The inner circuit of the National Park will again be venue for the 14th annual Laparkan Holdings (LPK) 11-stage Cycling Programme, which gets underway on Saturday, September 22.
This programme is set to get underway at 9:30 hrs, and will feature the normal card, which sees races from the BMX 6 – 9 to the 35-lap feature schoolboys and invitational race, which usually ends the proceedings.
Andrew Hicks won the 13th annual LPK programme in 2017 with a time of one hour, 18 minutes, 30 point 28 seconds. Other winners in 2017 were Nigel Duguid, Ozia McAulay, Jonathan Ramsuchit, John Niles, Marvin Knight and Gerard Barrington.
This 14th annual LPK Cycling programme is the first of two of the Guyana Cycling Federation’s sanctioned events on the calendar for this weekend.
On the following day, Sunday, September 23, the 16th edition of the Victor Macedo Memorial Road Race will be staged. This race begins at 224 Peter Rose Street, Queenstown; from where the cyclists will make their way on to Mandela Avenue and proceed to the Linden/Soesdyke Highway on the East Bank of Demerara, before returning to the National Sports Commission on Homestretch Avenue for the finish of the race.
Veterans Over-45 and Mountain Bikers will turn around at Yarrowkabra, while the others will go to the Long Creek School Junction for the U-turn.
Set to pedal off at 7:30hrs, the race will see competition in the Open, Juniors, Mountain Bikes, Veterans under-45 and Veterans over-45 categories.
Prizes are up for grabs in both races.
