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The Cunningham classic has traditionally been one of my favorite races of the year. Over the last two years, I’ve raced it as an Under-19 and it’s always been an awesome event. This year, I’ve had to retire from junior racing and so what awaited me was a 167km journey – the longest race I’ve [...]

I thought I might as well post something new here because the last thing we did was the Grafton report waay back in October. Since there’s no racing really going on, I’ll take a moment just to have a bit of a ramble at how the beauty of cycling sometimes turns a little sour – [...]

I’m sitting here in the plane flying across the Bass Strait on my way back to Brissie after a long week of racing… and I’m slightly bored. Time to reflect on the last week’s action, I think! We had an awesome week, experiencing so much that you’d think we would have been away for more [...]

(Just a quick update on the last stage)
We have finished racing the Tour of Tasmania. This afternoon, we completed the final crit of the 6-day tour and so we are now on the way home! This morning, we packed everything up and – with heavy hearts – said goodbye to Annie. The final stage was [...]

Today we tackled, for the last time, two stages in one day. Stage 8 was a 30-lap crit on a 1.2 km course with a slight drag upwards on the back straight, while stage 9 was a 80 km road race over the hilly country around Ulverstone just west of Devonport. In the morning, my [...]

Aidan’s been in the paper!
Yesterday, I mentioned that we only have one stage today and that this seemed almost too good to be true. As it turned out… I was right. Today’s race was a 20-lap kermesse run in the neighbourhood around our motel on a 4 km circuit, on which there was one major [...]

Today we took on two events in the tour once again – a 25-lap crit around Burnie on the north-coast and a 97 km road race on a 12km circuit just inland. Yesterday, we travelled to Devonport after the conclusion of stage 4 and arrived at around 8. It didn’t help that we took the [...]

Bobo and I just completed the third and fourth stages of the Tour of Tasmania; a 4.8 km teams time trial around the mountains of Queenstown (yes, you heard right) and a 87 km road race from Queenstown to Zeehan, and are now on the way to Devonport for tomorrow. Overnight, the weather conditions improved [...]

Bobo and me are racing the 6-day Tour of Tasmania and just finished the first and second stages around the west-coast town of Strahan. We flew down yesterday and arrived at our hotel at about 7, settling in for some much-needed sleep quickly enough after building the bikes and having some pasta.
The next morning, we [...]