Overall I would rate 2016 as a pretty good year for my cycling. Once again achieving my annual goal 15,000kms, which included one 300km ride to Toowoomba and three 200k rides to various parts of Brisbane. The Toowoomba ride was particularly satisfying as it was my first 300k ride in three years and it was good to know I could still do it. It was...
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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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Due to some over developed love of Excel I’ve put together some stats for the cycling component for the upcoming World Masters Games in Sydney this October. I pulled these numbers from the world masters site from a PDF as such I make no claim that these numbers are completely accurate. Firstly the big numbers. The overall number of competitors and the country they come...
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Firstly let me say a big thank you to the organisers and volunteers of the tour of Canberra, they did an excellent job and all grades were well looked after. Well from my view in D2 all I can say is I am so over the three sisters climb,3 times in 2 days is enough for me. Having to haul my 90kg body up those...
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Here is a summary of Scratch race conducted by the ACT Vets on the 08/03/09 Distance: 40:05km for all grades Temp °C: 15.2 App Temp °C: 14.6 Rel Hum %: 80 Wind Dir: ESE Wind Speed: 6km/hr Wind Gust: 7 km/hr Avg Speed (B Grade): 35.1km/hr Perfect conditions for racing and what appeared to be a good turn out for a club race. So much...
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