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 […]

Congratulations Bryce on your B grade Sandown win last Tuesday.   What were the conditions like? It was a fairly standard day compared to the average over summer, not that that’s saying much. It was windy, as always, with a thin layer of stratocumulus clouds above.   How did you feel during the race? For most of the race, I […]

Clement Boydell had his first A grade win at Sandown a few weeks ago.  Here is what he had to say about his race: At the start of the race I felt like I had some strong legs and with the windy and cold conditions it was ideal for an early move.  With some really strong sprinters at hand it was the […]