Weekend Racing results

It was a perfect Autumn Saturday afternoon for the club road race. Despite two other major events on a good number of riders turned out to enjoy the good weather. The race was a graded handicap with A off scratch, B off Block and C grade was limit. With no wind to contend with C grade worked well and at the turn around they had only given up a couple of minutes of their advantage. Mean while B grade were pushing hard and looked like they would hold A grade off but with 3km to go A grade got on to B and started pushing even harder to bridge the gap to the front markers. Even though the large bunch was pushing hard the effort from the C grade bunch proved they had done enough in the early stages to stay away and take line honors.

 

The results were:

 

1st      Jess Laws

2nd     Kirsty Deacon

3rd      Mike Coles

4th      Marcus Gett

 

Fastest Time

Brendan Washington (46min)

 

Upcoming club races:

Sat 26th May 52km handicap

Sat 2nd June club combine with the triathlon club 18km individual time trial.

Updated Handicaps

The updated handicaps for club racing are available on the Racing page, and as always also available by clicking here.

Weekend Results

Last weekend saw a good turn out of riders compete in the graded scratch race. The day was sunny but there was a very cold wind which was making work on the front tough on the way out. A and B grade rode the Diesel plant course (40km) and C grade rode the out and back Plunketts course.

 

A grade set a good pace with a few attacks along the way that stretched a few of the riders, but none of the attacks were able to stay away which resulted in a bunch sprint with Aaron Last taking out first, Craig McMillan 2^nd and Ryan Allen 3^rd.

B grade also saw a lot of attacks and at the turnaround the bunch was still together where young Than Dempster from Cobram attacked and Lisa Barry went with him. From this point they never looked back and were able to hold off a fast chasing bunch for Than to take 1^st place and Lisa 2^nd, with Chris Little winning the bunch sprint for 3^rd.

C grade worked well together which didn’t allow anyone to get away and thus it came down to a bunch sprint as well with Jess Laws proving to strong for 1^st, Neil Quast 2^nd, and Jodie Uphill 3^rd.

 

Placings to 4th

A grade (40km, 60m 22s)

1. Aaron Last
2. Craig MacMillan
3. Ryan Allen
4. Andrew Kaye

 

B grade (40km, 64m 36s)

1. Than Dempster
2. Lisa Barry
3. Chris Little
4. Luke Hansen

 

C grade (31km, 62m 40s)

1. Jess Laws
2. Neil Quast
3. Jodie Uphil
4. Kirsty Deacon

 

This weekends club race is another graded scratch race. 2:30pm from Stead Street Wodonga.

Lisa's Battle on the Border

After her top ten finish in the Mersey Valley Tour last month, AWCC member Lisa Barry took on the next race in the National Road Series, Battle on the Border. Here's what happened in her own words:

Hi All,  

I have been receiving quite a few notes of support and wishes for good luck from AWCC in my endeavours with the Torq/Bicycle Superstore Women’s Road team.  I thought I would update you all just in case you were interested.  

The family and I travelled up to the gold Coast on the weekend just gone and I completed the 4 stage tour Battle on the Border – the second tour in the women’s National Road Series.  It consisted of a ITT and road race on Saturday, a road race on Sunday and a crit Monday.  

Finished in 23rd overall – can’t tell you how happy I am considering it was not my ideal tour (not enough hills!). I guess the most exciting thing (and probably my biggest achievement so far in cycling) was coming second in the Queen of the Mountain competition to legend Ruth Corsett*. I got to wear the polka dot jersey on the 3rd and fourth stages as I was equal first but she got me in the second last stage with a really smart attack at the top of the hill. I learnt a lot and I'm already looking forward to heading to the third race of the series in Tamworth in June.  

See you all at a club race soon I hope – need to learn a lot about cornering, TT’s, crits and racing smarts!   Lisa  

*Ruth Corsett was 2010 national road champion.

Dirt Berg 2012

The 2012 Albury Wodonga Dirt Berg race proved to be one for the junior riders with Stephen Damm soloing to a convincing win after riding away from his fellow limit riders on the final steep climbs to the finish to finish in a time of 45:03 minutes.

Fellow junior, Charlie McMillan rode well to to take second and hold off a determined Neil Vander Ploeg who had one by one  dropped the remains of the scratch bunch and in the process take out the fastest time. Despite a strong ride,  he was not quite able to make up the 7:30 minute head start given to limit on the demanding 21.5 km course.

Clancy Lloyd, another under 17, also riding off limit, reached the summit in a strong 4th place.

For those who made the trip it was a short but tough day that hurt the legs and provided a definite sense of satisfaction to the finishers.

1. Stephen Damm
2. Charly McMillan
3. Neil Vander Ploeg
4. Clancy Lloyd
5. Steve Kilpatrick
6. Aaron Last
7. Ryan Allen
8. Bob Bright
9. Paul Ingwersen
10. Marcus Gett
11. Terry Halpin
12. Craig McMillan
13. Brendan Washington
14. Luke Sperring
15. Adam Farrugia
16. Mick Coles

DNF. Jason Dudenas
DNF. Brian Harris
DNF  Dave Mann
DNF. Liam Mcallister