Victorian Club Team Time Trial

Each year there is a small flurry of activity leading up to July to organise a team for the St Kilda Club to enter the Team Time Trial. This is my 4th year in a row that I've had the pleasure of sharing the pain of the challenging course in Buninyong out toward Mt Mercer.
There is an excellent sense of camaraderie this course sets up with a lot going on. Full TT bike handing skills are required on the rolling hilly sections and there is always a ripping wind (one of the reasons why the wind farm looms at the midpoint of the course). Lots of communication is required that can be a challenge with the words lost in the wind and ears are hidden behind TT helmets.
Setting up in the SKCC Tent with the teamies
This year I was lucky to have Dale Maizels and Lisa Coutts to join me in the Masters Women’s team. We had a practice in Melbourne and SKCC had setup a few trial days to get everyone practicing turns with TT bars on bikes and getting ready for the turn around point on a skinny back road.
When the race day came around the clouds parted and the roads were dry, but there was still a cold strong wind. I was happy to have my fleecy ¾ bib shorts on! SKCC had setup in prime position and a spread of banana bread, fresh fruit and lollies to keep us fuelled and to recover with after the ride.
Warming up, pinning numbers on my jersey, nibbling last snacks. All smiles here! Photo: Amy Tan
I setup the Lemond trainer next to the ladies out of the wind and was soon sweating buckets in the warmup – but I knew those little hills on the way out would catch up with me if warmup was not optimal.
In no time at all we were on the start line and off racing! I lead the ladies out and we formed a good line to take the initial descents. It was a side tail wind out and it felt pretty good, but after 5-8kms we were losing Lisa on the descents. Being taller, a little heavier and aero on TT bikes, Dale and I were coasting away. We stayed together for a few more kms then made a choice to continue on with 2 riders, and Lisa kept the pace on in case one of us had a flat and couldn’t finish.

Serious on the start line. Very happy with my toasty clothing choice! Photo: Amy Tan

I was a little worried if we had made the right decision so early, but the deal was done and we passed a few teams from Hawthorn that motivated us and spurred us on. We were shouting hellos to the other teams on course, my favourite was to my friend Manuela Marasco who was almost late to her start (I later found out she went to the wrong TT! There was an individual TT at Balliang and she made it just in time for the start at Buninyong), her team just missed out on a podium. Such a good effort!
Rolling out. Photo: Amy Tan
On the way back we were starting to get passed by the Masters Men's teams that flew past into the relentless head wind. On one uphill section I was so glad Dale was with me as it was starting to get miserable out there. We cheered each other on and finally there was 10 kms to go. I was tiring at this point and couldn't wait to get out of the wind. In previous years when I saw the finish line there was a final buzz and extra energy to chase to the end. I could barely hang onto Dale as she surged ahead, but we set a great time and I knew that I'd given everything I could for the race. 
When we went back to the tent to cool down out of the freezing wind, I welcomed some of the banana bread and more water. It was great to have the club group around to chat to and enjoy the day as so often the Time Trial scene is pretty quiet affair.
We lined up in the hall to find out that we had won the Women's Masters TTT and set fastest female team time of the day. It was a great achievement for the hard work we had put into training for the lead up to this.

Women's Masters Podium. SKCC Gold, Hawthorn Silver, Brunswick Bronze. Photo: Amy Tan
It was also great to see so many teams formed from clubs to come and try out this in a non-threatening race situation (some beginners can find mass start road races confronting). I hope it convinces a few more to try the other races too.
Winners are grinners. Photo: Selfie

Essendon Fields Kermesse and Rapha Women's 100km

Northern Combine - Essendon Fields Kermesse

With all the Time Trials on the race calendar, I was looking for a different challenge and something a bit new. The local club racing group "Nothern Combine" had a new Kermesse circuit mapped out that I was keen to try out if the weather was willing to ease up on the rain.

There are some back roads in the Essendon Airport, right next to Essendon Fields shopping centre that were perfect for a Kermesse race. With a few modifications on speed humps, marshalls and some barriers in place, we were good to go!

The skies were pretty grey on the way out there and it was a freezing wind which did not make for many spectators. I can imagine many coming to watch and rolling over the carpark to Nandos afterwards for victory lunches and coffee on warmer days to come.

There were so few entries in Women's A-Grade that they started us with the B-Grade men. I welcomed this idea as the winds were picking up and there may be some places to hide in a bigger bunch.

