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Once again the weather for this time of the year couldn’t have been better. Although it was crisp at 8am as riders started arriving at registration, the garages and pit area soon started to warm up with people sitting on wind trainers. These were the serious contenders. For others (who were there for fun) they got out on the track and in to the early morning sunshine to test out the track and have a look at the new layout for the transition zone. 
This year each rider was required to ride with their transponder on their right hand front fork and the lead up to the transition zone remained on the track in a coned off split right to the stopping point. The transponder was then handed to the next rider who then took off down the pit lane and on to the track. This appeared to be a far safer transition than previous years and enabled spectators and team mates a great view. The cheers from this crowd was appreciated and spurred riders on to another lap or more.
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Peter McCarthy competing in the Masters 5 age group finished 34th completing the course in 2 hours 13minutes and 37 secs
In the Masters 3 men Stephen Stannard took out the silver medal in a time of 2hours 20mins 47 secs Also in this age category was John Stewart who finished 20th and Toshi Yamauchi who finished in38th.
The most outstanding feat is in the under 17 boys. Campbell Stewart took out the gold medal in a time of 1hour 54 mins and 12 secs.
This now makes Campbell the NZ champion under 17 boys holder of every National champion event in this age group.
At the track he has won the ITT, IP, points and sprint earlier this year and won the Team sprint, Team pursuit and Scratch race as 1st year under 17. He also won the Criterium held in Auckland at the end of 2013. He has now won the Road time trial and road race. An outstanding achievement.
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It has been suggested that in this day and age that where everybody has access to a computer or mobile device that can access the weekly newsletter that there is no need to post out a quarterly newsletter.
This will not only save time but also postage and printing costs.
There are a few people that don’t get the weekly newsletter because they don’t have a computer at home but this is a diminishing number. For all new club members they will still be posted out the booklet that is soon to be reprinted along with some other things that have been posted in the past to members inside newsletters.eg coffee cards and sticky ICE labels. These are normally posted out at the same time as the newsletter as it saves time rather than mailing each week when members join.
If you know of someone who is a member that doesn’t receive the weekly email newsletter because they don’t have access to it please let me know.
Or if you don’t want a hardcopy newsletter posted out please let me know.
If I don’t hear from you I will assume that you do.
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The day started with the handcycles then the under 15 boys and girls. In the boys race we had two Bike Manawatu riders. Dylan Simpson finished 17th in the bunch so recorded the same time as the winner and Thomas Stannard finished 25th.
In the Masters 3 womens road race which was combined with Masters 4 Shaz Dagg finished 5th.
In the under 17 girls Michaela Drummond took out the silver medal. Under 17 girls other Bike Manawatu riders were Emily Shearman and Libby Arbuckle ( at time of writing no official results were available)
Out on the course at the moment is masters 1 and 2 women. Bike manawatu riders in this age category are Vicki Carne and Gabrielle Bahler.
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George Hewitt made history today when he was the first ever para trike rider competing at the Club road nationals
Michaela Drummond competing in the under 17 girls time trial over a distance of 15km won the bronze medal in a time of 25mins 26 secs with the other Bike Manawatu riders in this age category Libby Arbuckle placing 6th and Emily Shearman in 12th.
In the under 19 girls Ruby Perry finished in 4th place in a time of 23.59 with Elizabeth Stannard finishing in 9th.
Barry Gilliland competed in the Masters 6 men and placed 5th in a time of 23mins 56 secs
In the under 17 boys Campbell Stewart won the gold in a time of 22mins 03 with Robert Stannard taking out the silver. Jacob Seivwright was placed 11th and Carne Groube 13th Mitchell Kinghorn 14th Chris Denholm 16th and Fergus Allan 22nd.
In the masters women 4 Megan Blatchford-Peck won the silver and in the masters women 3 Shaz Dagg was 6th with Gabrielle Bahler winning a bronze medal in the masters women 1 age category.
In the masters men 4 category Nev Weir who jumped ship and was racing for Wellington Vets finished 5th
Finally with the under 19 boys Joel Yates finished 10th, Nate Levin 14th, Alex West 15th, George Roberts 21st, James Denholm 27th and Josh Kendall 34th.
Congratulations to all that competed and particularly to the medal winners.
Good luck for the road races over the next few days.