Good Friday Race Report

Two riders attended the opening race of the O-Cup season, Chris Balestrini and Andrew Scollard. With the weather looking great for the race, we were pretty pumped to be lucky enough to race in such good conditions as last year it was about 7 degrees at Good Friday. While we were a bit rushed registering and such, made a wrong turn on the way, we felt pretty good at the start line, it was a really windy day, so we just hung in the peloton and didn't worry about the attacks at the beginning, as the pace quickened, the attacks increased, on each of the climbs in the final two laps, Chris Balestrini attacked frequently trying to get into a break with the other strong climbers, nothing took, and the largest gap achieved was only about 10seconds. With over 10km of flats to the finish a bunch sprint was in order, and with 1 km to go Chris set himself up perfectly near the front. With about 30 guys coming to the line all out, it was a crazy finish, thankfully Chris was ahead of a small crash that took out a few guys, and by a small margin took the victory! Andrew Scollard couldn't hold the pace in the end and finish off the back.

But what a great start to the season for the Reynold Cycle boys, a win in the first race of the season, also got pretty sunburnt too.