so we are 5 stages down in the vuelta and it has given us a bit of everything. a team time trial to start with followed by 3 mountain finishes and a sprint stage. a victory for “bling” matthews has been a good start for greenedge, even if the big name sprinters thought this tour would be too hard. the spr sweepstakes are also underway with team astana taking an early lead but with radioshack and katusha nipping on their heels. it is actually interesting to see how the prize money for the vuelta is paid out at the various points along the course. a couple of the teams are still on 20-30c but it is early days yet. you can check out the sweepstakes here. it is also father’s day this sunday. when your kids ask what you want for father’s day, say that you would like a long spr hills ride.
ride leaders – bit light on for ride leaders this week. put your name down here.
kit order closes – the next kit order closes soon. more info on the previous post.
livelighter dardanup tour – next weekend our sister club down south will be running the dardanup tour. this race consists of a short road race followed by a team time trial. the previous post has asked people to indicate if they want to race. as we will need to work out the teams, people need to put their names down by this saturday. if you now cannot go, or have changed your mind, you also need to let us know as we may need to change the teams to suit. more info here.
ride routes – in special honour of the dome boys heading over the indo to race up a mountain, we are doing ewan st this saturday. weather should be…the same as it has been all week. it couldn’t be much worse than the thursday fast group today. i am sure that my eyeballs have been thoroughly cleaned from all the sand and grit coming off the tyres in front. people often ask how the ride routes are decided week to week. the first priority is the wind direction, as i try to make sure the rides come home with a tailwind. this is also why we tend to do similar rides at particular times of the year. secondly, when did we do this route last as we don’t want to be too repeative. thirdly, how much do i want to hear lennie complain about the route having anything resembling a hill in it.
saturday 31st august
ride starts under the narrows (cityside) at 5:30am
early lap – earlybird 40.93km spr special
all rides start at coode st carpark at 7:00am
development group – novice shelley 36.06km spr saturday
transitional – trans mosman 40.39km spr saturday
fast & main groups – ewen st 50.26km spr saturday
sunday 1st september
ride starts under the narrows (cityside) at 5:30am
early lap – earlybird 40.93km spr special
all rides start at coode st carpark at 7:00am
short – brktn weir 82.89km spr sunday
At least Lennie turned up the last time this route was planned. Weather conditions will be positively lush compared to when 6 of us did it a few weeks ago!!
Yep, & as i recall, presso woz a no show
Don’t forget the next kit order closes this Sunday, 1st of September. See the team kit page for advice on how to order.
Lennie must have had a premonition about the ride route as we picked this weekend to go away mountain biking in Margaret River. Quote of the day from Lennie “Can we go and do the track with the big berms again……” Amazing what a difference 6 months makes the last quote was “Mountain bikes are stupid they go slow and are dangerous…”
Well, after going back to riding those nasty rocky camel farm trails again I could almost be tempted to revert back to my original position – mountain bikes ARE stupid, they go slow and are dangerous …