Bike the Bruce O-Cup #5

Greg gets the gold for the team!

The weekend of May 24th had The Healing Cycle sending 4 riders to the first ever Owen Sound O-Cup. To date, this was the longest race of the year at 124km on a relatively flat but undulating course, with good weather, and as expected, stiff winds. With Pav being the current Ontario Cup point’s leader, the team needed to balance going for the win and helping Pav obtain more points to remain in the lead. Throughout the race, Pav kept a watchful eye on his closest rival in the point’s race in case he tried to break clear to gain more points. A group of 3 riders eventually did go clear at 45km and stayed out there for over 40km until work from Francois and 2 riders from rival teams helped neutralize it. In the last 15km there were many small group attacks with Bruce and Greg covering most of these to ensure we had a strong finish. With 5 km to go on a technical twisty stretch of the course, Bruce launched an attack and broke clear alone for 3km taking the pressure of the team to chase late race breakaways. With Bruce back in the pack, the sprint finish came down to a 2 up drag race for the last 250m between Greg and a rider from the Ziggy’s team, and it was a well timed bike throw by Greg that won the race by the slimmest of margins, 200ths/sec! Pav finished a credible 9th place adding valuable points to further increase his O-Cup lead!

Master 1 Men
Name Team Total

1 STANOJEVIC, Pavle HEALING CYCLE BIKE CLUB 43
2 DAVIS, Kevin WHEELS OF BLOOR 33
3 SCHMIDT, Matthias ZM CYCLE & FITNESS CYCLING 33
4 EUGENI, Paolo Z- TEAM 25
5 CAVANAGH, Greg HEALING CYCLE BIKE CLUB 25
6 DAGENAIS, Richard INDEPENDENT 25
7 HAWKES, Craig THE CYCLERY 20
8 VINCZE, Jason SOUND SOLUTIONS 20
9 ABRAMAVICIUS, Tony WHEELS OF BLOOR 19
10 MCKEE, Mike RACER SPORTIF/MATTAMY 18
11 MCARTHUR, Stirling HEALING CYCLE BIKE CLUB 17
12 SQUIRES, Charlie TEAM LONDON 16
13 BOUDREAU, Marc RIDE WITH RENDALL 16
14 LEES, Andrew TEAM ULTRALINK 16
15 POLSINELLI, Mark Z- TEAM 13

3 Healing Cycle guys in the top 15 best placed masters racers in Ontario. We are proud of the team work and achievements from the entire team. Their determination and commitment to each other has exemplified how racing as a team can lead to great results.