report by Leigh Outschoorn

Summer Criterium series race #2, Tech Park, C grade ladies race report – 22^nd December 2013….

Well, we had ourselves a real race!! We had solid competition, attacks, tactics and the best of all a sprint finish! We claimed the majority of the podium for today’s efforts, with Laurensia finishing 2^nd and Sarah Smith 3^rd.  Well done ladies!

In attendance for today’s race was 7 SPR chicks, namely; Laurensia, Sarah, Judy, Anke, Anna, Megan and myself. Although, Megan was not in her SPR jersey – pursed lips J, she attacked 3 times (someone ate her weetbix!). Anke attacked 2 times, and spent some serious time up front. Sarah was up front for pretty much the whole race and still had some in the tank for a sprint at the end. Laurensia was fearless and held her place amongst the front contenders and positioned herself well for the sprint finish. Judy hung on and was really pushing out the watts, but found herself spending some hard core alone time, lapped with only 2mins to go. Great effort Judy! Anna was our ‘confidence booster’, she took some headwind for the team and guided us through each lap, Thanks Anna! I was really happy you were there with us today. Thanks to the Hall girls for making it a very pleasant race indeed. As I expected, we were all very polite and of course we all cornered like pro’s! Anna, you might need to check out your carbon brakes, they really interrupted the serenity! 🙂 Meghan, thanks for helping us out for registration. Peter, thanks for just doing what you do…you were even seen trying to unblock the loos with a big stick today, honestly, you are just all things to everyone!

I had a lovely race, the pace was good and I was still able to talk which was nice! I hope that it was a good experience for those brave first timers. I am so proud of you for giving it such a red hot go!! You guys were nothing short of awesome! Thanks for a great race today 🙂