HMBA Dungog Round 2019 has been run and one – this is a race best summarised in numbers:
110 – Riders entered for the main race – massive!
3 – Hours of Riding around Dungog’s finest trails (for most – we had 5 entries for the 1.5 hour short course)
7.1 – km Loop including some fresh new stuff
23 – Degrees of perfect riding weather – not a drop of rain despite the forecast
12 – Female Racers riding solo and in teams
15 – or so Kids having a go at the trails
9 – Laps completed by the race winner
4 – eBikes competing in the first ever HMBA eBike category
1 – Adaptive Cyclist braving the trails – another first for Dungog
167 – Rocks marked with a small yellow dot
6241 – Other Rocks!
Congratulations again go out to our winners – the speedster Mitch Lozinski once again held out Liam McGuire to take the big solo honours, with Trenton Day rounding out the top 3 for A-Grade. For the solo females we saw Em Dreaper cross the line first from Laura Renshaw, both knocking out 7 laps, with Cassandra Thompson in 3rd. Other Results of note:
Mixed Teams –
1st – “Twins” – Dean Megahey and Sean Mahony
2nd – “Tippies” – George Castillo and Dean Brame
3rd – “RCRC” – Waz Turnbull and David Morley
B-Grade Solo –
1st – Rodney Rae Olivia Gollan
2nd – James Saunders Sarah Hunter
3rd – Scott Wevers Hayley Thorpe
C-Grade Solo –
1st – Dave Tattis
2nd – James Sulzberger
3rd – Michael Bowen
eBike –
1st – Bruce Pain
2nd – Josh Bridson
3rd – Dieter Benischke
A huge thank you needs to go out to Alan Shrimpton and his crew for looking after the Dungog trails and setting up a fantastic course for us today (sure, some of the new bits were a bit sketchy to begin with but I think we started to bed them in nicely), and also to The Tinshed Brewery in Dungog for their donation to the event – if you haven’t called in to this place then add it to the list for next time you are in town – great food and some nice amber nectar to wash it down.
Final results can be access at this link:
https://my4.raceresult.com/138002/results?lang=en
Or download one of these documents:
HMBA Club Racing Results – XC – Dungog 3 Hour – 220919
HMBA Club Racing Results – XC – Dungog 1-5 Hour – 220919
Any issues with these results please email presidenthmba@gmail.com
We would also like to get some feedback from all Riders on how they felt that the inclusion of the eBike Category went – did it affect you in any way? Any constructive criticism will be gladly received – we want to keep it off the public forums for now so answer by emailing the Club President on presidenthmba@gmail.com
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