The Bermuda Bicycle Association’s Road Race Season opened with a 10.8 mile Team Time Trial, with twenty-nine teams of four riders taking part.
The course ran from the Paget Post Office to Barnes Corner via Middle Road and then back along South Road to Bermuda College.
Near-perfect conditions were only diminished by a few sprinkles of rain but the cool and overcast morning let all the competitors race as maximum effort.
Taking the title overall was the Madison Digicel quartet of Dominique Mayho, Phillip Mace, Mark Robinson and Kwame Curling in a time of 24:28, making the loop at an average speed of 26.5 mph.
Though recording the second fastest time of 25:53, the Winners Edge group was disqualified, opening the door for Team Tokio’s David McComas, Fabian Schoenenberg, Pete Crayford and Dylan Hill to take second, followed by Team Rampage (Neil Lupsic, Anton Schmitz, Spencer Butterfield and Jonathan Herring).
In the Women’s category with a time of 29:57.68 Ashley Eswanik, Allison Petty and Kristin Palmer nudged the Bicycle Works Women of Wenda Roberts, Earlena Ingham, Zoey Roberts and Alyssa Rowse into second clocking 30:37.23, followed by the Winners Edge team of Tammy Ingham, Julia Hawley, Eileen Mullowney and Joanne Medeiros.
The union category was won by Bermuda Cycling Academy’s team of Ben Edwards, Rajul Matthie-Shakir and Tre Brangman while their younger teammates Ensue-Nico Davis, Manning Smith, Nazarai Fox and Ahzai Smith finished second in the category.
