Kieran Crean from Blarney CC has time trialled his way to victory on stage 2 of the O'Leary Stone Kanturk Three Day and also taken the yellow jersey (Photo: Jim McSweeney Photography)
By Brian Canty
Just as he did 12 months ago on the same stage, Blarney CC's Kieran Crean has won the time-trial in this morning's second leg of the O’Leary Stone Kanturk Three Day.
Crean set a cracking time of 10:44 for the eight kilometre test and he holds a five second lead over Eddie Dunbar (O'Leary's Stone Kanturk CC) after this morning’s test and yesterday’s bunch finish 90km opener.
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The man who won that stage, veteran Martin O’Loughlin was third this morning in a time of 10:59.
It all sets things up nicely for this afternoon’s third stage, which is a fast and flat trek starting and finishing in Banteer.
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A bunch sprint is the most likely outcome, given how flat the route is. But last year a group of a dozen or so did manage to clip away and take a handful of seconds on the speeding bunch behind.
Ryan O'Donovan (Cork County CC) was the man who won the stage.
However, with Blarney having a superior numerical advantage to anyone else in the race this time out and with their man Crean in the jersey, they will be very keen to avoid a reappear of last year when he just about lost the overall win on the final day.
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