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GMBC Cyclo-Cross Race 28th
October 2001
Mugdock Country Park
What a great turn out!! - After an extensive promotion drive
which started with hundreds of leaflets being handed out and
finished up with a brilliant 3/4 page article in the Saturday
edition of the Glasgow Herald and a Radio Scotland Outdoor
interview, we got the biggest turn out to a Cyclo Cross race
for a very long time. The weather was really good and considering
the huge amount of rain that has fallen the last few weeks
the course held up pretty well over the loop of 0.85 of a
mile.
We had 52 riders take to the starting line for the Men's
race which included the Vets and started 1:30 minutes ahead
of the Women,Junior and Youth riders who made up another 9
riders. With such a large field it was always going to be
a bit of a squeeze at the first corner no matter how far into
the race that was, but it was actually at the second corner
that caught Jonathan McBain pushing too hard on his Cyclo
Cross bike only to skid and fall, and after picking himself
up he would always be struggling to make it back to the front.
The first lap saw Dan Whitehead (riding a Cross bike) from
Aberdeen emerge just ahead of a pack which included Iain Nimmo
and Gareth Montgomery, but by the 2nd lap Nimmo was out in
front where he stayed until Fredric Morestin (also on a Cross
bike) took the lead on the 5th lap and started to build up
a lead which he was never going to give up.
The battle for 2nd heated up with Nimmo falling back to 3rd
and Whitehead staying in front of him during the last three
laps only for Nimmo to just pull a slight advantage in the
last few hundred yards to claim 2nd by 3 seconds.
The Women's race was won by Sarah Gillam who is having a
great season after declaring that she was not going to race
quite so much this year, but has still managed to get a huge
amount of podium placings!
Full results
Men's Race
Position - Rider Name - Club/Sponsor Time 1Hour plus
1st - Fredric Morestin - SC Les Abrets (France) 5:40 - 12
laps
2nd - Iain Nimmo - Merlin/Rocklobster/Stirling BC 6:05
3rd - Dan Whitehead - unattached - Aberdeen 6:08
4th - Stephen Jackson - GMBC/Alpine Bikes 7:20
5th - Gareth Montgomery - Raleigh 7:30
6th - Jon Plunkett - Sandy Wallace Cycles 8:15
7th - James Melville - Glasgow United 8:45
8th - Jonathan McBain - Midlothian RT 9:10
9th - Stephen Cooper - Glasgow United 9:31
10th - Roddy Yarr - GMBC/Alpine Bikes 9:51
11th - Steve Martin - unattached 9:55
12th - Matt Carr - Volvo/Cannondale 10:16
13th - Andrew Gowan - GMBC/Alpine Bikes 10:52
14th - Alan Quinn - Glasgow United 11 laps
15th - David Lindsay - Midlothian RT 11 laps
16th - Andrew Cox - Midlothian RT 11 laps
17th - Jason Hamersley - GMBC/Alpine Bikes 11 laps
18th - Gordon Bathgate - GMBC/Alpine Bikes 11 laps
19th - Findlay Pretzel - Midlothian RT 11 laps
20th - Iain Bell - unattached 11 laps
21st - Alan MacLean - Glasgow United 11 laps
22th - George Buchanan - Glasgow United 11 laps (after a puncture
at the start - well done George for keeping going after starting
5 minutes down!! )
23rd - Graham Munro - unattached 11 laps
24th - Alastair Ross - GMBC/Alpine Bikes 11 laps
25th - Chris Marquis - unattached 11 laps
26th - John D. McCaffery - Fife Cycling 2000 11 laps
27th - Kieran Hay - Stirling Bike Club 10 laps
28th - David Taylor - unattached 10 laps
29th - Martin Steele - unattached 10 laps
30th - Phil Burnside - unattached 10 laps
31st - Alan Byford - GMBC/Alpine Bikes 10 laps
32nd - Gary Donaghey - unattached 10 laps
33rd - Richard Knox - GMBC/Alpine Bikes 10 laps
34th - Neil Martin - unattached 10 laps
35th - John Carroll - unattached 9 laps
36th - Alastair Briggs - unattached 9 laps
37th - Donald Smith - unattached 9 laps
38th - Martin Whitehead - unattached 9 laps
39th - Duncan Warwick - Deeside Thistle/Union Trans 9 laps
40th - Paul Kirkwood - unattached 9 laps
41st - Steven P. Lockhart - Burninghill MTB 9 laps
42nd - Danny Donnelly - unattached 8 laps
43rd - Richard Barton - Stirling BC/Wheels 8 laps
44th - Iain McDonald - unattached 8 laps
45th - Steven Clubb - Angus Bike Chain 7 laps
46th - Steve McEwen - Leisure Lakes/Stirling BC 2 laps - retired
with mechanical
47th - David Jarvie - unattached 2 laps - retired
Vet Men
1st - Dougie Fox - Glasgow United 10 laps
2nd - David Frame - unattached 10 laps
3rd - Mark Elder - GMBC/Alpine Bikes 9 laps
4th - Allan Douglas - EK Triathlon 9 laps
Junior
1st - Steven Paterson - unattached 11 laps
Youth
1st - Alastair Millar - Full Mental/Riks Bike Shed 11 laps
2nd - Douglas Shearer - Stirling BC 9 laps
3rd - Dean Martin - unattached (he is only 10 yrs old!!) 8
laps
Women
1st - Sarah Gillam - GMBC/Alpine Bikes 9 laps
2nd - Christine Allan - GMBC/Alpine Bikes 8 laps
3rd - Val Belton - GMBC/Alpine Bikes 8 laps
4th - Carol Martin - unattached 7 laps
5th - Fiona Land - GMBC/Alpine Bikes 7 laps
Thanks once again to all who showed up to race and help out.
Don't forget to get your entries for the Champs in ASAP -
it's not that long until the 9th December and if you send
it now you won't need to worry about any hassle. Send entries
to Peter Siebelt - 3 Dougalston Gardens South, Milngavie,
Glasgow, G62 6HS
Cheers
Pete
GMBC
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