When I was 26, I would jokingly refer to my bike as the CWM (Cross Wind Missile). I'm not 26 anymore...

About Me

My name is Dean Russell and I raced road bikes and some track endurance in the 1990s. I stopped racing in 1999 when I was 26. After almost thirteen years of being a lazy slug I decided to put my sorry backside onto a bike seat and have another crack at racing. This blog chronicles my journey from being completely unfit and overweight to becoming one of the oldest Elite A grade riders in Queensland...and then slipping nicely back into Masters racing.

Tuesday, 31 January 2017

Race Report: A Grade Club Criterium, 28 January 2017

I wouldn't normally blog about a club criterium, but this one had five special features that I think are worth talking about:

1- It was my birthday!
2- It was the first club race I have won for well over two years.
3- My three girls (Nadine, Megan, Hayley) were there to watch me.
4- Second place was a fourteen year old future hitter named Declan Trezise.
5 - There were a heap of great photos taken by local photographers and then posted on some of the Toowoomba Cycling Facebook pages (thank you to those photographers).

So the race... Pretty standard club race at Glenvale. I attacked plenty (as did others) and we ended up with only four of the ten starters sprinting it out for the win. I sprinted hard and early and managed to hang on for the win:







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