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MAY

The GGIB cycling team began its season campaign at the Phillip Island A & B Grade open race, held on the grand prix circuit.

Excerpt from article in Shepparton News below:

Two placings handed Shepparton’s A-grade cycling team a great start to the road season at Saturday’s Phillip Island Grand Prix.

Warhorse: Shepparton’s Leigh Egan on his way to 15th placing in the Phillip Island Grand Prix.

Wangaratta’s Ashley Baines was involved in the race-winning second break and ultimately came sixth behind two-time Giro D’Italia competitor Tom Leaper, of Croydon Cycling Club.

Steele von Hoff and David Pell completed the podium behind Leaper, with Baines’ Shepparton team member Leigh Egan — who won the race two years ago — finishing strongly for 15th.Shepparton Olympian Steve Fairless joined Baines and others in the initial breakaway after 10 of the 25 laps of the 4.44 km circuit before the chasing pack brought them back. Baines was the only Shepparton team member to go when a group of riders broke away soon after. ‘‘We had a plan to put (Baines) into the break because we knew the break would go,’’ Egan said.

‘‘It generally finishes in a bunch sprint, so, if it was going to come back, I was ready to do my thing, but we rode a good tempo.‘‘The VIS had missed the break, so they were trying to bring it back and we were trying to bring it back ourselves because I had more chance of winning (in a sprint finish) than Ashley.’’Egan said it was a great result for the Shepparton team.‘‘You’re looking at 240 starters, so we’re more than happy to have two guys in the top 20,’’ he said.‘‘We’re only in the first couple of races of the year, so we’re going all right."‘Steve led me out there (for the finish), but I didn’t sprint as well as I would have liked, either, but only early days.‘‘Trent Stevenson was in everything, too.’’

Egan also praised new team member Ben Goodall, who has changed his immediate sporting focus from triathlons to cycling.‘‘Everyone rode really well. Ben Goodall was a little bit inexperienced, but he hung in there and finished,’’ Egan said.‘‘Ben’s racing again this weekend in Rutherglen in it’s the open handicap race up there. ‘‘We’ll all be going— it’s a good (110 km) race.’’Shepparton’s other two teams endured mixed results.Egan said Mark Thompson, Tony Michel and Nathan Glynn ‘‘rode well’’, while Garry Leed recovered from a fall to complete the race.

APRIL

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MARCH 2011

The Team Had Four Members Race Ironman NZ With Some Great Results. Anne MacLean (Just over 11 hrs), Anthony Rule (9hr:18min) & Miah Franzmann (Just over 11 hours) all earned Kona spots over in NZ!!! All three also cracked the podium in their respective age groups. Team Captain Ben Goodall also had a solid race and a PB (9hrs 43 mins).

Check out below some images from the extremely wet day (more to come) and some local newspaper articles that ran after the race.