ACT Veterans Weekly Bleat, Monday 16th July, 2018

Hello Vets,

In this week’s Bleat;

• Indoor Training
• Racing this Week
• Race Report

Please send me your contributions at: TheBleat@actvets.cc

Ian Morton

Indoor Training

Tuesday is on the trainer night!

Any vets thinking about turbocharging their crit, road or track fitness should grap their trainer and head to the Weston Neighbourhood hall. There’s no Strava segments here or Zwift races to be had just honest toil.

Hall opens 6pm, main event begins at 6:30pm.

Here’s a taste of what Michael Aisbitt has in store for Tuesday. I did it this arvo and I gotta say those last 3-4 1 minute efforts were tough. Go along on Tuesday and tell me what you think.

Tuesday’s program

Warm up
2 minutes easy roll
2 minutes 90rpm
2 minutes 95 rpm
2 minutes 100rpm
2 minutes 105 rpm
1 minute 110rpm
2 minutes easy roll

Workout 1
15 minutes as:
5x (2 minutes big gear (strong, in control) 1 minute small gear over 105rpm). This is a continual 15 minute effort alternating big gear and small gear. Note that the small gear needs to be an effort 105rpm minimum. Push yourself. This 15 minutes should feel like 8-9/10.

5 minutes easy roll.

Workout 2
12x 1 minute big gear feeling very strong (but controlled and achievable) followed by 1 minute easy roll. This is 24 minutes of alternating hard and easy. Hard effort 9-9.5/10 10 minute cool down / stretch.

Enjoy!

Bruce Griffin

RACING THIS WEEK:

Saturday, 21th July: Dalton Graded Scratch

URGENT: Replacement Marshal required. Please contact Ian McVay imcvay@grapevine.com.au if you can assist.

Where: Travel to Gunning, Left onto Dalton Road at Gunning, Approx 10Km to Dalton. Park in Quary at left 100 meters before town.
When: 1:30 pm.
Sign on: 15 mins before scheduled start time wearing your registered number.
Race Description:
ABCD 58km and EFG 36km
Dalton – Gunning – Boorowa Rd ABCD do 2 laps Dalton to Gunning 1st Dalton U Turn at Start area. EFG do 1 lap. Then all head west on Boorowa Rd to end of bitumen (3k) and return to Dalton then north on Rugby Rd to end of bitumen (5k) and return to finish in Dalton.

Race Director: Simon Milnes Contact: Email: simonmilnes@bigpond.com    Ph  0407296418

Marshals: Tony Rowley, Bryan Holloway, Robin Mules, David McCook, Terry Moore

Upcoming Marshal Roster

Thank you to those who volunteered to help (noted below in black) at the races to September. The remaining nominees (in blue) have been selected based on results from the previous summer race season and the period since they last helped at a race. Please advise your availability or unavailability to the race committee (race.committee@actvets.cc) as soon as possible.

I am also looking for more nominations to help in the ‘vacant’ positions at the Summer series races to the end of the year. Crit races at Stromlo Forest Park on Tuesdays will require a Race Director and one Marshal. Summer road races are on Sunday mornings.

* denotes ETC required for ACT races.

Ian McVay
Race Committee

RACE REPORTS:

Yass Graded Scratch – 14th July

A fine contingent of 39 riders made it to the start for a great, and demanding, days racing out at Yass on Saturday.

It wasn’t looking too good at about 11:30 as the area was sitting at a balmy 6 degrees and still shrouded in fog. But the gods were smiling and the mist burnt off to a beautiful still sunny afternoon.

The course was demanding for riders, and organisers, but we got away on time and had an incident free race – if you don’t count a few hundred cows crossing the road at the far end of the course…

Unsurprisingly there weren’t any bunch sprints at the finish, with most riders coming in on their own or with a one or two companions.

In A grade Steve Crispin came in a fair way ahead of Thomas Hartley and Rohan Verco, in B Tim Brown took it from Michael Carr and Ross MacPherson, C saw Conan Liu over Adam Potts and Paul Hollings, Anthony Beasley took out D over Anthony Beasley and Steven Simms, Kirsty Cummin triumphed in E over Gillian Lugg and Elizabeth Lowe, F troop saw Edward Joliffe get over Ian Morton and rounding the grades out was Bernie Crowe in G.

A big thanks to all the marshals and drivers;
Tim Minehan
Felipe Lopes Reis
Ben Davis
Terence Merrigan
Wayne Benham
Elton Ivers
Howard Moffat
Simon Whitehead (SMA first Aid)

And a VERY big thanks to Graham Hendrie for the van, tutoring, refreshments, timing, results, i.e. everything else.

Chris Nolan
Race Director

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