I had a real busy day yesterday - it was full on! I rode to work and back then when I got home I packed the car with my track stuff (bike on the roof etc.) and headed into South Melbourne for the Emerald Hill Brewery Quarterley Shareholders meeting. I managed to get there in peak hour traffic at 6:15pm (meeting started at 6pm) and left the meeting early at 7:16pm (after drinking a pot of Wheat Beer). Track racing at DISC (Northcote) starts at 7:30pm (do you see a problem here?). I flew down Kings Way, King St, and La Traobe St, before ringing my mate who had just finished warming up at the track (at 7:25pm) and asked him if he could enter me in A grade and get me a number as I'm running a bit late.I got to the track at 7:49pm. D grade scratch race was finished. C grade scratch race was finished. B grade scratch race was happening. An official saw me carrying my bike and bag etc. and said "You've got 19 laps to get ready Steve". I said "That's heaps of time". Pat Dougherty helped me change my front wheel and pump up my tyres while I got dressed. I had time to roll around the duck boards for 3 laps on my 93.6 before A grade was called to the start line. I decided to use the 25 lap A grade scratch race as my warm up. The attacks started in the first lap but I sat in safely for a top 10 finish (and a nice warm up). I jumped on the rollers and continued warming up and mentally prepared myself for the Points Race (I was going to win it or die trying. Go Monster, get Angry!).
A grade Points Race. 20+ starters. 29 laps. 4 sprints. I got in a small breakaway early on and won the first sprint by a mile then jumped straight on 2 guys who had jumped away from the bunch and the 3 of us worked turns to the second sprint. I won that too! I just sat in and didn't sprint for the 3rd sprint and managed to stay with the bunch to the finish. I won the A grade Points Race last night. Very happy about that (especially considering no warm up, very sore from beep test, drank EHB Wheat beer on my way to the track etc.).
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5 comments:
Awesome work Monster!!!
I presume your 'mate' was Rowena Geddes? I presume that because well, I guess you don't have that many 'mates'. And cause with my tiny lil' brain. I'm S.M.R.T. Smrt.
My "mate" was Todd from work (he rides C grade on the track) - Mr. SMRTY!
That's the one. An Avanti Pista Track bike Donated by Le Tour Cycles.
Next Year Le Tour is looking at donating a $6000 Specialized Langster S-Works Track bike or an Avanti Pista Pro ($2000).
yeah just checked with le chanman and its as follows
*the s-works for members of cycling clubs other than blackburn
*the pista for blackburn members
(sorry ji, this is a long story and would make no sense to you)
You should donate the Pista Pro to the Series and the Langster to me (for a small fee). How good would that be? Even better if it was free. To me. And I'm not even with Three. You see?
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