Club racing concluded for 2014

Sunday, August 31, 2014
Ballymena Road Club – Chain Reaction Cycles – concluded their 2014 Northstone sponsored series of mid-week club events with two races last week.
Wednesday saw a 10 miles time trial on the A26 course at Woodgreen while the series was concluded on Friday night with the Sherdan Caldwell memorial hill climb at Crebilly.
Steven Workman was fastest in Wednesday night’s 10 miles time trial with a time of 20 minutes 53 seconds. Jason Burns had yet another personal best performance – this time it was 21.51 which earned him second place overall on actual time and also first place in the handicap section.
Not to be out done Jason’s wife Eileen also recorded a personal best of 22 minutes 48 seconds for third place. (4) Daryl Sempey 24.51 (5) Claire Gillespie 25.15 (PB) (6) Laura Blair 25.23 (7) John Maxwell 25.35
Handicap result (1) Jason Burns 23.11 (2) Claire Gillespie 23.24 (3) Eileen Burns 23.40 (4) J Maxwell 23.58 (5) Laura Blair 24.05 (6) D Sempey 24.49
Several visiting riders also took part in the BRC 10, on what could only be described as a blustery evening.
Three of them, Marcus Christie, John Madden and Mark Downey, were there in an attempt to break the Irish records for the distance and, given the conditions, few would have expected the record times to be bettered.
However Mark Downey (NRPT) set a new time of 19.42 to smash the existing junior record which stood at 20.28, and John Madden equaled the veterans record with a time of 19.40.
Marcus Christie recorded 18 minutes 37 seconds and narrowly missed the senior record of 18.21. 
Commissaire Aidan Higgins was on hand to oversee the record attempts in the event, as was the timekeeping trio of Alan Mark, Billy Jebb and Andrew Wills.
Colin wins for fourth time at Crebilly.
Colin Scullion successfully defended his Crebilly Hill Climb title on Friday night when he recorded 1 minute 23.02 seconds to win the event for the fourth time.
Youth section rider Breandan McCavana was runner up with 1 minute 30.83 seconds. Breandan also clinched the Ballymena schools championship with this performance. This year’s schools event was decided on a combined points score over the Sandy Spence cup road race at Glarryford and the Crebilly hill climb.
Joel McCavana was second overall and Caolan Stuart third. The Brian Russell inter-schools trophy goes to St Louis grammar school.
The other results from the Sherdan Caldwell memorial hill climb were (3) Richard Reid 1-37.27 (4) Nigel Kernohan 1-38.88 (5) Daryl Sempey 1-40.33 (6) Claire Gillespie 1-55.93 (7) Isaac McAuley (Bann Valley) 1-57.81 (8) Joel McCavana 2-24.23 (9) Brian McAuley (Bann Valley) 3-32.44

Colin Scullion’s previous successes came in 2005, when he recorded 1 minute 24.94 seconds; 2006 1 minute 17.18 seconds and 2013 1 minute 22.59 seconds.
The event record is held by Ryan Connor who recorded 1 minute 12.81 seconds in 2007.