong>Broken</strong> <strong>Hill</strong> <strong>Mountain</strong> <strong>Bike</strong> <strong>Club</strong> Inc.<br />

• PO Box 623 <strong>Broken</strong> <strong>Hill</strong> NSW 2880 • www.bhmtb.asn.au<br />

Monday 20 th August<br />

<strong>Race</strong> Report by the Maillot Jaune<br />

Sunday 19 th August saw the BHMTBC hold its inaugural 3-hour race at the club’s golf club track.<br />

The timing of this event is to allow local riders some training for upcoming endurance events<br />

such as the Back Yamma Bigfoot 100km race near Parkes, the Coomealla-Mildura<br />

<strong>Mountain</strong>less <strong>Bike</strong> <strong>Club</strong> 3-hour Enduro and our own Poker <strong>Race</strong> at the Silverton Heritage Trail<br />

in October. Poker <strong>Race</strong> entries available at http://www.entryzone.com.au/<br />

18 riders turned up to test their endurance racing over Mens A and B and Womens A. All the<br />

riders knew it was going to be a challenging race on such a technical track over this length of<br />

time. The steep and rocky decent from “Skyline” took its share riders with all but a few returning<br />

with battle scars. Corey Sammut was forced to retire after a particularly heavy fall and David<br />

Lyle and Megan Algate had a competition of the bloodiest knee.<br />

The bikes also were punished, Craig Olsen retired with mechanical issues (chain) Lance<br />

Edgecumbe retired after blowing a tyre side wall that was unable to be repaired with patches<br />

and CO2 canisters, and Steve Chinner bent his derailleur on the 4 th lap to have it completely<br />

snap off on the 5 th lap. After some ‘on-the-spot’ repairs, Steve was able to limp home in ‘Single<br />

Speed’ mode.<br />

Despite Steve’s derailleur misadventures, his commanding led meant he was still able to finish 5<br />

minutes ahead of Benny Goodman (2 nd ) and Tony Hepburn (3 rd ) in the Mens A category. These<br />

top 3 riders were the only ones mad enough to complete 5 laps of the course and must be<br />

congratulated on their effort.<br />

Riding high after the All Blacks win over the Wallabies in the Bledisloe Cup on Saturday night,<br />

Kiwi George Adams trounced the Mens B field finishing a good 10 minutes ahead of Nick Algate<br />

(2 nd ) and Richard Crawshaw (3 rd ) George has been consistently finishing at the top of the<br />

podium this season and will no doubt be rewarded with promotion to Mens A in 2013. Megan<br />

Algate was the only Womens A rider, again posting a time that her husband could only dream<br />

of.<br />

As always, the club would like to thank the timekeepers Brodee, Richard, Karen, the course<br />

marshals, Steve & Justin Pascoe and the Muffin Stall Helpers – Jasmin Algate, Freya & Aiden<br />

Goodman who sold muffins and water kindly donated by Woolworths.

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<strong>Broken</strong> <strong>Hill</strong> <strong>Mountain</strong> <strong>Bike</strong> <strong>Club</strong> Inc.<br />

• PO Box 623 <strong>Broken</strong> <strong>Hill</strong> NSW 2880 • www.bhmtb.asn.au<br />

<strong>Broken</strong> <strong>Hill</strong> <strong>Mountain</strong> <strong>Bike</strong> <strong>Club</strong> – 3hr <strong>Race</strong><br />

<strong>Golf</strong> <strong>Club</strong> <strong>Track</strong> - 19 th August 2012<br />

PLACING Lap 1 Lap 2 Lap 3 Lap 4 Lap 5 Total<br />

SENIOR MEN<br />

1 STEVE CHINNER 0:37:59 0:39:20 0:40:12 0:40:51 0:54:21 3:32:43<br />

2 BENNY GOODMAN 0:40:07 0:41:40 0:42:31 0:43:57 0:48:50 3:37:05<br />

3 TONY HEPBURN 0:41:16 0:41:49 0:42:31 0:45:36 0:48:16 3:39:28<br />

4 TREVOR BARRIE 0:42:04 0:41:29 0:43:33 0:47:10 2:54:16<br />

5 DAVID STEPHENSON 0:41:21 0:41:45 0:41:53 0:51:42 2:56:41<br />

6 LES BORCHARD 0:40:26 0:42:08 0:43:01 0:51:45 2:57:20<br />

7 DAVE LYLE 0:42:58 0:44:58 0:47:31 0:49:31 3:04:58<br />

SPORTS MEN<br />

1 GEORGE ADAMS 0:41:22 0:43:00 0:44:12 0:48:05 2:56:39<br />

2 NICK ALGATE 0:45:59 0:46:02 0:49:21 0:51:40 3:13:02<br />

3 RICHARD CRAWSHAW 0:45:51 0:46:56 0:49:14 0:56:39 3:18:40<br />

4 BARNEY STEVENS 0:44:06 0:47:05 0:51:54 0:56:57 3:20:02<br />

5 DARREN SAMMUT 0:46:53 0:51:11 0:51:30 0:53:47 3:23:21<br />

6 ADAM WHITE 0:48:39 0:50:45 0:54:07 2:33:31<br />

7 PHIL SULLIVAN 0:55:23 1:03:23 0:59:55 2:58:41<br />

8 LANCE EDGECUMBE 0:50:32 1:13:24 2:03:56<br />

9 COREY SAMMUT 0:46:50 0:46:50<br />

10 CRAIG OLSEN 0:51:42 0:51:42<br />

WOMEN<br />

1 MEGAN ALGATE 0:43:56 0:44:47 0:44:51 0:46:38 3:00:12