Saturday Morning and with the sun shining and the wind on their backs the riders set out on the 90km first stage in Lisnaskea of the Lakeland Cycling Club Two Day Stage. 
Looping around the south of the county the peleton raced to the first king of the hills with local rider Conor Sprice taking maximum points ahead of Aaron McQauid from Emyvale. 
The race was still largely together but would finally break up on the second king of the hills climb up Carnmore. Andrew Chivers of North Down took the maximum points and with it the Climbers classification on day one. 
The lead group swelled as the riders made the descent from Carn rock and the rolling nature of the road to Brookborough meant it looked like a bunch sprint was inevitable but Eddie Brennan of Dublin Wheelers had other ideas making a break and gaining over 20 seconds on the bunch. 
Only one man was able to respond with Comeragh’s Tadgh DeBarra bridging across and then despatching Brennan and growing a healthy lead on the chasing bunch and although they worked hard to reduce this, DeBarra took the line 23 seconds ahead of Brennan and 36 seconds from the bunch. And took the Yellow jersey going into the second stage time trial.
It was felt that surely a 4km flat time trial would not do much to change the overall classification. 
But this proved not to be the case the general Classification was in for a major shake up. Mark Glendinning of Spires CC set the fastest time of 5 minutes 55 seconds with William McCormack of St. Tiernan’s the only other rider to dip under six minutes in second place and Alan Campbell of North West CC in third. 
The local knowledge played to the advantage of the local riders with Lakeland placing all five members of their team in the top 11, Raymond Kerr best placed with a fifth place finish. 
The main point though was the yellow jersey lost 49 seconds to the stage winner and with it the yellow which moved onto the shoulders of Glendinning for the final stage but with McCormack only twp seconds behind in second and Dublin Wheelers Eddie Brennan and Team sport actives Christopher Birney only another seven seconds behind, he would not be able to relax.
Sunday afternoon and the race rolled out from the Share centre in Lisnaskea bathed in sunlight. The riders were to tackle another 90km stage to settle things. 
An early break seen local rider Raymond Dunlop and West Tyone’s Barry McKenna gain 1 minute 40 on the main field and seen Raymond in virtual Yellow on the road. 
The two riders up the road were finally caught before Glangevlin as the race approached the first King of the Hills of the day and where the climbers made their moves for the points on offer,. 
Jonnie Boyle of TC racing who was active in the climbers’ competitiion the previous day took maximum points at the top but current polka dot jersey rider Andrew Chivers took the four points for second and maintained his lead in the competition with local man Comac McLaughlin of Lakeland CC taking third ahead of Alan Nevin riding for TC Racing in fourth. 
After a fast descent and the race approaching Swanlinbar, Cormac McLaughlin made his bid for glory and led solo ahead of what remained of the bunch through Kinawley pushing his lead out to 25 seconds by the start of the final Climb. 
The chase started to hunt him down and a problem with his pedal cleat further hampered the rider who was caught with 3km to go. 
From here the race further split as the gradient increased. Andrew Chivers again displayed his climbing abilities taking the stage win ahead of sportactives Christopher Birney with day one’s winner Tadgh deBarra taking third. 
Chivers retained the Polka Dot jersey by eight points from TC racings Jonnie Boyle with Christopher Birney leap frogging Lakeland’s Conor Sprice to take thirrd. Andrew Chivers also took the General Classifications Yellow Jersey by three seconds from Sportactives Birney with Tadgh DeBarra taking thirrd place a further eight seconds back. Promoting Club Lakeland CC took the Team prize ahead of TC racing in second and East Tyone in third. 
And first Lakeland Rider was Cormac McLaughlin who finished in ninth on General Classification.