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Weekend Racing results

Jazz — Mon, 21 May 2012 06:56:36 +0000

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

Jazz — Wed, 16 May 2012 03:01:07 +0000

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

Weekend Results

Jazz — Tue, 15 May 2012 05:19:20 +0000

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)

Aaron Last
Craig MacMillan
Ryan Allen
Andrew Kaye

B grade (40km, 64m 36s)

Than Dempster
Lisa Barry
Chris Little
Luke Hansen

C grade (31km, 62m 40s)

Jess Laws
Neil Quast
Jodie Uphil
Kirsty Deacon

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

Lisa's Battle on the Border

Jazz — Wed, 09 May 2012 01:25:59 +0000

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

Jazz — Mon, 07 May 2012 02:05:02 +0000

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.

Stephen Damm
Charly McMillan
Neil Vander Ploeg
Clancy Lloyd
Steve Kilpatrick
Aaron Last
Ryan Allen
Bob Bright
Paul Ingwersen
Marcus Gett
Terry Halpin
Craig McMillan
Brendan Washington
Luke Sperring
Adam Farrugia
Mick Coles

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

Wagga Junior

Jazz — Tue, 01 May 2012 00:29:31 +0000

Congratulations to AWCC Development Squad member Ryan Allen who took out U17 B grade of the Wagga Junior Tour. Fellow squad members Liam McAlister and Kirsty Deacon were also very competitive over the weekend.

Wagga Junior

Jazz — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:17:13 +0000

Congratulations to AWCC Development Squad member Ryan Allen who took out U17 division of the Wagga Junior Tour. Follow squad members Liam McAlister and Kirsty Deacon were also very competitive over the weekend.

Club Champs in Review

Jazz — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:11:36 +0000

Phew, what a day! Kelly Linden came down from Mt Beauty to power home in the bunch sprint to take her first AWCC club championship in C grade. In B grade, Bob Bright and Callum Dwyer’s late attack didn’t come off. Damien Christian taking win in another bunch sprint. While in the main race of the day – A grade – Brendan Washington broke away early and was later join by Paul Ingwersen. Both stay away with Ingwersen taking the win. Aaron Last won bunch kick for third place. Full results below. Thanks to everyone who came out to race. Thanks to Rob Belsher, Adam Farrugia, Anna Fogarty and Lyn Sheahan for marshalling. Next weekend is the world famous Dirt Berg. Starting at 2:30pm next Saturday at the Bethanga Pub. Don't miss it.

A grade Time 1:19:10

1. Paul Ingwersen 2. Brendan Washington 3. Aaron Last 4. Jamie Ruddy 5. Jacob Hanna 6. Rowan Christmas 7. Hugh Satchell Dave Schlig DNF Geoff Schlig. DNF

B Grade Time 1:26:02

1. Damien Christian 2. Mick Washington 3. Ken Payne 4. Terry Halpin 5. Bob Bright 6. Murray Wallace 7. Callum Dwyer 8. Charlie McMillan 9. Luke Hansen 10. Shane Way 11. Craig McMillan

C grade Time. 1:28.35

1. Kelly Linden 2. Roger Derrick 3. Peter Collier 4. Jess Laws 5. Chris Little

AWCC at Mersey Valley Tour

Jazz — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 23:23:42 +0000

Congratulations to AWCC member Lisa Barry (Torq/Bicycle Superstore) who enjoyed a very successful Mersey Valley Tour. She finish 3^rd in mountain top finish of Stage 2 which she describe as 'brutal' and was again in the mix in final stage making the elite select. But lost contact with 3 kilometres to the finish, but came in 6th place. Lisa believe she may have 5^th overall on the general classification, but results have yet to be confirmed to due technical issues. Check out the National Road Series website for fulls results when they become available. Lisa next race is ‘The Battle of Border’ tour up on the NSW Queensland border next month. Fellow AWCC member Rhys Pollock also race Mersey Valley Tour play the role of domestic for his Drapac Pro Cycling Team.

Border Cycling Premiership.

Jazz — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 23:22:32 +0000

Updated Border Cycling Premiership points table below. The big movers are after Saturday's race are Rob Belsher and Paul Ingwersen who move up to third and forth respectively.

22 Terry Halpin
19 Callum Dwyer
18 Rob Belcher
17 Paul Ingwersen
11 Craig McMillian, Liam McAlister, Neil Quast
10 Murray Wallace, Andrew Kaye
9 Damian Christian
8 Aaron Last, Clancy Lloyd
7 Brendan Washington, Justin King, Tim Allen
6 Roger Derrick, Stephen Damm
5 Jamie Ruddy, Jeff Drury
4 Ryan Allen, Wayne Cox, Tom Staats
3 Jason Dudenas, Tom Barry, Adam Furrugia, David Schlig
2 Craig McAlister, Zachary Drury, Geoff Schlig
1 Rohan Christmas, Charlie McMillan, Gavin McMillan, Sophia Drury