TT bike for Junior Tour

Thanks to John Vaughan for supplying me with a nice Time Trial bike to race in the Junior tour, weather it will help me, im not sure.

Anaconda Mtb Enduro

The warm(er) town of Alice Springs played host to the 2009 Anaconda Enduro. The event was great, a little bit of bad luck hampered my final result, but i was definatly not the only one. My best placing was on stage three with a 12th, this was the stage I enjoyed the most even though I was front derailiureless for the final 20km. I finished the event in 16th overall. All in all a good week in a "different" town. Yeah... I'd go back. Last weekend was a contrast to Alice, we were in cold cold Wagga for The Mc Donalds Classic Handicap and Crits, two solid days of training. Comming up are lots of club MTB races to get going before travelling to Canada for some World cups. Then in four weeks time its back amoungst the the skinny rubber and goanna oil for the Canberra Junior Tour.

Off to Alice! for Anaconda mtb Enduro

Flying to Alice springs tomorrow for the Anaconda MTB enduro, a seven stage 5 day race, after some healthy hospitality from the Goodspeeds! The event website will have intermediate race updates http://www.rapidascent.com.au/AnacondaMTBEnduro/Default.aspx?e=7 and cycling news will have daily stage updates http://cyclingnews.com/. If internet is available i will try to post some photos and results myself.

Canberra Tour

I entered the Canberra Tour as a preperation race for the Anaconda MTB enduro later this month. It turned out to be a great weekend of racing. Stage one featured a 97km course for C grade. On the firts KOM three of us got away and worked well together tp maintain the lead until we split on the final KOMand i was left on my own. Within 2-3 km of the finish i was caught by the bunch and hung on to get the bunch time. Sunday came and my legs were feeling the efforts of the previous stage. There was no chance i was going to be in any breaks today. The plan was to sit in the bunch and hopefully get some KOM time bonuses and make it safely to the finish, all went to plan and with a solo break up the road 200m nearing the finish myself and the race leader were the only ones interested in chasing him down and that we did, in the end i had nothing left for the sprint but was content to just finish with the group. I finshed in the top ten in GC and third in the KOM compition. Thanks to John and Leanne Henderson and Anna. The picture is of me and Ryohei Komori U/23 national Japanese champion, riding home after a long days racing.

I have a blog!

I have created this blog to keep friends and family informed of my Racing and training. I know its not as professional as a PERSONAL WEBSITE but its good enough for my purpose.