Trailquest League -
Round 3 - 2007/08
Shimna Valley, Bryansford Road
20 January 2008
  


The third and final round of this years Trailquest Winter League, organised by Dromara Cycling Club, took place today out of Shimna Valley Centre, Bryansford Road, Newcastle.  This was a busy cycling day with Dromara CC organising a leisure cycle from the same location and the event did clash with the start of XMTB's MTB League in Bangor.  With a drizzly start to the day and the clouds hanging low over the Mournes, it was great to see 27 teams incorporating 60 riders out for fun, hard slog and lots of muck. (Some of the lanes were really sticky!)

The markers for this round were spread as far north as Castlewellan, west beyond Tollymore Forest Park, east as far as Maghera and south as far as Drinnahilly. The riders were given a map (on both sides of an A4 sheet) with 22 markers to find plus one bonus marker which was located at the Shimna Valley centre entrance. As per the last round, we only had one problem with a marker and again it looks like someone was using it for target practice !
(Map of the route that Team Purple took is given here)

The results of round three were:

Rank
 Team
 Points
 Riders
1
 Uphill Struggle
 470
 Jonny Gallier & Mark Wilson
2
 Retro Grouch
 456
 Mark Forrester & Glenn Cobain
3
 Team Purple
 430
 Eddie O'Hagan & Brendan O'Hagan
4
 C.C.A.R 1
 427
 Ivan Park & Steve Curry
5
 The Losers
 408
 Mark Smyth & Dennis McMullan & Stuart Moore
6
 Who the fox is that
 400
 Paul McMinn & David McCann & John Ruddell
6
 Barnardo Boys
 400
 John Bogues & Paul Magee
6
 Average Joe
 400
 Paul McArthur
9
 Blind Zeppelins
 380
 Martin Grimley & Ross Galway
9
 Mk1
 380
 Kieron Murphy
11
 Dromara MTB
 350
 Gary Gray & Derek Hanna
12
 Sitting Duck
 330
 Geoff Brown & Garth Williams
13
 His & Hers
 320
 Valerie O'Neill & Phillip O'Neill
14
 C.C.A.R.2
 310
 Shirley Park & Nigel Martin & Paul Cole   [J]
15
 2K's
 300
 Jon Kay & Chris Kay
16
 Phoenix
 260
 Duncan Cameron & Hilary Thomas & Ed Boyle
17
 Army of One
 250
 Camron Burns
17
 GCJ
 250
 Chris Magowan & James Gilpin & Gavin Magowan
17
 Black Sheep
 250
 Andrew Wilson & Paul Jess & Phillip Wilson
20
 Lost and Bewildered
 240
 Stephen Heasley & Niall Cochrane
21
 The Misfits
 230
 Colin Henderson & Trevor Gavin
22
 Drumaness Duo
 215
 Barry Kellett & Niamh Brady
23
 Apollogees
 210
 Derek King & A Richardson
24
 Tube & Spoon
 160
 Wilson McAlister & Adam McAlister [J] & Danny Trouton  [J]
25
 Frank Millar
 150
 Florence Millar & Keith Millar & Colin Perry
26
 Biscuits
 90
 Francis O'Hagan & Sonya Rea & Charlotte Rea  [J]
27
 Dunshann
 0
 Pat Dunbar & Alwynne Shannon

Two teams got maximum points (470) but Retro Grouch did not make it back in time and suffered a penalty which dropped 14 points from their total.
Team "Dunshann" arrived home more than 30 minutes late and unfortunately lost all the 270 points that they had worked so hard to obtain.
The average number of markers reached was 15.

After the event the riders enjoyed soup and sandwiches in the centre itself.


Finally looking back on the 3 events we can see that 9 teams did all 3 events, 9 teams did two and 38 did one (based on the teams keeping the same name throughout all 3 events).

Teams who entered all 3 events
Rank
 Team name
 Total points
1
 Who the Fox is That
 1029
2
 Team Purple
 1014
3
 C.C.A.R 1
 1003
4
 Retro Grouch
 946
5
 Barnardo Boys
 910
6
 C.C.A.R.2
 850
7
 Mk 1
 846
8
 The Sitting Duck
 740
9
 Average Joe
 580

Teams who entered two events only
Rank
 Team name
 Total points
1
 Dromara MTB
 770
2
 The Losers
 748
3
 2k's
 640
4
 The Blind Zeppelins
 540
5
 Chapsticks
 530
6
 Drumaness Duo
 465
7
 Quicksilver
 420
8
 Tube and Spoon
 310
9
 The Dream Team
 240




Trevor presents gift vouchers for Mourne Cycles to two members of team 'Who the fox is that'
(John Riddell and Paul McMinn) at Dromara CC's first 2up Time Time held on 7 April 2008.
Trevor presenting gift vouchers to two reps from team 'Who the fox is that'


If there are any typos in your names / team names above please email me.
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