Whitehorse Daily Star

VeloNorth wraps up most successful season

The Last Gasp Time Trial was held Sunday south of Whitehorse.

By Whitehorse Star on September 3, 2007

The Last Gasp Time Trial was held Sunday south of Whitehorse.

Starting at Jake's Corner, the course traveled due north 40 kilometers on the Alaska Highway to just past the McClintock River Bridge.

Ordinarily there are fairly strong winds from the South pushing the riders along, and on a course that has a net elevation loss of about 30 meters, fast times can be the order of the day.

Hoping for the best of both worlds a tailwind and a downhill course 10 riders took in this last event on the VeloNorth Cycling Club's 2007 schedule. The Last Gasp also served to finalize the results in the season-long Points Series competition. Several winners would be determined based on the results of this race.

By race start time at 11 a.m. the temperatures had warmed to a balmy 6 C and the wind was non-existent. Despite the disappointing wind conditions, some excellent performances were recorded.

Trina Irving won the expert women's category in a time of 71 minutes and 29 seconds. This result earned her 20 points and she vaulted to second on the expert women's points list, just three points behind champion Allison Furniss.

John Berryman was holding an 11-point lead in the sport men's class going into Sunday's time trial. Berryman won his category in a time of 59:47, and in the process ended up with 102 points for the season, some thirty points ahead of second-place finisher Darren Holcombe. Berryman's point total was the highest in any category.

Shannon Meakins held an insurmountable lead going into this last race in the novice women's category, and by virtue of her second-place ride ended the season with 44 points and a nice trophy for the mantle.

Tiffany Duncan, entering her first race of the season, won the novice women's time trial Sunday and posted the fastest time of all women riders.

The Last Gasp Time Trial marked the end to VeloNorth's most successful season ever. A total of 82 cyclists took part in 26 events organized by VeloNorth, starting April 25 and ending on Sept. 2.

Here are the full results from the Last Gasp Time Trial:

Expert Men

  1. Mike McCann, 55:15

  2. Jesse Reams, 57:14

  3. Derrick Hynes, 58:02

  4. Bill Parry, 62:33

Expert Women

  1. Trina Irving, 71:29

Sport Men

  1. John Berryman, 59:47

  2. Tim Arnholtz, 63:53

  3. Bill Curtis, 67:56

Novice Women

  1. Tiffany Duncan, 70:14

  2. Shannon Meakins, 79:39

The final standings in the Points Series were as follows:

Expert Men

  1. Mike McCann, 69

  2. Jesse Reams, 52

  3. Jonah Clark, 49

  4. Ian Parker, 46

  5. Glen Iceton, 46

  6. Derrick Hynes, 42

  7. Jerome McIntyre, 30

  8. Marcus Waterreus, 23

  9. Stephen Waterreus, 20

  10. Scott Kerby, 20

  11. Troy Henry, 18

  12. Daniel Sessford, 15

  13. Bill Parry, 14

  14. Mac Hislop, 7

  15. Joel Macht, 7

  16. Brad Barton, 7

  17. Aaron Foos, 6

  18. Ryan Burlingham, 5

  19. Bill Slater, 5

  20. Greg McHale, 4

  21. Paul Christenson, 3

  22. Scott Fraser, 1

  23. Crispin Studer, 1

Expert Women

  1. Allison Furniss, 60

  2. Trina Irving, 57

  3. Duchane Richard, 45

  4. Katherine Sandyford, 27

  5. Nicole Ruest, 16

  6. Kylie Gatsby, 16

  7. Monica Melnychuk, 12

  8. Leona Etmanski, 10

Sport Men

  1. John Berryman, 102

  2. Darren Holcombe, 71

  3. Bob Bowerman, 54

  4. Sean McCarron, 47

  5. Dan Reimer, 31

  6. Bill Curtis, 30

  7. Judd Dueling, 27

  8. Graham Riske, 23

  9. Tim Arnholtz, 19

  10. Jonathon Kerr, 14

  11. Nathan Lenders, 11

  12. Rob Rees, 10

  13. Tom Ullyett, 9

  14. Randy Lamb, 7

  15. Patrick Anderson, 6

  16. Mark Connell, 5

  17. Liam Kiemele, 4

  18. Ken Kiemele, 4

  19. Kenji Tatsumi, 4

  20. Dave Weninger, 4

  21. Michael Mening, 3

  22. Bill Greer, 3

  23. Doug Jarrid, 3

  24. Marc Promovost, 2

  25. Bob Nishikawa, 2

  26. Chuck McKenzie, 2

  27. Ken Sylvestre, 2

  28. Gord Pudister, 2

  29. Keith Parkari, 2

  30. Rod Savoie, 1

  31. Grant Owen, 1

  32. Don White, 1

  33. Ed Hopkins, 1

  34. Walter Brennan, 1

Sport Women

  1. Kelsey Kabanak, 72

  2. Kaitlyn MacDonald, 39

  3. Corrine Tetreault, 27

  4. Joanne Weninger, 24

  5. Keltie Hollingdale, 22

  6. Leslie Vandermaas, 18

  7. Coralie Ullyett, 17

  8. Monica Gibson, 10

  9. Lara Lewis, 10

  10. Jen Funston, 7

  11. Nicki Denneault, 7

  12. Chrissy Murray, 5

  13. Ziggy Reimer, 5

Novice Men

  1. Ted Dean, 30

  2. Jody Woodland, 10

Novice Women

  1. Shannon Meekins, 44

  2. Tiffany Duncan, 20

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