I started at the front with Lisa Hanley, however in no time at all I was struggling at the back, then struggling off the back and in no time they were all gone! When I looked around, it had started to drizzle and I seriously thought about pulling the pin, but as there was still 20mins to go, I could get a good workout in, so I waited up for Dale Maizels who popped into view and we rolled turns till we picked up another young lady and then we jumped on the back of the next mini group of 5 riders that had been dropped from the main bunch till the finish.

Post by Jo Upton Photography.

By the end of the race I rolled in at 5th place with a good idea of the course with the back straight head wind and cornering in the damp conditions. I am definately keen to get out there and race on this new course again.

Always fun to wind up a sprint! Photo: Jo Upton


Rapha Women's 100

I really enjoy the Rapha Women's Ride each Thursday morning at 6am. It's a mixture of road, paths, flat, hilly, springy hills, goooood coffee and cherry toast at AllPress cafe. The ladies are rare to skip a ride due to bad/cold weather and it keeps the morale up over winter to do a good ride like this and keep in touch with the community.
Ready to roll
One of my fav moments was staying up late to watch le Tour de France, getting some sleep and rocking up to the start to yammer on about the stage finding that 3-4 other ladies had done the same as me! I was so deleriously tired that it took me to the next day to realise that I too had only had 4hrs sleep like the rest of the ladies.

Get your limited edition Rapha cap and Jackets online. Photo: Von Micich
The past few weekends I have been out with a few of the Rapha ride leaders working out where the course would run so we could direct our groups around the 100km hilly course. In true Rapha style, there would be some challenges for all riders, but more notably the inclusion of some gravel roads and muddy paths.


 The Sunday of the big ride rolled around and I was one of 3 ride leaders for the last group to leave AllPress. Dubbed the "fast bunch", we took off at a steady pace and found that the group was a mix of seasoned riders and a few newbies that had not ridden 100kms before. The first leg up Studley Park Road was the decider, and I dropped back to pace on a few riders, while Nadine O'Connor was pushing a few riders up the hill. There was about 95 km more to go and it was going to be a long day. By the time we had hit the first section of path, I realised we were going to need to break the group into at least 2. Nadine was nursing along 1 rider and I had another 3 while Hazel managed to pace the rest of the group and keep them together.
Rolling ahead to take a pic of the ladies on the hill
The next 30kms were pretty slow on the path along the river and we let Hazel take off with the main group. We rejoined them at the halfway mark.

This was also the first time I had used my Garmin 810 Maps with a pre-loaded course and it was a great way to keep on track with the unit beeping when I was off-course. With my maps loaded as well, I could see when a turn was coming up and had ample time to warn the group. We did not get lost or have to turn around at all. I am certain to try this feature out again for new adventures.

The hand of GOD - thanks Nadine!
After many hills, sections walked, a mini stack, tears, snacks and pushing uphill... we arrived at the midpoint. We reshuffled the group and I went to help out Hazel with the front part of the fast bunch, but that meant there was only time for a pitstop and no coffee for me as they were ready to roll out.

Last section just before coffee!
From this point forward I really was able to enjoy the ride. The pace was on at a comfortable speed and I was the gate keeper for the back markers. We had a great descent and then climb up along the dirt ridge and climb back up onto the route we rode out on. It was so much faster on the way back with the group more confident on the paths, we overtook a few groups and came back to Allpress for a beautiful lunch almost right on 1pm. 
Lovely table settings

 We were the first group back, but each of the other groups rolled in soon after. Nobody was left behind. Some riders rolled home straight away, and others joined us for lunch. By this time I was pretty tired, and was a zombie eating lunch. Afterwards I remembered that I needed a coffee and pepped up before the ride home.

A sip of champagne with Kats - sparkling as always

It was a great day out meeting riders who had only ever ridden Beach Road, seeing old friends who like an adventure, sharing with new people the fun, freedom and riding tips that I've gathered along the way.

Happy days with Deb-star! What a great day out.

At one point I reflected that this ride last year was my first 100km since breaking my collarbone. It feels like I've ridden a million miles since then. New job, new house, new achievements and challenges. You never know what will pop up next to expand your horizions, I'm hoping it will be something great!

