June News

By Paddy Kelly,
Bray Wheelers PRO

With the national road racing championships approaching Bray's cyclists are working hard to find form.

Both of Last weeks events have been criteriums, one hour sprint events on a one mile lap.

The results came mostly from up and coming junior riders. In the phoenix park evening race Urban Monks rode a steady race conserving his energy for the finishing straight and took a well deserved first place as a junior while the senior riders where having difficulty jostling for positions Fergal Kelly took eight place.

Ger Ivory, Derek Cunningham and Frank O'Leary diversify and participated in the National Track Championships however intermitent showers made the tracks surface unpredicatable and all three riders missed out on placings. Gary Rigley another promising young rider one the club summer league on general classification having consistent results in each event.

In the Kildare town Criterium the Junior and Senior riders were set off together. The pace didn't ease up for the whole race causing creating alot of DNF's due to five sprint primes on offer,a sprint primes cash bonus been offered for the first over the line at a particular point during the race. Fergal Kelly out sprinted the Senior A riders twice earning him two primes then returned to the peleton to give Urban Monks a lead into the finishing lap. Urban went on to take first junior putting him on the podium twice in one week. Urbans excellent results should give him plenty of confidence for The Nationals in Sligo next weekend, Bray will have a full team in attendence.