North Island Cycling Championships
The starter went and the Haumoana team was away. This was on
Thursday the 29th of August and the Haumoana team was racing against
year 7’s in a cycling challenge. There were 2 sorts of races an individual and
a team time trial. The team time trial was the first to start off. The girls
went first and then behind them the boys.
They were cycling on a motor racing track and had some tough
competition. Most of the Haumoana team was quite sick so they weren’t at their
best so they had an extra rider just in case, and they did need him. There were
seven teams in the race and the Haumoana team had five riders but Noah, which
was one of their team members, was too sick to race. So the Haumoana Team had
only 4 members to race with. The names of the Haumoana team riders were:
Wesley, Will, George and Reif.
The course was difficult but only had a bit of uphill, the
corners were vicious and they turned round like when you go around a
roundabout. The course only had one straight bit that was when everyone made
their move to pass. The total distance of the race was 13km long.
They went around the course 4 times and on the fourth
everyone sprinted their heart out for the finish. Haumoana came in 4th
and they only had 16 seconds and they would’ve had nicked 3rd place
on the podium.
Soon after all the year 7 team’s had finished the year 8
teams were on the track. Everyone had a great race. After the year 8 teams had
destroyed the track the mixed teams came through.
In the mixed teams were HNI with a few ex pupils in the team
from Haumoana School. They had a great race but ended up being too generous to
the fourth rider. They probably should’ve taken it all out and that would’ve
made space for them to be on the podium. But still they had a great cycle.
Next up was the year 7 boys individual race there were 44
cyclists in the race. Wesley, who was the only Haumoana pupil, had started off
having a great race zooming everywhere but on the 2nd lap he had a
dramatic crash Wesley was riding in the front pack and someone swerved out in
front of him and he went tumbling to the ground. His seat was out of place and
he had some bruises and scratches on him but he still got to his feet and
zoomed off trying to catch up to the front group. Wesley got quite close to the
front group but was just behind and couldn’t catch up to the lead group by
himself.
Wesley crossed the line in 15th position even when
he was hurt and fell off his bike at 30km per hour he still did really
well. The Haumoana team was still proud
of their results.