This next month I have a few more TT's, a new bike and some SNOW adventures :) see you out there!!
All Press goodies of some filter coffee and phone pouch for the wet weather.

Cycling Victoria Castlemaine Time Trial and St Kilda Time Trial Championships

Cycling Victoria Castlemaine Time Trial

Harcourt again hosted the Open TT for Cycling Victoria and the categories were ability based/graded.

I tried pretty hard not to put too much pressure on myself battling a head cold that everyone in Melbourne seemed to have caught, but as Shane was racing I thought I'd give it a go and see how far off pace I might be.

The weather rolled in as we were headed into town and the roads were wet. I jumped on my road bike to do a bit of a warmup on the course, with Shane and Stephen. The road surface was pretty good and Shane loaned me his awesome HED 90mm deep carbon front wheel. The bike looked slick with this teamed with my disk wheel (sorry no pics). All of a sudden, the time disappeared while doing a warm up and it was show time in no time!

By this time the temperature had dropped again and it was drizzling, windy and pretty demoralising. I rolled up to the start line and noted that one of the officials was from NSW! That is a long way to go for a TT, but it is much appreciated :)

The ride was pretty tough on the uphill way out. I remember the helmet starting to fog up, and it was a little better at the turn around when I started going downhill on the way back, I passed a rider and could see Grace Phang behind me was gaining time.

Within the last few kms Bridie O'Donnell flew past me like I was standing still. There was not much left in my legs and I pushed to the line with my minute rider tussling on course not to lose any more time.

In the end I came in 4th, only 12sec off the podium behind Grace Phang in 3rd, Rachel Ward in 2nd and Bridie in 1st place.

St Kilda Time Trial Championships incorporated with the Northern Combine Championships


One of my first TT's in 2011 was out at the Northern Combine in Balliang and I came in 3rd for the Women's Grade.

I thought that there would be a strong showing of the A-Grade SKCC women for this event, so I entered the Masters 123 grade to race against riders closer to my own ability.

The previous few days in the lead up to the race had been foul weather with high wind gusts, rain storm and SNOWMAGEDDON on the Victorian Alps.

Races had been cancelled at other venues, but we were GO for the TT out in Balliang. There was no rain, but the wind was strong and cold. I'd found a quiet spot to setup the LeMond trainer and got started on the warmup.

Warming up
This week I started to feel much stronger and clearer in the head and my sessions (all indoor this week) were starting to show better numbers so it was going to be good if I could reproduce that on the road.

Start Line - staying calm before the storm. Photo: Jenny Miller

Everything feels different in extreme conditions. I used the 50mm front wheel and the disk wheel and was reconsidering my choice on the way out into the killer head wind. The first segment was awesome until I hit the cross wind and nearly had my bike fly out from underneath me. So I focused on holding my aero position and pushing my weight onto the front bars to spin, spin, spin. Before the turn around I'd passed 3 riders and saw there was a guy 1km back in the muddy shoulder trying to fix his wheel. I hope he hadn't crashed!

I had quite a few cars on the course and a memorable one was the 4WD with a trailer that swung between me and an oncoming rider instead of slowing and waiting a mere 10 seconds for us to pass each other.

With the massive tail wind on the way back, I was FLYING! All I could hear was my breath and the ripping sound of the disk wheel. In the cross wind section I lost all my speed and nearly decked it on few more corners, but managed to get through unscathed.



When I drove the course, I noted there was a big pothole on the last corner and we'd swing into a head wind so it was going to be a dangerous corner. Again there were two more cars coming through the intersection so I slowed down and it allowed me to take the last corner really slow. Later I heard other riders were caught out and crashed or misjudged that last corner!

I finished the last section and was going to roll up the road to cool down but was nearly swept off the bike again so I cooled down on the trainer away from the wind.

It was so great after I'd packed up to chat to the 2014 SKCC development squad ladies and remember back to 2011 when I was in their shoes, but back on that day the weather was not so bad!

The final results showed I had won the WMAS123 and to my astonishment, was also the fastest female SKCC member.

Women Masters 123 podium

I skimmed through the results and it seemed that I had ridden the best time for a SKCC female member, and to top it off Shane had topped the men's list and we had dual podium and club champs.

Sharing the top step

Gaelene from SKCC confirmed the results and we took a couple of podium shots. The real presentation will be later in the year, but for now I'm chuffed to SKCC Club TT Champion for 2014!

