road race - Uriarra Homestead 17 April 2010 at 1pm

[HenryT]

Uriarra Homestead
17 April 2010, 1pm start

Third race of the 2010 road series and pointscore
Prize pool now sitting at a cool $5700.

This is the last race before the Canberra Tour. This race uses roads that will be used in the Canberra Tour. This is a popular course for those preparing for the tour or wanting a good club-level race.

One lap of the course is from the start at Uriarra Homestead, down to just before the drop into the crossing before heading back past the homestead and on to the end of the bitumen and then returning to the homestead. Total distance per lap is approximately 30 kilometers.

Course Map can be found here.

Grades/Distances

Grade Distance Laps
MA 60 km 2 full laps
MB 60 km 2 full laps
MC/WA 60 km 2 full laps
MD/WB 30 km 1 full lap
ME/WC 30 km 1 full lap

There will be racing for juniors with the course likely to be from the homestead down to the turn before the crossing with the finish at the homestead.

Details:
• Racing starts 1pm on Saturday, 17 April 2010.
• Registration will open at 12noon.
• Times-7 tags: remember to bring yours tag or if you don’t have one then contact Jason Parkes at jpparkes@three.com.au for allocation of a permanent race number/Tag.
• You won’t be eligible for points under the points score until you are properly registered in Times-7 nor will the system show your name in the results.
• Entry is $5 with a Times-7 tag and $2 for juniors. Entry without a Times-7 tag is $15
• For safety, riders must have a current (2010) Cycling Australia licence. Day and general licences can be bought at the time of registration. Please arrive early to allow time for processing.

The event marshals are: Stephen Blackburn, Mark Hurwitz, Daniel McNamara, Adrian Middleton, Bradley Morton.

The Race Director is Henry Thomson who can be contacted at henry04@tpg.com.au or ph 0417 049 536 for further information.

Prizes for the points score will be sourced from Velo Republic in Kingston and the Bike Shed in Braddon, Gungahlin and Phillip. The confirmed prize pool is now $5700.

[anla]

Thinking i might drive to stromlo and ride out from there - anyone else keen to jump on board to share the driving? Maybe leave stromlo at 11:45...

[j_young_80]

yeah i'm up for that.

[Hoops]

I'm in.

[Avi]

See you at sfp 11.30 guise!

[Bean]

bugger... for some reason I thought this was Sunday. I have a 5th birthday party to attend

[tor.lattimore]

I'll be there.

[JCarmichael]

ill see you there

[Vanessa]

I might come join you guys for the train out there but don't wait for me I might drive a bit further if I'm running late

[Stevo]

Thinking i might drive to stromlo and ride out from there - anyone else keen to jump on board to share the driving? Maybe leave stromlo at 11:45...

Hey Andrew,

Can you bring the VCC signs with you please? I will meet you there at 11:45.
CCC need them for the Canberra Tour.

Cheers Mark

[Vanessa]

I'm out - think I'm sick :(

[Ross]

Huge turnout for this race, I heard 140 riders!

C grade was a pretty surgy bunch, especially coming back on the first lap from Uriarra. We all stayed as a bunch (must of been about 50 riders!) until the second hill towards Condor where the bunch started to string out. I was cruising along sucking a bit of wheel getting dragged back to the bunch after getting on a bad wheel at the start of the climbing and literally going from mid pack to last. I stayed on this guy's wheel until the last climb about a km from the end of the bitumen. I then went around him and made up a heap of places on my own but was still about 50m shy of the main bunch. Another 500m of hill and I might of been able to bridge. Turnaround and a small group of 4 formed and we in a ragged paceline of sorts and start working together and picked up a few riders as we headed back to the Homestead. Soon a bunch of 20 or so is formed and we are within striking distance of the main bunch. Unfortunately by this time I had buried myself on the way back down the false flat towards Uriarra trying to catch a smaller bunch and had dropped my pooper valve and was off the back solo. It was a tough solo ride for me back up to the Homestead. I could see a Vikings jersery in the distance and was determined to catch him. It took all my remaining strength to do it, finally bridging to Avi just before the Homestead where we both decided 1 lap would do us for the day. There was still a bunch of 15 or so C graders some distance behind us but we'd decided we'd had enough. Respekt to those that kept going!

[Sam]

Disappointed I missed this today, managed to sprain my finger yesterday messing about with the footy and can't grip the bars properly at the moment. A few days with ice should fix it up though.

[Stevo]

I'm out - think I'm sick :(

I feel sick now after the race. Hit the wall about 5kms from SFP on the ride back. Soon came good after a VB and snickers bar at the Chapman IGA.

Wow what a turn up 140 riders!!!! I think that is a club record for Canberra.

Well done to Jason, PeterG and others for a well run event.

[SueP]

I bonked on the way home as well - guess a banana at 11:30 is really not enough for lunch, let alone fuel for the ride out, race and ride back! And yes - I should know better.

[j_young_80]

I think I prefer your tack-ons to ours Stevo. Pierces Ck on the way home was not near as tasty as a snickers and VB.

Massive turnout which was great - the pace in C grade was pretty hot - I tapped out after a lap and a bit.

Big thanks to the marshalls and organisers - great day!

[SSSimon]

Mate, that's the biggest club race I've ever seen in Canberra! Somehow something really jelled. It is probably many factors, i.e 1)nice weather, 2)Canberra Tour coming up, 3)ACTAS riders attending, 4)Vets race canceled, 5) prize money offered.

I was spruking next Saturday's Kermesse at SDTT - I hope we can get a big roll up for that one.

It was one tough race today, I got dagged from B grade on 4 occasions and chased back on 3 times, the last time going towards Condor I was spat for good. Team up with another rider and apparently we came in 1m20secs down, so not too embarrassing.