Tour of Bright Stage 1 update

[lynds]

Vikings dominate! At least in numbers and spirit:-)

In exciting news, Frances has taken out Stage 1 of Women's C grade in a sprint finish, with the rest of the Vikings team performing very well. Frances also leads the KOM, after her and one other took off up Tawaonga Gap together. A break of 12 formed initially after Rosewhite Gap with the VIkings controlling the group with a strong paceline. Superstar Sue also collected some sprint points along the way.

Vikings are also a large force in Men's C grade, setting the tempo for much of the race, took some sprint points with Bossie, KOM points with Mike D, and Andrew L finishing 6th overall and just 14 seconds down. Mike finished a close 17th and Simon D in 21st place.

Super domestiques Ben, Jamie and Dan destroyed the bunch at various stages of the race doing a great effort for the team.

Stay tuned for more updates. The ITT is next up this afternoon.

[Driver]

http://www1.your-sports.com/details/index.php?page=4&eventid=3508&lang=en

[joel]

Nice work people and thanks for the update!

There's some very good VCC/CCC results up in MB as well

[Vanessa]

Some excellent results all round - keep up the impressive work Canberra riders!

[SimonD]

Frances won the ITT too. Leads by 40 seconds.

[lovetoride]

Yay, go Frances! Awesome work. All the best for today to everyone

[joel]

Nice work Andrew Lake 10th overall GC in MC!!! (Time to get a TT bike)

[Vanessa]

Very impressive Francis - go girl :)

[lisak]

Frances, you rock!! What a top effort. Can't wait for the race report.

[Etienne1989]

nice work andrew, does anyone know tor went in B Grade?

[Etienne1989]

Just looked up the results, nice work andrew 10th overall

[Driver]

Quote of the day;

"gee my legs hurt walking up the podium steps...."

Frances McNamara
5/12/09

[Startrek]

Well done all ,Frances you rock.

[Vanessa]

Come home guys - the forum is so boring without you!

[SueP]

It was great riding with the WC bunch - with vikings/CCC mob up front and very visible! We had another good day today, everything going to plan to the bottom of the climb. Unfortunately Francis dropped her chain right at the start of the climb and took a little longer than she probably would have liked to get rolling again. Gave the girls a good 500m start up the mountain but managed to get back to them (I was no help having burnt most of my matches in the sprints). So Francis ended up third on GC but i reckon it would be pretty tough to have to chase first up on a climb like that. Fantastic effort also to Lyn, Erica and Emily who were up there adn Shridevi wasn't that far behind. I had a tough day after trying some gels that didn't agree with me.... but managed to drag myself to the finish line and happy to have managed the sprinters jersey and a decent ITT effort yesterday.

[Vanessa]

Sounds like a great job Sue - well done :)

[dadcram]

well looking at the results for Masters 6+ the winner was 13minutes faster than MC winner!!!
Great work by all those that entered and started! There seemed to be a lot of DNS's. Maybe it was the leftovers from Movember that did it?

[Chris]

well looking at the results for Masters 6+ the winner was 13minutes faster than MC winner!!!
Great work by all those that entered and started! There seemed to be a lot of DNS's. Maybe it was the leftovers from Movember that did it?

Masters 6+ do the shorter 79km Stage 1 rather than the 105km (107.9km by speedo) Stage that B, C, M1/2/4 and M4/5 do.

[SimonD]

I think you just broke Daz's heart, Chris.

[Simonsky]

Nice work all around Vikings! Looks like all the hard work paid off. Bit of bad luck with the chain Frances! Looks like you all had a fun time. Kinda sad I didn't come now. Oh well, next year.

And noice write up in the local newspaper. Good to see the publicity machine in action!

Well done youse all!!!!

(Hey Jamie, where's the clappy handy icon thingy gone!!!!! The thumbs up doesn't quite do it.)

[j_young_80]

I've not actually seen this write-up yet, I can only assume it's coming to my mail box shortly.

I will upload some more emoticons for you lot!

[Simonsky]

It was in the northside rag. You should get it in up your way. It's got your picture in it!