24-25 Nov 12: Another busy weekend of cycling at the velodrome. This time, with juniors right up to senior and masters riders combined, the velodrome was surely buzzing!! Work and training have peaked the past two weeks, so a short report this time.
Round 1 – Individual Pursuit
Qualifying: 16s PB from last year, broke the four minute barrier – absolutely STOKED!!!
Finals: Got a little too excited and went out way too hard on this one, popped massively 4 laps in – was puffing and heaving for the last 2km so didn’t quite have the legs in the end.
Still lots of work to do on pacing, but that’s just one step closer to goal time!!
Round 2 – Time Trial
A late night at the track from the Footscray track open the night before led to a groggy start on the Sunday. Nothing new with the 500m – those fast-twitch fibres were well and truly fast asleep this morning. Nonetheless, another silver to the bag!
Round 3 – Match Sprint
I love watching this cat and mouse event – one of tactics, strategy and sheer velocity. Had never done a match sprint in my life, so I was really keen on giving it a shot! As an enduro, the key was to go long, to get that first jump. The qualifying flying 200m saw Lauretta
and I separated by one hundreds of a second!! It was going to be a close match of the enduros. Alas, Lauretta got the jump on me and I was left chasing her wheel to the line.
Another 3 silvers to the tally!! Huge congrats to Lauretta who took home the golds and the overall Vic Track Cup title! Thanks again to my coach Simon for the support and all the volunteers who helped make it another great weekend of cycling.
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| 3 silvers!!! :) |
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| Trying really hard! |
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| Match sprint podium |
