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Raf Freire also ventured down – didn’t
get to see him after he went into marshalling (they started age groups & 100/50
separately), but I see from results that he finished 15th in 30-39
men in the 50k. Good going on a hardtail Raf. Was a good course – but tough
as Bamf said. While we were being marshalled up, they put an announcement over
that even the elite men (including Craig Gordon – world 24 hr champ &
winner by 10 mins) were pushing their bikes up the biggest hill!
For a club that’s still reasonably
small – they’ve built some awesome track and the terrain variety is
huge. I for one would really like to see us work together with Coffs
& Port Mac to develop a 3-way series – maybe for next winter – for
more racing variety, less pressure on stalwarts like the Trotters/Benhams to
organise as many races thru the cooler months – and another opportunity
for us to strut our club uniforms!!
If people think that’s conceptually
attractive, I could get in touch with Adrian Hawke from Coffs and whoever runs
Port Mac club to see how they feel about the idea.
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Sent: Tuesday, 3 July 2007 2:14 PM
To:
Subject: [armidalemtb] Australian
MTB marathon
Just a
quick race report about the race at Coffs on
the weekend .Steve and myself ventured down to coast
for the Coffs marathon on Saturday which doubled also
as the the Australian marathon championships which
consisted of 100k full course or 50 half course. Steve
tackled the half marathon in which he did extremely
well finishing20th out of feild of 35 after breaking
his chain half way around.I on the other hand stupidly
took on the 100k which was a great deal of fun ,but
also one of the hardest rides I think Ive done ,with
spectaculy big climbs that you could not ride up on a
motor bike,so it was a slow slog on foot to the top of
a few hills .so after over five and half hours of
riding I crept over the line in 8th spot in the 30to39
class.I highly reconmend this race for next year ,its
a challenge but great fun.
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