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BLIZZARDS DC CHALL CUP ETC. |
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Sunday, 28 June 2009 22:00 |
Blizzard Bike Club Fort St. John, BC June 28, 2009
The Blizzards capped off a busy weekend in Fort Nelson, Dawson Creek, Devon Alberta and Beauce, Quebec.
In Fort Nelson, three Blizzard Bike Club members competed in the Northern Rockies Triathlon held in Fort Nelson on Sunday June 28th. Billy Bucknall and Kathryn Fairweather competed in the Olympic distance race with both athletes winning their age groups as well as overall for male and female respectively. Kathryn also posted the fastest women’s bike time and Billy completed his race with fastest male swim, bike and run.
Sandy McDonald posted the fastest overall in the Sprint distance race, which is a 500m swim, 20km bike and 5 km run.
Locally, the club battled it out in Challenge Cup races 8 and 9 in Dawson Creek. Dawson Creek riders won both stages but GP won the day’s total with 53 points to 34 for the BBC and 29 for Dawson Creek the Blizzards still hold the overall lead at 320 to GP’s 186 and DC’s 92.
Trevor Kolkea of Dawson Creek won the Bear Mountain 14 km time trial with a time of 24:36. Tanner Broadbent of GP was next at 25:47 and Ken Perry third at 29:47. Other times were Dave Kay 30:46, Barb Polehoykie 31:57, Francis Plum 33:37, Warren Miller 34:08 and Pat Ferris 41:46.
Chris Garwah edged out fellow DC’er Kent Pedersen to win a very windy 40 km Ark road race. They had a time of 1:10:21. Tanner Broadbent of GP was third at 1:13:38.
Other times were Gary Hilderman 1:17:23, Dave Kay 1:17:43, Ken Perry 1:19:32, Barb Polehoykie 1:21:29, Warren Miller 1:23:25, Kevin Fell Jr 1:23:42, Ken Nix 1:23:47, Francis Plum 1:25:12, Kevin Fell Sr 1:27:44 and Jamie Maxwell 1:29:26.
Thanks to Eric Wolf for timing!
There were no results for Peter King in the Devon Stage Race or Colter Young at Nationals, at press time.
Coming up:
-Thursday Baldonnel time trial 7 pm
-Sunday road race Cecil lake at 10 :00 am.
Contingent of riders are off to the Great White North Half Ironman triathlon, in Stony Plain Alberta, this Sunday.
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