Location: Cromarty, Highland
Event: 20-21 July 2013
Report: Snowdon Sports
Time trial specialist Silas Goldsworthy (Sandy Wallace Cycles) showed his road skills to build on a healthy advantage from the opening prologue and secure overall victory in Moray Firth CC’s two-day stage race.
The Edinburgh 27-year-old was fastest of the 73 riders on the 4.1-mile time trial from Jemimaville to Cromarty, beating second-placed Tom Arnstein (Team ASL360) by 13 seconds, and finished safely in the main field on both road stages to retain a seven-second aggregate winning margin over David Anderson (Granite City RT) with Arnstein a further three seconds back in third place.
Anderson outsprinted Euan Pope (Glasgow RC) to win the first 48-mile road stage with Arnstein leading in the rest seven seconds later after two laps of a circuit including the climbs of Mount Eagle and Mount High before the run back to the finish in Cromarty.
After time bonuses, it left Goldsworthy with a seven-second advantage over Anderson and the gap was the same after the three-lap, 50-mile final stage which was won by the promoting club’s Michael Henderson in a bunch sprint.
Results:
Prologue
1 Silas Goldsworthy (Sandy Wallace Cycles) 8-42
2 Tom Arnstein (Team ASL360) 8-55
3 Allan Mill (Sandy Wallace Cycles) 8-57
4 Finlay Young (BC Private Member) 8-58
5 Barry McGurk (Glasgow RC) 9-00
=6 Ross Laidlaw (Gala CC) 9-01
=6 Gavin Shirley (Dooleys-Cycles.co.uk) 9-01
Stage 1
1 David Anderson (Granite City RT) 2-01-41
2 Euan Pope same time
3 Tom Arnstein at 7 sec
4 Finlay Young
5 Fraser Martin (Perth United CC)
6 Gavin Shirley
7 Kevin Barclay (TheBicycleWorks.com)
8 Simon Van Bellen (Aberdeen Wheelers)
9 William Crawford (Granite City RT)
10 Kenneth Riddle (Moray Firth CC) all same time
Stage 2
1 Michael Henderson (Moray Firth CC) 1-59-43
2 Fraser Martin
3 Tom Arnstein
4 Brian Duncan (Granite City RT)
5 Ross Mallen (RAF CC)
6 Charles Fletcher (Cairngorm CC)
7 Finlay Young
8 Chris Pitlblado (Moray Firth CC)
9 Gavin Shirley
10 Douglas Taylor (Deeside Thistle CC) all same time
Overall
1 Silas Goldsworthy 4-10-13
2 Tom Arnstein at 7 sec
3 David Anderson same time
4 Finlay Young at 16 sec
5 Euan Pope at 18 sec
6 Barry McGurk same time
7 Gavin Shirley at 19 sec
8 Michael Henderson same time
9 Simon Van Bellen at 21 sec
10 Kevin Barclay at 23 sec
Points
1 Michael Henderson 20
2 David Anderson 18
3 Tom Arnstein 16
King of the Mountains
1 Euan Pope 18 pts
2 David Anderson 13
3 Michael Henderson 10
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