PedalPushers ANZAC DAY RIDE
What started out a wet morning turned into a beautiful autumn day. 25 riders left Pedal Pushers for the 184km ride from Palmerston North to Napier to commemorate Anzac Day.
MMCC INDIVIDUAL TIME TRIAL 20KM
SUNDAY 28 FEBRUARY 2010 – MMCC INDIVIDUAL TIME TRIAL 20KM
The first MMCC championship event of 2010 on Sunday 28 February 2010 was the ITT 20km on the Ashhurst – Pohangina Valley Road out and back course. Entries from club members were only 17, 2 women and 15 men, which was disappointing.
A Pleasant Ride in the Coromandel Hills…Sort of!
It is Sunday 13 December and five riders from the Manawatu (along with 50 riders from the Waikato and Auckland Region) are tackling the Waihi Midsummer Madness time trial.
It has to be the toughest time trial event in New Zealand. I make it 127km with about 1360 vertical metres of climbing. Apparently there is some great scenery…but I have to admit it is hard to fully appreciate that during the ride.
Tour de Vineyards … Hot & Hard!
A last minute decision to enter this tour was a good one, to race with New Zealands top elite riders was a real eye opener.
I was a really nervous at the start but learnt plenty of skills from the guys, it’s a lot different riding from your average local fun ride. There’s a lot of nerves running though you which means you have to be on the ball the whole time.
Nelson is pretty well known for hot temperatures and sunny days. Apparently this year was the worst conditions they have had for a couple of years but the weather was still really nice.
HUB TOUR 15/17 JAN 2010
The weather wasn’t too inviting this year for the 2010 Hub Tour in the beautiful Hawkes Bay, but the results for our Marist riders where excellent.
Sjoerd van Wagtendonk and Luke McCarthy rode A-Grade with an impressive field of riders including Michael Torkler, Tom Findlay and Jeremy Yates. Both Sjoerd and Luke finished the 5-stage weekend, which was a great accomplishment in itself with such a big field of national riders.
The LION Foundation Wellington-Auckland Cycle Challenge
A couple of weeks after my Aussie 900+ km adventure Christine and I lined up for the start of the 13 stage 750 km cycle challenge from Wellington to Auckland.
Initially I thought the stage style of ride would be out of my comfort zone as I would normally have preferred to attempt it in one stint but we both found that the stages although fast were manageable and the organisation first class.