Victorian Metro Championships & Cycling Victoria Geelong Time Trial

I'm not sure what the history is around the Metro vs Country Championships, in fact I'd like to see a paragraph per race on the Cycling Victoria site to describe who these races are named after (e.g. Cecil Shore, Fred Icke), maybe a some history about the race and a winners honour roll.

Although the numbers were low in the women's grades, the best part was the racing was still on and still red HOT!

Warming UP with awesome autumn colour

The masters women raced with all age groups together for the 56km. The steady climb out of town whittled the field down to 3 before the first left hand turn to cross the freeway. Nonie Carr, Jo O'Shaughnessy and I were to battle out the rest of the 50km race together.

There was not much to report during the main part of the race except rolling turns, a few leg testers on some hills, comments on the weather being ok, and the thick smoke from a farmer burning off up the climb.

The main climb starts at about 35km along the course and is pretty sedate at the start then kicks and kicks harder again. Every single year I am dropped on this hill. This year I was determined that this would not be the case and steam trained over the top first. I had a small gap but fumbled my gears, dropping my chain as I desperately tried to get into the big ring to spin downhill.

Post by Jo Upton Photography.

I wanted to bring someone with me to the end and it was Nonie that chased back on. We gathered ourselves after the descent and had about 9-10km to the finish. There were a few rolling hills before the final descent, but I couldn't remember how many were to come before the highway.

We were still doing a solid pace but I knew I had to try something on the last hill at 5km to go. So I gave it everything and it was just enough to get away, but as I saw to the top of the hill it was not the highway home and there was still another climb to come - I had a moment of doubt that I could keep the pace on for one more hill.

I just focussed my mind on the rest of the ride being all downhill as I struggled up the last lump to then zoom down the freeway. There was a moment of relief that I had made it over the top first, but Nonie had caught me on the other descent so I needed to keep the pace on hard chasing my own demons downhill to the finish. It wasn't pretty, but it was pretty FAST coming in at 55kmph, I don't know what I was thinking, but I pulled out a sprint to the line and finished first!

Podium shot


This was one of the early road races I had competed in when I first started racing and it was really great to have beaten the hill and taken home the Metro Masters Women Championships win.



I have been resisting for a while now, but finally accepted Shane's help in the last month with preparation for the time trial in Geelong. This was my first TT (outside the tour last month) where I could test out my form and see if I could get a better average speed and good 20min power number in competition. For some reason CV had decided I should be in A-Grade for this Open event.

We had formulated indoor sessions, tweaked the equipment, eaten the right food, slept like royalty... but sometimes on race day - you don't feel like racing :(

I have no idea what the problem was, I could barely string a sentence together and the last thing I felt like doing was a hard interval session. This is where preparation is key, and experience pays off. I slapped myself around and got into automatic mode to get setup for the warmup, got it done and onto the start line.

Warmup Selfies!


Generally I am very poor at judging time gaps and working out if I am making time or losing time in a TT. With this new out & back course in Geelong it took all the estimation and calculation out of it and I just had to judge where on the road I was each lap relative to my opponents while riding as hard as I could.  So on the first lap I took note where I passed the other ladies I saw in A-Grade while struggling to hold power numbers I was comfortably cranking out the week prior.

The next 2 laps I judged if I was up or down the road from that first lap and knew I was in the chance for a podium position. We finished up and I compared times with my mates from B-Grade, if I had have been in my usual grade I would have won the category! Up for this next challenge I knew that I was not near winning time from Lisa Hanley - but I wanted to know how far off. No results were provided except for 1st place in each women's grade.


If my mood was sour before the race - it was darker afterwards not knowing what the result was that I had travelled and put the last month of effort into preparing for. Needless to say I'm pretty results driven person! I left a message with the club to update the online results and in the end I went back to the hotel in Torquay to try and relax.

While pottering on the internet waiting for the Giro to start, I see a message come through on Facebook from the team boss that I had come 3rd! AMAZING! The data wasn't anything to be proud of so I was not confident of any result, but the end result was pretty good. Massive thanks to Shane for his direction over the last few weeks - get low and go aero!

Woo Hoo! Podiums! YAY!


Late night beach walks with my beardy man

2014 Tour of the South West

After an eventful 12 months of roller coaster riding that is cycling, all the ducks had lined up for me to give Tour of the South West a second chance. Last year I had a cracker crit season and ripped up some mega intervals to feel confident to enter Women's A Grade - but was cut short in the first stage.

