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Some 50-60 of the Caribbean region’s best junior riders are expected in Bermuda for the 4th Junior Caribbean Cycling Championships. They will be joined by Bermuda’s own team, many of whom are products of the BBA’s new senior school cycling program. That program, the brainchild of BBA President, Dunne, has been rolled out at Cedarbridge Academy and the Berkeley Institute, and has already produced a crop of fresh talent. Also included in the team are bronze medalists from the 2008 championships, Hayley Evans and Sophie Adams.
Ten riders, including 2008 medalists Evans and Adams, will represent Bermuda. Three other girls will join these two to for a strong team with medal potential. Claire Hawley, Michaela Eberly and Izabella Arnold will all compete in this event for the first time, bringing power to the local female team.
Team Bermuda’s male squad is comprised of five riders, 4 in the younger Juvenile category (ages 15/16) and one in the Junior category. Philip Woolridge, a veteran of all of the prior three Junior Championships, will be the sole local represntative in the extremely difficult Junior group. Teammates Ryan Gunn, Tre’Shun Correia, Marquis Cann and Dominique Mayho will compete in the Juvenile category. Gunn participated in the 2008 Championships in Curacao while Correia, Cann and Mayho have come into cycling in the past year through the program at Berkeley.
The two-day event comprises a time trial on Saturday (July 25) and a road race on Sunday (July 26).
In the time trial, competitors will start individually at one minute intervals and ride a 17.5km course as fast as they can. The course selected for this testing event starts on Middle Road in Paget at the junction with Valley Road, heads west on Middle Road to Barnes Corner, and then returns east on South Road to finish at the entrance to the Bermuda College. The first rider is scheduled to start at 7:00AM and the last rider should have completed the course shortly after 8:30AM.
The BBA wants to take the opportunity to advise the motoring public of potential delays on the race course. Traffic is prohibited from travelling on the course in the direction of the race while the event is in progress. Middle Road will be closed to west-bound traffic at the Paget lights from 6:30AM to approximately 8:30AM.
Indeed, Time Trial Race Director, Nigel Godfrey, is appealing to members of the public to give up a couple of hours of their Saturday morning and to volunteer as marshals to support this event and to try to ensure the safety of the riders. Anyone living close to the route can contact Nigel at ngodfrey@ibl.bm if they are able to assist”, said Dunne.
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