June 01, 2018 (Victoria, B.C.) – You couldn’t have gotten a more representative Canadian Championships than the 2018 Global Relay Canadian Masters Time Trial Championships which tonight crowned champions from sea to shining sea.
You would hardly know that Victoria’s Heather Simonson (Triple Shot Cycling Club) only started racing two years ago. She took back to back titles – her first national-level competition tonight winning the women’s 50-plus Canadian Masters title in 35 minutes and 55 seconds and last weekend’s 2018 BC Provincial Time Trial Masters title. Simonsen says she was inspired to race by her 20-year-old daughter, Holly Henry of Trek Red Truck who is also racing this weekend Robert W. Cameron Law Cycling Series p/b Jim Pattison Lexus elite races.
And from the other side of the country, St. John’s, Newfoundland’s (now from Calgary) Stephen Hunt took the Masters 40-49 men’s title, finishing the 21-Kilometre Energy Lab Dallas Road Time Trial in 29 minutes, 26 seconds.
Thunder Bay’s Jennifer Bell was first in the Women’s Master 30-39 category, defending her 2017 Global Relay Championship title. Her season just started in the northern Ontario town so the win was a bit unexpected. “I had no expectations – I just came out to see how I would do.”
Calgary’s Andrew Davidson (The Lead Out Project), on the other hand, came with one goal and one goal only. That was to claim the Men’s 30-39 title and he did so in convincing fashion with the fastest Championships’ clocking of 27:54:75. Davidson, 2002 juniors national time trial champion, is using every race to help him train for Canada’s tandem para-cycling team where he will join Paralympian Lowell Taylor at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games.
Victoria rolled out the welcome mat – and Oak Bay opened up the tweed curtains – for almost 200 competitors. This race-against the clock took riders along a spectacularly scenic and rare windless course on Dallas Road / Beach Drive.
The Robert W. Cameron Law Cycling Series p/b Jim Pattison Lexus and the 2018 Global Relay Canadian Masters Road Cycling Championships continues tomorrow with the Motus Design / Global Relay Canadian Masters Road Cycling Championships hitting the gruelling hills of Metchosin and the Russ Hay’s Grand Prix circling the Legislature Building criterium course on Sunday.
Sunday’s action also includes elite and junior racing, the ever-popular, “too cute for words” Tim Hortons Timbit Challenge and the rogue-ish “let’s lose the gears and the brakes” Broad Street Cycles Fixed Gear Criterium.
Time Trial Results
Men 30-39
1. Andrew Davidson (The Lead Out Project) 0:27:54
2. Cory Jay (Craftsman Construction) 0:29:11:24
3. Jeffrey Werner (Langlois Brown Racing) 0:29:36:17
Men 40-49
1. Stephen Hunt (Independent) 0:29:26:54
2. Ian Auld (Soul Sportif) 0:29:36:70
3. David Gerth (Langlois Brown Racing) 0:30:10:95
Men 50-59
1. Ron Amos (Hammer/53×11) 0:29:50:60
2. Ian Scott (Wheels of Bloor / Autostyle Collision) 0:29:53:32
3. Mick Bryson (Victoria Breakaway Cycling Club) 0:30:40:10
Men 60+
1. Robert Anderson (Cal-Nat’s Racing Team) 0:32:22:06
2. Willem Vandenberg (Whistler Cycling Club) 0:32:31:47
3. Andrew Neale (Victoria Breakaway Cycling Club) 0:33:38:95
Women 30-39
1. Jennifer Bell (Independent) 35:55:00
2. Amy L Jackson (Thunder Bay Cycling Club) 0:40:36:85
3. Nancy St-Hilaire (Edmonton Road & Track Club) 0:41:33:70
Women 40-49
1. Lorie Cochrane (Faction Smile Tiger p/b WCC) 0:34:11:78
2. Richele Frank (Pender Racing p/b Bicicletta) 0:34:34:17
3. Deanna Thomson (Pender Racing p/b Bicicletta) 0:34:44.75
Full results here.
The 2018 Robert W. Cameron Law Cycling Series include:
– EnergyLab Dallas Road Time Trial, Friday, June 1 (4 pm to 9 p.m.) Dallas Road / Beach Drive
– Motus Design Cycling Classic/ Global Relay Canadian Masters Road Cycling Championship, Saturday, June 2 (starting at 7:30 a.m. to about approximately 2 p.m.) at Liberty Road in Metchosin
– Russ Hay’s Grand Prix / Global Relay Canadian Masters Criterium Cycling Championship – Sunday, June 3 (starting at 8 a.m. with Masters championships, youth and category races through the day; the women’s elite race at 3:45 p.m. and the men’s elite, starting at 4:45 pm)
– Tim Hortons Timbits Challenge – June 3, (starting at 12:30 p.m. at the Legislature Buildings, free event for kids aged 3- 10)
– Broad Street Cycle Fixed Gear Criterium – June 3, fixed gear race starting at 6.p.m.
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