Signs to do TOSW:
  • Last year I'd won an accommodation voucher to use at Lady Bay that would expire right after the tour this year.
  • I had put behind all of the racing demons - I just had to go back to set things straight with this race.
Due to the new rules for VRS, I couldn't enter A-Grade again as I'm graded as B and I don't have a team to jump up with. That solved some of the nerves about getting hustled by the teams again as a solo rider.
Team Thule Australia Subaru decked out

Here is my detailed report of the weekend from Women's B Grade - it's a bit long winded.
Stage 1 - 51km Road Race

It was raining when I woke up early on Saturday. The bikes were loaded onto the car and out to the start in the dark and drizzly conditions. Shane was buzzing with negativity as he was not starting till later in the morning and I was trying to keep positive and have motivated energising thoughts. At least I was still feeling confident as I wheeled up to the start line in the drizzle and mud while everyone else looked grumpy.

Drizzly Morning

It was windy, but hopefully that meant it would blow the rain band away and dry out the roads quick smart! I was sad to see a few of my mates had not made it to the start line due to illness, but there were 10 women. Plenty of new faces and fresh legs in the bunch that I needed to test out on the road.

We had 1km neutral zone to get out of the gate and settle as a bunch which was better than last year when it was on before we all got out of the gate. I sat on the front so I could feel how the breeze was an adjust the game plan for where the action sections were going to be in the race.

I was relieved the first QOM was un-manned and I passed the first 7km crash point un-scathed! After this I was very happy with a tail wind and took off for a bit pushing the pace. There were a few comments before the last corner where we were held up before the turn into the long headwind straight when C-Grade men passed us. I was asked why I was riding so fast in the neutral lap.  At that point we all had a good chuckle and set off into the headwind racing this time - though it seemed that nobody was interested in doing much into the headwind at all until lap 2 or 3 of the circuit when QOM and sprint points would count. So I guess you could say that the first lap was neutral.

Post by Jo Upton Photography.

In the second lap I worked with Purdie Long into the headwind section, and pushed the pace without all-out attacking up the small kicker climbs to the QOM. Annie Mollison threw everyone off guard and attacked 800m from the line! I kicked and Purdie went with Annie, but I just managed to hold onto 3rd place over the QOM from Sam Abbott. As soon as we got over the top Sam, Purdie and I swapped off turns for the next 3-4km till we were chased down on the next set of rolling kicker hills, then we were all back together for the headwind.

At least at this time the rain had stopped and the roads were drying up. There was a bit more action as we got to 1km to go as there were sprint points up for grabs.

We had the final lap and had not lost any riders, from the bunch. It was time to try something different. Manuella Marasco was driving hard into the headwind to the corner, then Purdie and I were keeping the pace high and punching over the climbs

When the final QOM came in sight Purdie took off and crossed the line first, Annie got past me for second and Sam was hot on my heels. Jo O'Shaughnessy and I worked turns till the headwind and took a breather to regroup before the finish. I had no idea what my sprint legs would be like, but predicted that Purdie and Annie would give it a go to the finish.

There was a headwind slow rise up to the finish. I'd thought that 2km to go was the time to try something on, but must have left it too late. I attacked a few times to get the bunch to speed up and jumped on Purdie's wheel to the final grind.

Purdie ended up leading out the bunch, but I was boxed in as the group swarmed and Sam came around all of us to finish first! I was in a bit of disbelief that it was all over and I still had a little left in the tank, but the first 7 riders had all gotten the same time. Let's do another lap!

1st Sam Abbott 1:40:10
2nd Annie Mollison
3rd Jo O'Shaughnessy
4th Purdie Long
5th Veronica Micich
Stage 2 - 12km Time Trial
I had been doing a bit of work to get more consistent and comfortable on the TT bike. I had bought a few upgrades for the CV TT series and the few tours I was planning on competing in over the year. I managed to get out to test them all out just before the event to see if it would all work together.

Trying to focus before the start

The start was gooooooooood. With a tailwind I felt like superwoman and overtook 2-3 riders before the first turn. When I came to the turn I was coming in fast and that new disc wheel was not moving like I thought it would. There might have been a bit of side skidding and me screaming YeeeHAR! at that moment and I felt my heart jump out of my chest even more than the pace I'd been setting. I focussed on settling back down and punching over the little rollers while keeping aero as there was a real nasty side wind that was blowing me across the road.


