Aug 5, 2018

Weekend review - Aug 4/5

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Edited: Aug 5, 2018

What a great weekend. The weather was great, there were good turnouts out club rides, lots of participation in racing around Sydney and we had the first race in our inaugural club championships.

We had a good turnout for our Prospect-Roubaix ride. We are in the middle of winter and yet we are regularly getting 6 or more turn up for the ride. If only we could improve Doorny's selfie skills. 😀

A big group headed out for the Bobbo loop.

A number of club members raced at the LACC Tour Of August Stage 1 crit at Dunc Gray and Jerel David grabbed 2nd in B grade and evergreeen Stevie P took out D grade with a breakaway win. Well done to those guys. I hear Steve wasn't content with his effort in the morning and headed out to Heffron in the afternoon for the RBCC crit. Let the youngsters have a turn Steve. 😀

Panther and John Muirhead headed up the M1 for HDCC HEZ 100 and Panther nabbed himself a podium in D grade. Well done Panther.

On Sunday morning, we had 29 people racing in the Individual Time Trial at Calga. It was graded with Mens A, B, C and D grades and a Women's grade. A Fox handicap was applied to each of the times to equalise all riders before the podiums were announced.

Congratulations to go to the following people.

Mens A grade:

1. James Everett

2. Nash Kent

3. Will Fraser

Mens B grade

1. Matt Hazard

2. Connor Whyntie

3. Cesar Biguetti

Mens C grade

1. Jonathan Lam

2. Pat Coleman

3. Russell Fox

Mens D grade

1. Peter Homsek

2. Andy Hinks

3. Damian Ramano

Womens

1. Rachel Nicholls

2. Natalie Silvestro

3. Renee Everett

Fastest time:

Male: James Everett

Female: Renee Everett

I thank LJ Hooker and Dynamic Office National for sponsoring today's race. It is only with their support that we can run these races and the overall championships. Thanks to Cesar and Celina Biguetti for additionally donating a limited edition of a fine wine to each of the winners and also a adjustable standup desk as a lucky door prize. Congratulations to Damian Ramano on winner that desk.

Full results are available at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DToDn0Qi2W2xS4IS6lwibfIVntq5WOXGCPI3mmG_iY0/edit#gid=1566831081

Also a big thanks to Kman who volunteered his time to help out on the day and tke a huge number of photos. I will collect these into a Facebook album over the next couple of days and post them for everyone to check out.

Pat "The General"Coleman

Aug 5, 2018

Awesome Club with great people. Thanks Foxy for setting up and managing the ITT. Your efforts made the day such a success.

Kieran Woo

Aug 5, 2018

Amazing results. Another INCREDIBLE weekend of racing and participation by many of our members who raced or just simply got out there this weekend. Calga was Awesome. The best cycling club EVER.

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