Lakeland RR No1

Last night I made the 1 hour trip to Enniskillen for my Road Clubs first League race of the season. The race attracted all the usual entries from our neighbouring clubs and id say we had a total of 35-40 competitors on the start line.

The course was one loop of 23.5miles with some slight hills but nothing to sever. The Race was as usual run as a handycap event with 4 groups of varying ability on the road. Each group had around 10 riders so in theory the fast men who would start last, would hopefully catch the slower riders about 2miles from the finnish and so leaving everybody on an even keel to fight for the sprint!

I went in the last group or the scratch group, which was good fun as we where all challanged or pushed near/over our limits to try and catch the groups in front of us.

As expected we caught everybody at the half way point and the cat and mouse games began between myself, Paul, Brian, Dane, Raymond and Kenny Boylan.

Brian Mimniagh ended up the deserving winner and, I think this could be his first win in a RR?? (could be wrong) once again a very hard fought and deserved win. Kenny came second after being outsprinted by Brian and about 30 secs later Paul led our group in followed by Dane and Myself.

I have to say its great to see the Omagh Club back on form and winning races, as I have alot of friends in the club and would regulary go training with them, I know how hard theyv worked as a team over the winter and thankfully the results are coming in for them and long may it continue.

As for us Lakelanders where still fired up and seem to be going strong, where really looking forward to the interclub races this year as we have defo got some more competition in the form of Omagh, East Tyrone, Fintona and Emyvale.........Ohhhh cant wait!!!