Last Friday the NZ Masters squad made their present felt by scoring first and second place in the 4.2km prologue in the city of Punaauia. With Lester Settle taking the leaders jersey by 1.2 seconds from his team mate Kerry Harford and finishing sixth and eight on overall GC.
On Saturday the first stage was a 110km out and back road race from Punaauia along Papeete’s west coast. A three rider break away managed to gap the peleton by 1.20 minutes, with all the masters finishing with the bunch. No big movements on top of the GC leader-board with Kerry sitting pretty 1.2seconds behind Lester Settle and 15 seconds ahead of no.3.
