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Category Archives: Race Reports
Casey Fields Criterium
B Grade A cracker of a day and a big field of 21 riders set the scene for a solid race. The usual miraculous conditions are present – the grass not a movin’ yet a solid wind a blowin’. This … Continue reading
Sth Pacific RR Champs Criterium
Day 3. One last race in the series – a fast and furious crit around a 1.33km circuit with a fair sou-wester blowing. Ivan Howes hasn’t returned after his asthma attack on Day 1 so we’re down to 11 starters. … Continue reading
Sth Pacific RR Champs ITT
Day 2 Afternoon: 15km Individual Time Trial. Out and back course – undulating, descent out, climb back, slight crosswinds throughout. What’s to say about a time trial? You don’t want to start and you just want it to end. In … Continue reading
Sth Pacific RR Champs 300m sprint
Day 2 Morning. 300 metre straight line sprint off a small ramp onto the tarmac then a slight rise all the way to the line. I took home the bronze in 2010 with a time of 28.27 when there was … Continue reading
Sth Pacific RR Champs Road Race
Well here we are again spending Easter in Maryborough. Day 1 is the 65km Road Race running anti-clockwise around a loop with a gusting Sou-wester making the hilly leg even more difficult than one might wish for. Every year I … Continue reading
Arfur’s Creek Road Race
Race Report B Grade Arthurs Creek 16 April 2011 What was he thinking? Well I asked him that very question on the start line when I noticed the colour of his headband – green like ours. His response was, … Continue reading
Dunlop Road Criterium
26 Feb 2011 B grade ‘Dunlop Road’ is a 1.4km criterium circuit around an industrial estate in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs. A solid bunch of 20 riders set off for what was to be a sixty minute hammerfest. One never knows … Continue reading
Steele’s Creek Scratch Race
B Grade A big bunch of 22 riders set off in near perfect conditions – the sou-easter breeze the only concern, well in terms of the weather at least. While we were contemplating that and generally having a chat in … Continue reading
Matinee Crit – Yarra Bend
Decided to spin the legs out in A Grade at the Yarra Bend crit circuit this morning. Healthy bunch of about 10 of us included some pretty handy riders. So much for warm up laps – try hammering from the … Continue reading