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Club Races
Shauna Takes Out
60km Event
Horsham, Sunday
5th April 2009
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Shauna
Heard |
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Grampians
Veteran cyclists were greeted by a cold, blustery
Southerly wind on Sunday as they tackled Horsham’s
Noradjuha/Nurrabiel circuit over 60km.
Tough conditions
normally favour the scratch bunch, and Frank Kean,
Steve Monks, Allan Barnett, Daryl Elliot and Harvey
Lang set off at a solid pace into the head wind,
and by mid race had halved the lead of the 2 minute
bunch to 500 metres.
However,
Sean Prins, Gerard O’Brien, Leon Gibson,
Drew Heard, Peter Blair and Tony Lloyd all worked
hard together, and were safely holding scratch over
the concluding stages, whilst closing quickly on
the 14 minute markers of Shauna Heard, Peter Mayo,
Les Power, Meg Parnaby and Bridget Lang.
With six
kilometers to ride, Shauna Heard and Mayo went clear
of the limit markers, and were able to hold off the
fast finishing second scratch bunch by 50 metres,
with Shauna Heard taking out the race ahead of Mayo.
Leon Gibson
finished best of the bunch in third place.
Steve Monks
took out a well deserved fastest time of 1hour, thirty-five
minutes and 20 seconds.
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