FREEPORT, Grand Bahama -- Legs are still hurting and the streets are still blazing after record numbers turned out for the Grand Bahama Cyclists Club’s series opening event last weekend.  On Saturday March 31st, the G.B.C.C. hit the streets for the first race in its G.B.C.C. Points Series. The series which runs from March to November consists of ten events and will feature at least one race per month. During the series cyclists are asked to compete for points instead of trophies. At the end of the series, the cyclists with the most accumulated points in each category are then awarded with the Points Leader’s Jersey among other gifts. And as mentioned, Saturday’s event was the most well attended season opening event ever held by the club as a total of 12 competitors, men and women, turned up to participate in Race 1 of the series.

The event also produced another milestone, as it was the first event to feature members of the club’s newly formed Junior Cycling Club. Though the juniors did not show up in the numbers expected, the fact that the club can now host a junior division without dependence on Nassau to participate shows promise and growth. The event’s junior event winner, Olufemi Williams completed the 3 mile course in 19:35:23 giving him the lead in the Junior Segment of the series. The 13 year old student of Lucaya International School was able to complete the course in record time despite attaining an injury in a crash that occurred in the early stages of the race. Getting up and dusting himself off, young Mr. Williams pressed on into what was believed to be a headwind only to turn around and find himself encountering an even stronger headwind on the trip back to the finish. However, on he pushed and his reward after his wind hammered battle was the first victory of the series earning him 90 points.

The group of cyclists stayed together for a few more miles before a small separation was created by Romeo Seymour who started to put in a huge turn at the front. He was joined by Rowshan Jones, Ken Thompson and Lebert Gibbs and the four men once again created distance between themselves and the rest of the group. The groups came together and split up a few more times before a series of small attacks by Rowshan Jones along with the strong headwinds one and a half miles before the end of the first lap broke the group completely asunder allowing Jones and Gibbs to involve themselves in a two man break away that would last for the remainder of the race.

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