Saturday morning James and Jack from Tura Beach turned up, arriving to a huge frost and fog, keen to get going to Stromlo for practice and test out the new track. CORC organised shuttles for the day and the boys managed to get in quite a few runs as there wasn't as many people there as expected. Very happy with their days effort and looking forward to race day tomorrow.
Sunday saw an early start as Andrew had a game of league to play in Belconnen before the race so he and Mum headed out first at 8:00am. After finishing breakfast and loading up the car and trailer, the rest of the gang headed off to Stromlo to do a couple of practice runs before race time. After just getting beat by 2 points by the team that is leading the competition, Andrew was pretty happy with the result and ready to do the mad dash to Stromlo to at least get in one run before race.
Race time arrived and the support crew headed up to triple treat to watch the action from there in the freezing cold, watching the snow clouds coming over the hills behind, hoping the weather would hold out until after the race. Yet again, it was great to see some of our mates from Cooma at the race also. Team Sacred Ride Rider, Brock also made an appearance although not riding because he broke his arm skiing a couple of weeks ago! Bad luck Brock, we told you that skiing is no good for your health. Race time and all the boys passed with much cheering from the crowd, all looking to be pinning it, Thomas the only one in the U15's to do the hip jump. As soon as Andrew passed the road gap in his second run, with all our boys finished now, we decided we were'nt actually dedicated enough to stay and watch the rest of the divisions as we were frozen to the bone by now. We headed down the hill to meet up with the boys in the carpark, only to find out Jack had locked the keys in his Dad's car. Go Jack!!! Oh well, the boys wanted to hang around to find out the results anyway. You wouldn't believe it but the girl who parked next to us had locked the keys in her car too. Lucky she was in the NRMA and it only took them about 20 minutes to arrive and he helped James out as well. Phew, lucky for you Jack.
Anyway, in the mean time the results had been announced (no print outs this week due to lack of power for the printer) U15's Winner - Thomas Crimmins, U13's Winner - Andrew Crimmins. YEAH TEAM CRIMMINS. With no official results in print, as soon as we arrived home (after driving through a snow storm at Williamsdale), onto the computer to check for results. Finally about 7:45 they were there. It was official, Thomas won by 1.47 seconds and you wouldn't believe it, although watching Andrew in his race runs he was absolutely pinning it, he won by a whopping 20.27 seconds. Thomas and Ian will be heading off to Awaba in 2 weekends time for the State Championships.
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