Carryduff to Ballynahinch There and Back - (28th June 2010)

A pleasant evening with a sunset made a change from standing around shivering in the rain. The format was a straight 10K run down the A24 turning on 30 mins as they say in swimming terminology. The return journey provides more uphill and most people took 2-3 mins longer completing this leg.

A welcome back to John McManus who has been off travelling for the last 3 months. McManus once a "player" last year now finds himself with some remedial biking to do which he is well up for.

In the ladies competition Lowry showed a rare chink in her armour and dropped to third leaving McConnell to bask in the glory.

The mens competition had some very close together results with the difference probably coming down to being able to clip-in faster than the other person.

There has not been a joke this year so here's one to get the guys thinking on the next wet Sunday:
One morning a mad cycling nut gets up for his normal 3 hour morning training ride. He kisses his wife, still in bed, says goodbye and heads out. He is met with gale force winds, driving rain, hail and lightening strikes. After 10 minutes of being blown around, getting soaking wet and nearly hit by lightening he calls it quits heads home and quietly gets back into bed.
"Wow it's really horrible weather out there," he whispers.
"Yeah," says the wife, "can you believe my stupid husband is out there?"

Girls

1 Ali McConnell      17:06 20:09 37:15
2 Aisling Trainor    17:24 20:36 38:00
3 Judith Lowry       17:35 20:58 38:33
4 Angela Burns       18:57 22:12 41:09

Boys

1 Paul Carroll       13:55 16:06 30:01
2 Eamon Hill         13:55 16:08 30:03
3 Enda Marron        14:02 16:34 30:36
4 Vaughan Purnell    14:24 16:57 31:21
5 Matt Allum         14:24 17:24 31:48
6 Thomas Leitch      14:48 17:27 32:15
7 Colm Hanratty      14:55 17:43 32:38
8 David Morrissey    14:55 17:54 32:49
9 Glen Pollock       15:12 17:47 32:59
10 Desi McHenry      15:06 17:55 33:01
11 Davy Calvert      15:06 17:59 33:05
12 Peter Morrison    14:59 18:12 33:11
13 Dave Lonnen       15:14 18:04 33:18
14 Clifford Rodgers  15:27 18:08 33:35
15 Marty Lennon      15:26 18:30 33:56
16 Kieran McVeigh    15:22 18:41 34:03
17 John McManus      15:52 18:22 34:14
18 Karl King         15:43 19:19 35:02
19 Niall Magee       15:57 19:10 35:07
20 Johnny Davis      16:05 19:14 35:19
21 Garrett Greene    16:48 19:34 36:22
22 Kevin Allan       17:39 21:42 39:21
23 Patrick Dewer     19:55 25:03 44:58

Thanks to timekeepers: Neville, Wes, Anne and (?)