Post by Kosdown Performance Cycling.

The right hand turn into the main headwind section up the big climb was a real test, but I'd kept a little energy in reserve and had verified the climb was only a few hundred meters on the test ride the day before. I hit my power target up over the top as I caught another 2 riders and chased another one down toward the final corner. I love having carrots to chase!

The Hill doesn't seem so bad at this angle!

Somewhere along the line I'd developed a stitch and as I was trying to raise the pace up toward the line I was breathing like a steam train and hurting bad. I crossed the line with nothing left in the tank and rolled along the road to almost a standstill in the head wind. I had no idea how I had gone, but I wanted to get top 3 desperately to validate those TT simulations and commutes and efforts had made some kind of difference!

Photo: JXP Photography

Meg Marsh let me know that I'd won the TT when I was cooling down on the wind trainer and I was so relieved and happy! As an added bonus I had also moved into the leaders jersey and had managed to put some time into my fellow competitors.

I had a long wait till shane finished his TT, we packed up the car and prepared for the Crit the next day while waiting for all the A-Grade Men riders to finish to find out that Shane had won his Masters A-Grade TT and had set fastest time of the day 0:15:53! A bit more work to do for me to close that gap!

1st Veronica Micich 0:19:53.92
2nd Sam Abbott 0:20:05.02
3rd Purdie Long 0:20:09.76
4th Jo O'Shaughnessy 0:20:35.46
5th Rebecca Stephens 0:21:23.45

That night we went to the presentations at the Warrnambool Art Gallery and I tried to recruit a few riders that were out of the time cut to assist me in the final stage. They couldn't win it overall unless there was a major split in the field and I lost time, but they COULD win the stage. Everyone was pretty tired after a long day, so I'm not sure there were any takers.
Criterium 30mins +2 laps
The next morning it was sunny beautiful blue sky day and there was a tailwind up the climb of the crit circuit - how good is that!

Warming up in the sun. Might be the last option for tan line top up.

Shane raced earlier than me and I got to watch some epic racing as the grades finished up.  I warmed up on the Lemond with a view of the climb as I waited for my start and picked up a few tips.

I had an 11 sec lead on the group which was going to be tough, but if I could keep with the front runners, I only needed to watch 2 riders in Purdie and Sam. I was first into the corner and pacing myself against the surge of the group up the climb. As we approached the top I pushed over to hit the downhill first and see how fast and wide to take the descent and into the head wind. It was a repeat of the road race where we would just tempo into the wind to roll across the line and hit the climb again and again.

Keeping near the front on the early laps

I felt pretty comfortable on the climb. The only time I was a little worried was the intermediate sprint where I made it over the top on Sam's wheel and we pushed to the line in the head wind and I came 3rd to her first place - so there was now only 5 sec between us. I couldn't quite do the math at max HR trying to follow the wheels, but knew my options were to either win the stage or get 1 place better than Sam.  Jo had gone for a breakaway that had been reeled back in before the 2 lap warning.

Into the final lap I drifted back to about 6th place, not paying attention through the final corner. Sam attacked on the climb, caught at the back I tried not to panic as I saw a gap open up. By the time I'd hit the top of the hill, three riders were away. Nobody to help now - I had to close the time gap as GC was counting on it!

Sam placed in the sprint and with the time bonus' had enough to take the overall lead by 3 seconds! I was both devastated and grateful it was over safely and I'd still hung onto 2nd place and had a pretty good race and tour.

The final sprint - I didn't quite get to close the time gap
Overall General Classification
1st Sam Abbott
2nd Veronica Micich
3rd Purdie Long

At the presentations we lined up on stage for our overall photos and when I went to leave the stage they asked me to stay, presented me a cake and all sung Happy Birthday to me. It was a great way to spend the day, sharing it with so many of my friends and competitors in Warrnambool.

Happy girl with Marty Tobin after the race. Thanks for the cake!

After being quite hesitant to return to the Tour it was well worth the trip.  Marty Tobin from Sam Miranda and Paul Lumsden from Cycling Victoria were so welcoming, great supporters and so encouraging to race. I hope to return next year to go one place better!

The prize haul! Lots of good memories too :)
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