Forty-nine PBs, fifty-four riders faster than 40km/h and our first rider in the 90-99M category. No, Hal didn't ride a PB but it was his best time in the past three years and he beat his standard time and negatively split the two 20km segments. He looked pretty pleased with the effort; his fans were very pleased.

At the pointy end of the results listing, in the first twenty places, you had a 50% chance of being in the 40-49M Masters category. But it was young Ben Cureton who took the Gold medal place for the Men from Matt Illingworth this year with Matt Dec posting a PB for third place and less than a minute covering the first four riders. Just behind that group on Standard time and fastest amongst the Women with yet another PB for the season, was Jenny Sammons in her very special new white booties (and skinsuit). Nathalie Laurendeau and Claire McLean took the other medals for the girls with all three of them within about thirty seconds.

When Robin Warrington fronted up today to send 152 riders on their way at 45sec intervals, it was going to require a pretty sustained effort of concentration for a couple of hours. It was made a lot easier today by all but a very few riders turning up to take their allocated spots; and helped too by having Neilly and Karl McIntyre, replaced later by Lorraine, feeding the riders through to him. Across the road Joe Cox looked after the comings and goings through the entrance to the Community Centre while the registrations desk within the centre was managed by most of the Geneve family: Leanne, Christa and Annie. John Andrews and Karl McIntyre were our roving marshals while Harry and Judy Perry looked after the far turn into Dehaer Rd. Our friends from WARP managed traffic at the main intersections either end of the Rowley Rd section of the course. Thanks to everyone for contributing to another very good Championship event.