Race Report –Amalgamated Tours of Delta and White Rock The inaugural Tour de Delta was a 3 stage tour held in southern Vancouver.  Instead of having a General Classification based on time, omnium points were awarded for each stage.  A week later, the Tour de White Rock was held, a hillier 3 stage race, which has been running for 22 […]

HP Women’s Challenge – 13 – 25th June 2001 Wednesday 13th June – Stage 1 – Birds of Prey to Idaho City – 111km Conditions: really strong head and crosswinds – 10°–16°C.  I decided to race with knee warmers and arm warmers. I was quite nervous.  I hadn’t slept too well – I had a lot of trouble getting to […]

Kalgoolie Criterium – June 3rd – 45mins – 1st Conditions:   30°C Only minimal winds The course was a T shape, with U turns at each point.  There was a gradual uphill to the right end T followed by a long downhill to the finish line.  I did a 20km pre start to turn the legs over and managed to find […]

Menzies to Kalgoolie Handicap – 132km June 4th – 6th overall (first woman) Conditions: 25°C Strong tail winds (doesn’t happen often) Bob and I headed out of Kalgoorlie towards Menzies.  I was a little bruised from my fall and wanted to have a good warmup.  Bob let me out with 30km to go so I could spin the legs over.  […]

National Road Race Championships – 20th August 2000 – 7th Woke up and did a warm up on the rollers for half an hour at 7am.  My heartrate lifted quite well, however I hadn’t slept well and felt tired and groggy.  I had a good breakfast, 3 weetbix and 2 pieces of toast as well as a banana about half […]

Metropolitan Championships – July 2000 – 2nd I didn’t feel too great today.  I am sore down my lower left side of my spine from a slightly strained muscle.  The winds were strong and it was only 13C.  The first 3km were easy and then Kathy attacked.  I went with her.  We worked well, however Sue McCarthy bridged across to […]

Victorian Individual Time Trial Championships – 22nd July 2000 – 1st I did a good pyramid heartrate warm up where I elevated the heartrate by 10 beats every 5mins.  I did this in the S/C/R to keep the cadence high.  I was last to start in the time trial and with 4 girls scratching I had a 4min gap to […]

Victorian Road Race Championships – 23rd July 2000 – 2nd I did a 10km warm up on the rollers at 8am followed by a second warmup of 25km before the race started.  There were only 16 girls in the race.  After 500m Kathy attacked.  I went with her as did Emma.  We sat up and cruised around the first lap.  […]

Hazelwood Power Tour – June 2000 – 1st Stage 1 Saturday 17th –13km I/T/T – 1st One anti-clockwise loop.  Amazingly, about 5 girls missed the turnoff and ended up miles away!  There was one really steep hill which required the S/C/R.  There was also a strong headwind towards the end.  I won in 19min40sec, 7 sec ahead of Jessica Amy. […]

Tour of Bright – May 2000 – 4th Stage 1 Saturday 13th – 14km I/T/T – 5th It rained steadily all morning.  I warmed up on the rollers inside then headed to the airfield.  It rained steadily throughout the timetrial which was an out and back course.  I was reasonably happy with my time, 22min41sec.  Karren Barrow won in 21min09sec. […]