Up until now racing had been quite relaxed, if you can call 300kms a day relaxed. The course was flat and navigation had not been an issue, let’s face it, for most of the race so far there had only been one road to follow. The tempo of the race was increasing, through Port Augusta and Adelaide I had leapt a number of riders and...
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It is fair to say, by day 6 we had reached a new normal in our lives. Bodies and mindsets were adapting to life on the road. Day 6 – Mundrabilla to Nullarbor Roadhouse I got off to an early start, sneaking out the room so as not to disturb the others. In the process, I forgot my toothbrush which had lived in my jersey...
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I don’t usually write race reports for club races but this was an odd one. I hadn’t really prepared for it and wasn’t expecting much, I was pretty going there to say hello to the new club and to get some race time and fitness in. The M4 race was a 30 minute plus 2 lap crit. Race started as expected and we were doing...
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To start with, what a great weekend of racing that was. As usual a big thanks to the Canberra Cycling Club, Jason Parkes and all the volunteers for putting on another great tour. Even though this was the lowly D2 race, the grading was just right which made for good competitive racing. Saturday Stage 1 – was a nice 79km stage (which ended up...
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With the Tour of Canberra coming up next week here are a few stats which might be of interest. This data was taken from the online entry form which is publicly available material. Some of the age data was a little dodgy so I had to remove of the ages which didn’t make sense, like -14 etc. Men Avg Age NSW ACT VIC SA QLD...
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