New 2 Up Champions Crowned but only just
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In Dromara CC there is this trophy that exists for the 2 Up and every year I thought it was called the Magowan Trophy. The reason being that I have only seen it being presented to Chris and Gavin. There have been times when some have come close, but this year they came into the second round of the 2 Up with work to do to overhaul the team of Matt Armstrong & David Dickson while also looking over their shoulder at the team of Smyth & Mullan. A whole 17 seconds separated the top 3 teams with Watson & Ferguson not too far back.
With last minute change to the course due to safety concerns it was decided to run Hillsborough to Ballynahinch and then we added a headwind because we wouldn’t want to make it too easy. The great weather brought quite a few teams out for the evening making it a very competitive all round.
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On a windy night the person in front is fighting the head wind and they always need a bit of encouragement – I believe that was Matthew Armstrongs thinking when shouting at David to go faster and dig in as he sat on his wheel. A man clearly concerned about the other teams and he should have been concerned. When they hit the finish line Smyth & Mullan would set the fastest time of the night with Armstrong & Dickson the second fastest. With this knowledge there was a new team to be crowned champions but which team? Alas Ronnie and Nathan took 12 secs off their rivals and missed the top spot by a mere 5 seconds allowing the new 2 Up Champions of Matthew Armstrong and David Dickson to be Crowned. In the end 35 seconds separated the top 3 teams and I am sure the Magowans will be back next year to try and reclaim their trophy.
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If you thought that was the only race happening then you would be wrong as completing this in the fastest time possible was still on everyones mind. Young Ben Wilson fresh from winning his Silver medal at the Ulster MTB XC gave his Dad a more than decent tow around this course. Emma and Lisa were another team who were big into shouting encouragement to each other although I am pretty sure I didn’t hear Emma doing much shouting. Without doubt an awesome effort ladies and I’ll need to speak to my top officials regarding Cathy and Roisins time to see which team came out on top.
Ride of the night is always hard to call but this week it was a little easier as young Lexi tow’d her dad around this course putting in a sterling effort. Thats two TT’s in a row and if she lines up at Begney then she has got to be hot favourite to take the win. I can only assume this rich vain of form is all the secret training she is doing for the up coming cyclocross season.
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Many thanks, as always, to our team of volunteers.
Start line – Barry Van K and Eddie D
Annahilt – Colin McG, Darren McC and Neil A
Finish line – John S
Next week is the final round of the Club league with our traditional hill Climb. Lots of talk of records to be beaten but more importantly it has league points and i hear that points make Club League Champions. The final Club League table will be published at the weekend for you all to check but from what I hear it is very close at the top.
Photos can be found here(facebook) or here(flickr)
Below is the results for the night:
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