That’s got me thinking, that was my second best open result on the road. The best was a second in an u16 open at Greenvale on the 56 Olympic course before I smashed my face up in a training stack. 4ths in vic junior crit and 50km title, 5th in the road title. A few top tens in Open company. Did win the B grade (2nd scratch) prize one year in Melbourne to Ballarat but it doesn’t count. That was probably the day of that pic I posted a couple of months ago.
Should have won an u16 country title at Morwell on the Hazelwood Pondage course but punctured about 15km to go after smashing the field. Might have come close as a first year u16 in a Vic title at Greta and as a first year junior in a vic title at Puckapunyal but a late race fall in the ditch and puncture respectively ****ed those up. ****ed a couple of Opens up as well where I should have gone close. An open at Wangaratta, that Junior 50km title, a stupid and really bad fall in the Preston Mountain Classic at Broadford and two Melbourne to Colacs spring to mind.
shoulda coulda woulda. It doesn’t matter, it was a long time ago, I don’t think about it very often and my head fell off after that bad fall at Broadford anyway. I wasn't enough of a killer at 15-19yo and didn’t have enough sang froid. I was cooler and more ruthless when I raced briefly at 22yo and again at 28-29 but was too fat (lost about 20kg from August 2000 to March 2001), smoking and didn’t have a base.
Should have won an u16 country title at Morwell on the Hazelwood Pondage course but punctured about 15km to go after smashing the field. Might have come close as a first year u16 in a Vic title at Greta and as a first year junior in a vic title at Puckapunyal but a late race fall in the ditch and puncture respectively ****ed those up. ****ed a couple of Opens up as well where I should have gone close. An open at Wangaratta, that Junior 50km title, a stupid and really bad fall in the Preston Mountain Classic at Broadford and two Melbourne to Colacs spring to mind.
shoulda coulda woulda. It doesn’t matter, it was a long time ago, I don’t think about it very often and my head fell off after that bad fall at Broadford anyway. I wasn't enough of a killer at 15-19yo and didn’t have enough sang froid. I was cooler and more ruthless when I raced briefly at 22yo and again at 28-29 but was too fat (lost about 20kg from August 2000 to March 2001), smoking and didn’t have a base.