Post Tour Commentary and Winners
For those who made it, it was sooo great having you with us over the weekend.
Well done to if you competed in the 2017 Capital Cycles Two Day Tour. A great weekend of competitive riding. It was perfect conditions on Day 1 - Prologue and Stage 2 road racing and despite weather bombs hitting other parts of the country and slightly wet and blustery conditions on Sunday at the startline for stage 3, Wairarapa managed to let the sun out and calm the winds down to provide good conditions for stage 3 racing.
2017 tour broken in to three stages - Stage 1 - Prologue is all about you, your bike and the road, nothing else, the Race of Truth; Stage 2 - Road race is about getting over Edge Hill then surviving the rollers in to Martinborough for the bunch sprint finish, and stage 3 is getting yourself over Millar's Rd (Twice for A - C grades) then its all about enduring Hinekura Hill and then the final hill sprint to the finish line. Great to see new riders to the tour in particular those riders in D and E grade, and also great to see our annual competitors to the tour racing for line honours and podiums.
The racing was heated in more ways then one with stiff competition across all five grades, with riders from all over NZ and out to the west with our cousins from Australia, to spit out the front our podium and medal winners for 2017.
Congratulations to our overall grade medal recipients in all five grades and the overall female tour winners.
Overall Female Tour Winners (new category)
1st Place (Gold): Kirsten Hagen - Wellington (B Grade)
2nd place (Silver): Natalie Howell - Wellington (C Grade)
3rd Place (Bronze): Rachael Cunningham - Wellington (C Grade)
A Grade
1st Place (Gold): Andy Hagen - Wellington
2nd place (Silver): Brendan McGrath - Lower Hutt
3rd Place (Bronze): Kane McCollum - Wellington
B Grade
1st Place (Gold): Jonathan Leonard - Upper Hutt
2nd place (Silver): Peter James - Masterton
3rd Place (Bronze): Shane Collett - Wellington
C Grade
1st Place (Gold): Natalie Howell - Wellington
2nd place (Silver): Chris Pinkney - Palmerston North
3rd Place (Bronze): Rachael Cunningham - Wellington
D Grade:
1st Place (Gold): Phil Devlin - Palmerston North
2nd place (Silver): John Bowditch - Upper Hutt
3rd Place (Bronze): Roger Higgison - Lower Hutt
E (Elite) Grade
1st Place (Gold): James Betteridge - Crofton Downs
2nd place (Silver): Kara Daly - Wellington
3rd Place (Bronze): Elizabeth Tomlinson - Wellington
1st place Tandem - Mike Parker/Peter Jones
Congratulations to you all.
Full race results can be found <here>.
Huge thanks to Mike Elliott - Tour Director for organising another great tour which may not be his last. Thanks again to our sponsors - Capital Cycles, Place Recruitment and Porirua Motor Body Repairs.
The 2018 Two Day Tour is now less then a year away - pencil the date in to your 2018 diary over the 2018 Wellington Anniversary weekend.
The club looks forward to seeing you again on the start line.
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