Kelly Cycle Coaching had a big group of athletes brave the cold and wintery conditions on the Phillip Island GP circuit last weekend. Athletes were subject to rain, wind, more rain and more wind throughout the day. In the elite mens race, 36 riders finished out of a field of 181 combined Mens A and B grade. In our CharterMason […]

Kelly Cycle Coaching has been coaching Ashley since October 2010.  A few weeks ago, Ash won a club race in Geelong.  We caught up with Ash and asked him about his training and his first victory. How long have we been coaching you? I joined the Kelly cycling program in October 2010 What is your favourite session you like to […]

Last weekend, Kelly Cycle Coaching took 6 CharterMason team riders to the Mersey Valley Tour. Conditions were dismal to say the least with rain, hail and wind making it tough for the riders. It was a tough hilly tour with two road stages and an 18km time trial held over two days.  This was one of the National selection event […]

Kelly Cycle Coaching athletes, Hannah Macdougall and Carol Cooke competed in the Para Cycling Road Championships in Caloundra, Queensland last week.  Here is how they performed. Australian Para-cycling Championships: Report by Carol Cooke Well last weekend was the “True Test” of the last 6 months of all the hard work I have put in.  It was Nationals time again, only […]

Several KCC riders celebrated Easter Monday by competing in the Kew TT, run by the Blackburn cycling club. The results are shown below.  Thanks to Kevin Andrews for us with a few action photos.  Other photos can be found from the link below.  https://picasaweb.google.com/106323040835214935874/KewBoulieITTSeries_2012?authkey=Gv1sRgCLqd–f76cSrDw Number  StartTime      Race Time      FirstName      LastName E Grade 81      00:07:30       00:21:38       Harrison       McCLIMONT 78      00:09:00       00:22:10       […]

Many of our athletes competed in the Junior Hill Climbing Championships last weekend.  Angus Lyons had a great weekend, winning the time trial and finishing 3rd in road race.  Here is his report: Time Trial Report: By Angus Lyons After riding the TT course the night before I was feeling great. The pre warm-up with the rest of the group […]

A huge congratulations to one of our Kelly Cycle Coaching athletes, Angus Lyons, (Ballarat), who won the Australian Junior Time Trial Championships on Saturday.  He followed up the next day with a bronze in the road race. A full race report to come soon.

Kelly Cycle Coaching Camp Sunday After the Australian Uphill climbing championships our Kelly Cycle Coaching Easter camp got underway.   We listed out all the camp rules and spent some time introducing all the athletes to each other as we had several country athletes attending who didn’t know all our city riders, and set out our expectations of the camp.  This […]

There were over 20 Kelly Cycle Coaching athletes who attended the racing in Mansfield and with ideal race conditions, the weekend was a huge success. The KCC women were well representated with great racing from Vic Snibson, Carley McKay, Maddy Cardillo, Jess White and Jess Laws.  Maddy worked hard in the closing lap of the criterium to position Carley for […]

Two of our masters riders, Ed Smith and Steve Payne, recently completed the Marysville Challenge. Here are their reports: Report by Ed Smith: The Marysville Lake Mountain Challenge is the first event in the centrepiece of Cycling Victoria’s recreational program for 2012, the Netti Challenge Series. The ride had 35 km and 120km options, both terminating in Marysville.  Either ride […]