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Published May 2009
On
a sunny saturday May 2, 2009 it was time for the annual individual
38 kilometer long timetrial on the Afsluitdijk, the second race
in the Dutch National Kickbike Cup 2009. All participants came together
at he start in Den Oe ver
with one thing on their minds: How fast can I get to the finish
in Harlingen?.
The wind direction was a bit changing during the race. At the start
there was a backwind, in the middle of the race he was changing
to a sidewind, but the last 10 kilometers the wind was changing
again and became a headwind. Very tough on the last part ! In the
Women Senior-competition it was Hermien Koers (Selles-Kamperzeedijk)
who set the fastest time. With an averege speed of 26,6 km/hour
she beated Rosanne Reijne (High Level vd Laan) and Wenda Zuiddam
(Team Rotterdam).
In the Men Veteran-category good old Mario Reijne (High
Level vd Laan)
won with an
averege speed of 26,5 km/hour. Number 2 was Martin Bonder (Green
White Feet) and Paul Wigbers (Team Twente) completed the victoryplatform.
In the Men Senior-category it was a very strong René Elzinga (Steppendoejezo.nl)
who
drove the distance with an average speed of 29,3 km/hour and so
took his first victory of this season. He beated Erik de Groot (Green
White Feet) and
Lars Kessler (Mars Germany) with more than 4 minutes and he was
less than 8 minutes slower than the fastest time in this decade
(Martijn Dashorst in 2001) that was driven with a South-west backwind
with force 4. A very good result from René.
After the race everybody enjoyed himself with a cool drink in the
sun. In the overall-classification after two events in the womenscompetition
it is very close with three leaders, namely Hermien Koers, Rosanne
Reijne and Wenda Zuiddam. In the men's competition René Elzinga
took over the lead from Hans Korbee, who now is sharing the second
place with Erik de Goot. Martin Bonder is leading the Veteran-men
for Mario Reijne and Paul Wigbers. Next event in the National Kickbike-cup
will be the Doesburg
footbike-marathon on saturday May 16. This is a new race and gives
the Dutch footbikers the possibility to get used to this distance
for the marathon-events in Italy and the EC in the Czech Republic.
Hans Korbee
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