2005 VICTORIAN MOUNTAIN BIKE ORIENTEERING - State Series #8

Good spring weather greeted the 61 starters at Daylesford riding on the "Brandy Hot" map for the second last event in this year's State Series. There are quite a few hills on this map and careful route selection was important to try and minimise the number of climbs. Some riders were complaining about their lack of recent training to make the best of the climbs, but should be a good workout for the upcoming championship events. Corse setter, Keith Wade reports that,"I thought beforehand that I had made the courses too easy, but it turned out that this country is more difficult than I had estimated - some roads were very slow going."

Paul Leicester rode well to take out course 1 for the first time with a time not that much longer than Tim Hately who was fastest on Course 2. Good to see our younger competitors who rode in the recent Schools MTBO Champs coming along for some more. We are hoping that a lot of them will make it to the Victorian and Australian Champs in October and November.

Many thanks to the Tuckonie club for putting on the event, especially Keith Wade as course setter and Peter Prime as organiser. Special thanks to the non-MTBO Tuckonie members who faithfully come out every year to help run their event.

The next and final round for this year will see the series move to Gippsland for the first time. At Mirboo North on Sunday October 9. See the webpage for details. This new map boasts some great riding tracks and roads and should prove a boon for new riders from east of Melbourne.

 

Regards

Peter Cusworth

Vic MTBO Coordinator

 

 

BRANDY HOT - Sunday 4th September 2005

RESULTS

COURSE 1                    28km

Men A:

1. Paul Leicester              AKV                  98.29

2. Tony Clark                                  BK                    108.18

3. Paul Liggins                              MFR                  112.28

4. Mark Geary                                  BK                    119.00

5. Anthony Jones                -                      136.26

COURSE 2                    21km

Women A:

1. Tanya Beecham                -                      120.14

Men 40 - 49:

1. Tim Hatley                                  BK                    90.51

2. Cormac McCarthy                        YV                    113.21

3. Bruce Paterson              BK                    DNF

Men 50 - 59:

1. Peter Cusworth              BK                    97.01

2. Graham Valles                DR                    117.11

3. Tim Dent                          YV                    119.07

4. John Chellew                              BG                    120.35

5. Ray Sheldon                                YV                    125.17

6. Mark Valentine              EU                    147.07

Men B:

1. Tim Armstrong                NE                    131.39

Men B Pair:

1. Toby Cooper/Ted van Geldemalsen    98.54

2. Mark Horner/L Meinke                          166.56

COURSE 3                    15km

Women 50 - 59:

1. Peter Whitford              YV                    101.28

2. Kathy Liley                                YV                    DNF

Men Under 16:

1. Luke Grinton                              -                      110.10

Men 60+

1. John Sheahan                              BK                    96.39

2. Blake Gordon                              EU                    104.07

3. Peter Searle                              BE                    111.40

4. Kevin Maloney                NE                    125.31

Men C:

1. Mick Hodgson                              -                    85.46

2. Geoff Armstrong                        NE                    91.30

3. Aaron Donnelly              -                      101.02

4. Stephen Balharrie                    EU                    104.50

5. Jefferson Hopewell      TK                    114.16

6. Ian Mortenson                NK                    122.23

7. Jason Weston                              -                      126.23

8. Stuart Lloyd                              -                      132.54

9. Gary Prisco                                BK                    141.58

10. Peter Maloney              NE                    143.26

11. Glenn Koller                BRA                  166.05

12. Craig Robison              BRA                  166.07

13. Darron Weston              -                      176.03

14. Peter Weston                NK                    190.00

COURSE 4                    10km

Women 60+

1. Dale Ann Gordon                        EU                    113.10

2. Jenny Sheahan                BK                    115.50

Women Under 14:

1. Jasmine Sunley              TK                    64.22

Women C:

1. Julie Sunley                              TK                    77.20

2. Margaret Barker                        EU                    80.03

3. Carolyn Cusworth                      BK                    81.33

4. Tania Elderkin              -                      82.53

5. Pam Prime                                    TK                    84.57

6. Joyce Rowlands              -                      88.24

7. Jackie Sheldon              YV                    103.55

Men D:

1. Duang Tribe                                -                      65.12

2. Graeme Cadman                YV                    85.41

3. Darren Sandford                        YV                    85.46

4. Gordon Clarke                YV                    115.54

5. Dick Barker                                EU                    DNF

COURSE 5                    6km

1. David Elms                                  -                      26.43

2. Morgan Clark                              BK                    30.50

3. Reanna Clark                              BK                    35.34

4. Tom McKee                                    -                      36.54

5. Sean Sunley                                TK                   59.27