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 Greetings, from Ged BelushiBase results out Did ya' catch the Katy (O'Neil)?... or did she leave you a mule to ride? There were plenty of hard headed women (and men) to be crazy 'bout at the end of the Ordeal...and speaking of hard headed - what about that Maryann Avery, coming in 2nd in her class after breaking her wrist out there...I tell you, we should have a team of  psychologists
at the
finish line - not to help you but to study you....the lot of you are
nuts!Records fell like tenpins. Katie O'Neil stripped over 31 minutes off the 50km women's record - 31 MINUTES! Annika Smail did the same (29  Carl Jones rode the 50km 19 minutes faster than last year and Carl Johnston took 10 off the 25k We will never see the like again. For those of you old enough to remember where you were when JFK went down, this is one of those moments.... well, close! And will someone please beat Carl Jones. He has won the 50 km every year - it's getting boring and predictable. We thought this year, with Ash Hough and co, Carl would be a goneburger but local knowledge got him through with bells on. These huge drops in record times was mostly down to the work of Kim van de Aa and his team of crash test dummies putting in long hours bedding in the single trails So a lot was different about this year's Ordeal - you're a bloke,  Big feature of the Ordeal this year was the "Toughest Council" challenge. It was  clearly going
to be a highlight
of
the
Ordeal when the Rotorua team arrived in a purple open top monster
flying flags, with their Mayor lycra'd up and ready to ride, complete
with specially made lightweight mayoral chains. Having thrown
down the challenge Whakatane could
but
watch in horror as rider after rider wearing the RDC livery shot across
the line, 4 of the first 5 riders, 4 beating the old course
record. Rout does not begin to describe it. To cap it all off Rotorua's mayor, Kevin Winters,  parked his well known humility for the occasion,
and suggested that Whakatane stick to sandcastle building for future
challenges - Ow! that hurts!. It's this sort of fighting talk that will make next years challenge worth coming to watch...that and the fact that some of  Cheers,  |
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