April 2010 - 100 Miler fund raiser success
Cyclists from the Altree Financial Bicycle Works team have raised  $6,053 after riding more than 1,000 miles to help an orphanage in Haiti supported by the Bermuda registered charity, Feed My Lamb Ministries.

Island's teenage cyclists star in Tennessee Classic
Royal Gazette - May 18, 2010
Four Bermuda teenagers had their first taste of overseas racing and delivered performances full of promise.

Dominique Mayho, Tre-shun Correia, Marquise Cann and Mark Godfrey travelled to McMinnville, Tennessee over the weekend to compete in the Highland Rim Cycling Classic, a two-day, three-race event for all ages and categories of racers.

Also participating was Bermudian Geri Mewett who lives in nearby Knoxville and has been providing coaching to the Bermuda Bicycle Association's (BBA) junior training squad for the last two years.

The teens were accompanied by veteran cyclist/triathlete Kent Richardson and BBA president Peter Dunne.

In the road race on Saturday, Godfrey and Cann challenged the Junior 15/16 category over 22.5 miles. Godfrey came second and Cann eighth.

Mayho and Correia raced 55 miles in the Junior 17/18, including a critical climb and 2.5 mile descent where speeds reached 50 miles per hour.

Mayho had been part of an early split in the group with two other very experienced riders. In the sprint finish he was third across the line and Correia fought hard after the ascent to hold off the chase to finish alone and claim third.

The race schedule then called for an afternoon time trial of 2.5 miles up the mountain.

With an average gradient of eight percent, this was to be a challenge the Bermuda boys had never faced in their relatively short cycling careers.

With the youngest competitors starting earliest, the race organisers were only able to start the juniors through the 15/16 age group before an apocalyptic storm rolled in, with lightning flashing and torrential rain which immediately caused culverts to overflow.

But Godfrey and Cann performed exceptionally well with the former taking first position and Cann consolidating his position with an eighth place finish.

All other categories were cancelled for the time trial.

Rain was again a factor in Sunday's criterium in downtown McMinnville but did not impede the schedule. With one start for the 15/16 and 17/18 juniors, the technical course was made even more challenging with constant rain.

As the race developed, Mayho was in the front group but missed a break by three others, leaving him in the chase group.

Cann had crashed in the early laps and was forced to spend the rest of the race chasing the pack.

Correia and Godfrey had been split from the chase group but Correia made a huge effort for almost half of the race to get the pair back to Mayho's group.

He slid out in the most technical part of the course leaving Godfrey to continue the chase on his own.

In one of the best solo efforts of the weekend, Godfrey reconnected with Mayho's group with just a handful of laps left in the 30 minute race.

Coming into the final section, several of the group slid out on the wet tarmac, giving Mayho a third place finish and Godfrey third in his category.

In Mewett's Pro, 1,2 category race, he and his team-mate took control of the race in the final two laps and finished with in the top two spots.

Dunne and Richardson said they impressed by the effort and results of the Bermuda squad on courses and against competition previously unseen.

Richardson said: "Wow, these guys have come along so far in the last few months and are showing great confidence in their skills and fitness. I'm very impressed."

Training continues for the squad as they continue to work towards the Junior Caribbean Cycling Championships in Aruba on August 7 and 8.

Godfrey grabs silver in Aruba
Royal Gazette Published: August 9. 2010

Mark Godfrey claimed a silver medal at the Junior Caribbean Cycling Championships in the juvenile (15-16) division in Aruba.
Godfrey, who was in the front pack for most of the race, was beaten to the line by Jeff Major of Bahamas with Jendelo Paula of Curacao coming in third

The silver medal won by Godfrey, 15, is the first time Bermuda has been on the podium in one of the boys categories in this competition.

The road race yesterday was in hot and dry conditions as the wind picked up through the morning.

The juvenile race of 60 kilometres saw an early attack from which the leading trio of Godfrey, Major and Paula broke off the front, steadily increasing their lead over the main field.

In the final sprint, Major took the win.

Godfrey's team-mate, Marquise Cann played the role of 'domestique' during the race, sitting in the chasing peloton of 14 riders in the event that the break did not succeed.

In the bunch sprint for the remaining places he was able to improve on his 19th place in the time trial to finish 12th overall.

Hayley Evans was part of the lead group in her junior girls (15-18) category until the final lap of her 40 kilometre race, finishing fifth ahead of two Arubans.

Race winner Nuhely Emerenciana was also the winner of the junior girls time trial.

This was the third and final year of junior national representation for Evans who heads to university in September.

Bermuda Bicycle Association (BBA) president, Peter Dunne, said the Championships would be a valuable experience for the local riders.

"For Team Bermuda this trip has been highly successful, both with the individual results and the continued exposure to a high caliber of competition," said Dunne.

"The riders have seen that to achieve podium results in this competition the commitment to training needs to be a very high level.

"They are already discussing what they need to do in preparation for next year.

"This is a good sign and, since all of the boys will still be eligible in 2011, they should continue to show even greater results.

"Our team has also strengthened friendships with riders they met last year, better linking them to the Caribbean cycling community.

"They have been great ambassadors for our country at all times and it is a pleasure to see them in this role."

The junior boys (17-18) road race was contested over eight laps of the 10 kilometre course with the lead group slowly being whittled down by the headwind and constant attacks by the strong teams of Curacao and Barbados.

On the second lap, Bermuda's Dominique Mayho crashed in the roundabout but quickly recovered and was able to rejoin the peloton.

With two laps to go and the lead group down to 12 riders, the Island's second rider in the category, Tre-shun Correia, began to cramp and lost contact with the group.

In the sprint finish, Mayho had a strong performance, finishing ahead of Barbados strong man Russell Elcock for fifth.

Hillard Cijntje of Curacao won the championship title followed by Jamol Eastmond of Barbados and Christopher Holder.

In the time trial on Saturday Evans finished fourth, Godfrey was eighth, Marquise Cann was 19th, Dominique Mayho fourth and Tre-shun Correia 86th.