what’s going on??? nothing, just keep riding. but avoid utes stopped in the middle of the road.
spr kit order –as you may have seen, the kit order is up and running. ordering can be found here. instructions as to what you are eligible for are here. ordering is easier this year as you use your credit card to pay through paypal as you do the order. as there have been a few people away, we will extend the orders till after aussie day. orders will close at the end of the 26th with a view to send the orders to cannibal on the thursday. you have had lots of time, so don’t attempt to piss me off and leave it to the last minute. we are currently up to over $20,000 worth of orders so this will be the biggest order we have ever done. for those that are yet to order, the discount applies to any garment that you have ordered previously. this means that for some people a great opportunity for a new skinsuit or trisuit exists at a great price.
ride routes – a couple of new routes for saturday, so make sure you check the map carefully. the fast/main ride has a couple of turns that happen halfway along a road, so you must be aware of where you need to turn. those with garmins, i would suggest you program this one in. i haven’t actually ridden or driven this route before so i am going on a bit of blind faith after a guy at work told me about it. hope it is ok. it basically runs parallel with hale road, but he claims that it is much quieter and more undulating. the trans group will also get a new route and will get to do shelley and bannister together. wednesday is national glass breaking day and as such, a public holiday ride will be running. there will be an earlybirdride on both saturday and wednesday leaving at 5:30 from the narrows. the main ride on aussieday, however, will contain a few changes. firstly with the road closures, we will start the ride at the corner of angelo and coode sts (i.e. just up the hill from the usual spot). also, there is a triathlon happening on the day at point walter so both the earlybird ride andthe main ride will bothuse stonehamroad as a diversion. this runs parallel with burke drive, but will take a few turns to get onto it. have a look at google maps to see where the likely diversions will be, i haven’t mapped it.
saturday 22nd january
ride starts under the narrows (cityside) at 5:30am
early lap – spr earlybird ride
all rides start at coode st carpark at 7:00am
development group – spr saturday 35.48km (novice shelley)
transitional 1 & 2 – spr saturday 39.81km (shelley & bannister)
fast, main 1 & 2 – spr saturday 49.69km (holmes rd)
sunday 23rd january
all rides start at coode st carpark at 7:00am
short – spr sunday 67.96km (greenmount & zig-zig)
long – spr sunday 95.04km (greenmount & parkerville & mundaring weir)
wednesday 26th january
ride starts under the narrows (cityside) at 5:30am
early lap – spr earlybird ride
ride starts at angelo st carpark at 7:00am
Holmes Road….I’ve just checked out the elevation on mapmyride. Hmmmm, I’m not sure that 1 (big) hill counts as ‘undulating’.
Looks like I’ll be doing the Ride of Shame from the fast group back to Main1 then! 🙂
No public holiday ride for me, I will be busy saluting the Australian flag at my citizenship ceremony, yiipppppeeeee
I have ridden on Holmes rd a couple of times and I recall its large blue chip surface, very little traffic and from the cyclist pov undulating esp at the northern end
I usually ride Holmes the other way, but there are a couple of pinches with fast dip in the middle along its route. The first is the lesser of the two, and the second one is probably similar to Ridge Hill Rd the way we normally go on Saturdays (anti-clockwise facing North). As Russell said, the surface is officially “heavy”. Plenty of chances to regroup at the lights along Kalamunda Rd.
Great course, and good ride with Fast one this morning. We varied our route slightly, turning left at Anderson rather than Wandoo, but I don’t think this detracted at all.. must do it again sometime
+ 1 on great course. i found the undulations challenging and suffered…which is a good thing right?
had to smile when the fast group turned around and saw we caught them at some lights…i bet that lit a match. to be fair we had some fast group ring-ins to help 🙂
i saw Mark S mentioned a possibility of a Transition group ride on the PHR.
i would definitely be interested in a trans group as would probably really struggle with the main group