Tent hill was a magnificent venue for a race,wide safe slightly bumpy roads little hills for you better riders multipleVentoux for us hubbards ,great country setting and most importantly free post race beer and glamorous podium sheep.
Mcguff and Plenty set off for a casual sunday arvo gentlemans ride in Masters B and Mcguff fulfilled his obligations whereas Plenty is still under the misapprehension that cycling requires pain to be given and recieved(weird)and smashed it all the way till the finish where his love of his fellow cyclist prevented him elbowing them out of the way for what would have been a well deserved Podium he needed some mates (familiar story}.
Love is all you need
Julia (aka Martin)
Tenthill RR report - Masters B
A Pleasant Day in the country
The quality of the day was set by the quality of the music conversation and people watching as we were trapped in traffic for an hour at wacol, special thanks to Plenty for his ecclectic and interesting music commentary and thanks to Andrew Martin for providing the ecologically responsible transport.....,2 geeks and a Julia travelling together to a bike race watch out for the docco.
Days highlights were the crazy canuck and justin doing the Cycological squad proud its always motivating seeing one of your clubmates ride himself to a dehydrated induced delirium and the other putting the peleton in the hurt box for a 100ks well done guys...... club handicapper note canuck and justin are ex Bgraders.
Masters C about 40 starters the majority of the riders had carers and or medical staff present two in fact were riding with catheters still attached and numerous others were riding speedwell single speeds and wearing Blundstones .........so after a gentle trundle for two laps with 300m to go Julia the youngest rider by 37 years and the only one in Lycra decides to smash out a soul destroying 42kph sprint only to get pipped at the post by of all things the Postman on his way home from doing his rounds and speaking on his phone. I am sure posties qualify as Pro Riders .
Honourable mention for Andrew who admirably kept the enemy at bay and finished looking overly relaxed for a masters Gentleman rider.
All crap aside it is a particularly pleasant race and I for one will definately be going back next year. Fabulous course for team racing as the Elite squads demonstrated
Guitar Gym - Orbea in Canberra
Anzac25
Uni was well represented across the grades at Hamilton's Anzac25 Open Kermese on Sunday. Results here. Some notable mentions were: Duncan Lambie 1st Masters B, in a trademark hardman performance he instigated a breakaway soon after the halfway mark then led out the sprint from 400m! Steve Miles 4th Elite C, rode a strong race to back up from winning the Prime. Mark Frendo 7th Elite A, bridged 300m across to the break on the final lap. There were a number of Uni riders in Elite A, Elite B and Masters A who narrowly missed the final results sheet, John Freiberg (Guitar Gym-Orbea) 12th in Elite A and Tom Brouard 6th in Elite B. Congratulations to all who raced. Check out the Flickr site for more photos. Mascott has kindly written a race report from Masters A: Mascott rolled out with Truck, Paolo, Spartacus, Fuller, Rowdy.
With three Pursuiters and 3 TT guys, (Rowdy could be either) we figured on Mascott and Truck just constantly attacking to attempt to soften the bunch so out TT guys could launch an attack somewhere around the 45 min mark.
The field had 54 riders. Mainline Plumbing and Fly V were the biggest groups with 8-10 riders each. Both teams kept reeling the attacks in.
Truck and Mascott worked well together doing as planned. Other riders had helped with some attacks too.
With around 20 mins to go Spartacus launched an attack and ended up with a rider from Fly V, Yellow Jersey and Mainline. Unfortunately for Spart, he got dropped from this group which would proove to be the winning break.
Once Spart came back to the bunch, both Mascott and Truck made several attempts to bridge the gap, but we were constatly shut down by the larger teams and they just backed off the momentum. One bridge got to within only 30-40m and then went back out to 150 m very soon.
Frustrating.
Mascott Liège–Bastogne–Liège WC 5
Despite a mild chill in the air, signalling the end of the Uni 'Classics Season', a large number of club members rolled out to Nundah for the latest installment of the World Cup. Congratulations to all who braved the glorious sunshine to race! A Grade: 1. kHz B Grade: 1. Juso Ladies: 1. Stef Paris Roubaix - WC 4
There was once again a good turnout to WC 4 - Paris-Roubaix on Saturday A Grade Ladies Stef Nicole Georgie
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