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Club League race 5 - CP, Kinnegad Circuit

The fifth round of the Club League took place on Tuesday 17th July.

Yellow Jersey Jacob Baldwin and the rest of the scratch group had their work cut out for them in this race, on a fast circuit, with no hills to slow other groups down and a big tailwind from Kinnegad each lap - they had to battle very hard to pull back the gap on the semi-scratch and limit groups, with 22mins between the first off and the scratch group.

A great effort from new member and taximan Michael Mangan meant he drove clear with 1km to go and stayed clear to take the honours, flying across the finish line to take first place.
Closely followed then by the father-son duo of Conor (former u14 community games champion) and Brendan Leech to take 2nd and 3rd.

The main peloton were a mere 45 seconds behind, and consisted of a mix of several groups which had come together on the circuit.  Scratch group were bearing down fast on this peloton, and were seconds from catching them approaching the finishline - in fact a massive burst of speed by Ger Dunne saw him jump clear of scratch, then catch and pass everyone in the peloton to take 4th place on the night, with the next dozen or so places divided up between the peloton and scratch riders.  First lady rider home was Sonja O'Mahony who performed very strongly in the group.

Overall, the league table has changed due to the 'best 4 results' rule kicking in now after 5 rounds.
Andy Flood takes over the Yellow Jersey position, and will wear the leaders Jersey for the next round.  It is very close at the top now with only a handful of points separating the first 5 positions.
Ger Dunne moves up now to 2nd place, just one point behind Andy, and Mervyn Heffernan in 3rd place, one point behind Ger - it's all hotting up now with only two more races remaining, and some riders still to take a race out for Marshaling duties!!

Here is the league table after Round 5.

Special thanks to everyone who marshaled and helped out with Lead Cars - your help is very much appreciated.

Here are some photos from the night, courtesy of Michelle Kavanagh (great job Michelle, well done again!!!)





Here are the results for the race - please also check the Rota for Marshaling because we only have 2 races left and a few people have not yet marshaled, and therefore risk having points deducted at the end of the league (also, we don't want a situation where we have 50 marshals on the last night, and no one in the race!!!).

round 5 results


Please also check with the Marshalling rota in case you are scheduled to marshal this race.
!! Don't forget that a penalty applies if you haven't marshalled a race !!

Overall league table, after round 5 is here


The circuit was 3 laps of the mainly flat Kinnegad circuit that we have used last year.  Each lap is 14km long, and the finish line was be just before Clonard Village on the last lap.  Total distance for the race is 41km (approx).

Here is a link to the race circuit.





 

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