Marcus Christie on his way to an excellent 25 Mile TT time, and just head of the National TT Championships (Photo: Alicja Cernak)
Marcus Christie clocks scorching 25 TT time
Having set many of the fastest times on Irish roads in recent years, Marcus Christie has just done a blistering 25 TT time.
And he has recorded the sub-49 minute marker just days out from the National TT Championships.
Christie (Performance SBR) has clearly been working hard away from the limelight as he rocketed to a time of 48:31 yesterday.
The Irish elite and U23 international set the time at the Father’s Day 25 Mile TT on the Woodgreen A26 course, promoted by Ballymoney CC, near Ballymena.
Nobody else in the field in Co Antrim broke the 50 minute marker.
Christie’s nearest challenger Paddy McKenna of Emyvale CC put in another great ride against the clock with a time of 51.41.
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Yesterday's time was not Christie's fastest ever for a 25, having gone sub 47 once.
But it is one of his fastest over the distance and coming as it does out of the blue, he will be one to watch Thursday.
In 2014 he raced a full season with An Post Chain Reaction. He managed a career-best result when he finished sixth in the opening stage and wore the white jersey in the L’Etoile Des Besseges (2.1).
Later in the year he was 13th in the TT at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
A year earlier, 2013, he was part of the two-man Irish team for the World U23 time-trial championships in Florence where he finished an excellent 28th out of 74 starters.
In late 2015 he departed the sport to return to rowing. However, within months he was back in the peloton.
In July of last year he smashed his Irish 50 mile TT record at Woodgreen. He clocked 1hr 35mins 32secs to shave almost five minutes off the 1:40:11 he set three years ago.
And last August he set the fastest ever 10-mile time-trial on the island of Ireland, breaking a record set by David McCann exactly 10 years ago to the day.
On August 17th 2006 McCann clocked 18.21 but Christie, on the Woodgreen course, beat that by five seconds by stopping the clock in 18.16.
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