We had a great Bike race today! A big thank you to all who participated and volunteered to help keep the race safe.The fan support was excellent - hearing those cheers made a big difference !
I am proud to report we brought home some serious metal in the biking event.
2 Gold
2 Silver
2 Bronze
Fair Oaks medal winners are: Women's 51& Over
BRONZE: Beth Pendergast
Men's 51 & Over (a complete medal sweep)
GOLD: Francois Dunoyer
SILVER: Chris Allen
BRONZE: Gary Rasicot
Men's 50 & Under
GOLD: Scott Wheeler
SILVER: Craig Condon
Biking is actually a team sport so ALL the riders helped the team produce the metals for the FOCA team. The roster included Beth Pendergast, Louise & Chris Allen, Jon Pilon, Gary Rasicot, Francois Dunoyer, Jamey Koutras, Alix Bray, Scott Wheeler, Caitlin Burman, and myself.
Please congratulate with team and winners when you see them.The run race was also a success, I will let Steve Murphy comment on the run team and results separately.
Good luck to all in the remaining events this week. Thanks, Bike Coach Condon
P.S. At right, actual race photo of Francois finishing for the Gold
5K
A huge THANK YOU to our runners who came out this morning. The conditions were the toughest I've experience & the competition was strong with almost 60 runners participating among all communities!
As we continue to witness over the weekend, our neighbors who came out to cheer everyone on to support for our athletes has been awesome & really makes a difference in these Games, keep up the great Fair Oaks Spirit!
This event also required the help from several volunteers to assist us with the race turns, traffic control, registration & the finish line duties, thank you for all of your help as it played a big part in having a smooth safe event.
Please Congratulate our runners who competed the 5k:
Mark Holmes
Trey Johnston
Marissa Nanney
Kristi McNeilly
Shelley Williams
Heike Pilon
Debbie Burman
Nikki Laughlin
The results for the race are below:
RUN RACE:
Women's 51& Over
Molly O'Brian (CA/NCA)
Debby Burman (Fair Oaks)
Molly Winkler (CA / NCA)
Women's 50 & Under
Natalie Stains (Oakleigh Forest)
Tiffany Wedlake (CA / NCA)
Erica Mules (Whitehurst)
Men's 51 & Over
Fran Girona (Whitehurst)
Dave Forsyth (CA / NCA)
Jim Buchman (Whitehurst)
Men's 50 & Under
Jared Law (Oakleigh Forest)
Keith Baker (Whitehurst))
Alixis Lecouras (Oakleigh Forest)
A big CONGRATULATIONS to Debby Burman who came out & took the Silver Medal in the Women's over 51 competition. Debby is a strong competitor at age 64 & was the oldest runner to compete!