Austral wheelrace & training

A couple of weekends ago I competed in the famous Austral Wheelrace, which was held at Vodafone Arena in Melbourne. It was the 107th staging of the event which was first run in 1887. I had three races on the night, no results, didn’t make the wheelrace final, but had a great night’s racing nonetheless. The track is super fast with wide corners and short straights. I rode a big gear (94.5 inch for the anoraks) and hardly felt the pedals all night. The photo shows me warming up in full track mode…disc wheel and all (sorry it's a bit blurry). Sweet!

Am now three weeks out from the Australian Masters champs and training is going well. Last Friday night in training I set a time in full aero mode (disc rear wheel, deep-dish carbon front wheel and aero bars) for the 3km pursuit of 3 min 45 sec, a whole 20 seconds (!!!!!) faster than the first time I posted about 5 weeks ago. I put about 5 seconds of that down to aero position, the rest down to improvement. So the training is paying off, just have to hold it together for another 3 weeks……