The Macdonald Shaw team gained a lot of experience in Tasmania for their first NRS race.  It was  a logistically challenging race with 4 vehicles heading over on the Spirit of Tasmania to take 14 road and TT bikes, rollers, trainers, tents, chairs and luggage.  The boys flew into Launceston on Friday, rode the TT course in the afternoon and then prepared […]

Mt Baw Baw – Report by Hayden Eynaud On Sunday the 10th of April Aaron Eynaud, Clement and Munro Boydell, Trent Morey and I raced the famous mount Baw Baw classic.  It was unfamiliar race for a few, seeing it was our first time to tackle the mountain. With Trent in A grade, the Boydells in B and Aaron and I […]

On Sunday, the State Criterium Championships were held in Castlemaine.  Our Macdonald Shaw/CharterMason team successfully won the title.  Here is Brad Wills report on how the race unfolded. Sunday April 10th was the day of both State Criterium Championships and Baw Baw Classic, which saw the team divided into the races that suited the riders abilities best. The riders that […]

School Sports Australia National Triathlon Championships This week Emily Dunk returned from ‘sunny wet Queensland’ after competing in the School Sports Australia National Triathlon Championships.  Emily is a talented young road and track rider who also enjoys competing in triathlon, open water swimming, netball and karate.  Below is Emily’s triathlon report. Last week I attended the School Sports Australia National Triathlon […]

Australian U19 Mountain Climbing Championships Clement Boydell competed in the U19 Australian mountain climbing championships last weekend. Here is how the time trial and road race unfolded for the Macdonald Shaw cycling team. Last weekend our Macdonald Shaw team competed in the U19 Australian mountain climbing championships, and with sunny conditions the racing was looking to be good fun. On Saturday, […]

Australian Schools Cycling Cup – Shepparton Race Report by Liam White Apart from the 4.00am start on the morning of the Road Race my body felt fine and I was ready to go.  As I had raced the course a couple of weeks previous in the Oceania’s, I felt reasonably confident about knowing where I had to be when the […]

Australian Junior Mountain Climbing Championships Drew Morey is an athlete of ours, who has trained consistently over the last 12 months and was rewarded with some great results last weekend.  As a first year U17 rider, he was up against older and much bigger riders. For those who know Drew, he is still a pocket rocket sized rider, but hasn’t […]

Australian Hill Climbing Championships Over the weekend of 2 and 3 April, the Australian Time Trial and Hill Climbing Championships were held near Bright, Victoria. We took 20 athletes to this race, most of them raced, whilst our elite women took the opportunity to do a 3 day climbing block of training in absolutely perfect weather.  It was 18-20C every […]

Cycling Australia Junior Mountain Climbing Championship, 2011 An U15 athlete of ours, Ben Andrews, writes about his experience at the Australian Hill Climbing Championships on the weekend.  Ben loves his cycling and is very discipined with his training.  He loves nothing better than going on weekend rides with us to Kinglake and Humevale, where he gets to practice his climbing and other important bike skills. Here is his […]

Over the past four days, we had all our U19, U23 and elite riders compete in the Oceania Road Championships in Shepparton. We also had two athletes compete in the time trial on Thursday. Thursday – U19 28km individual time trial Michael Hale and Bryce Morey represented Macdonald Shaw and Kelly Cycle Coaching in the Oceania Time trial.  The course was […]