Brunswick Cycling Club

Taken from the Wangaratta Chronicle

WANGARATTA mountain bike star Alex Meyland showed his prowess isn’t just restricted to the dirt on Saturday night by taking out a thrilling win in the prestigious Wangaratta Wheelrace.
In a stunning night for the local youngster, Meyland not only won the wheelrace but also claimed both his scratch races and took out the 1000m handicap title.
But it was his victory in the wheelrace the feature cycling event of the night that was his best win and he said it took a while to sink in.
“I’m very happy to have won it,” he said.
“It was a bit of a shock for sure. It took the announcers a couple of goes to find out who won and then it took me a little bit to realise I had won.”
Starting off a handicap of 180m, the race was set up for a cracking finish when the entire field became bunched with two and a half laps to go.
Meyland, well aware of the pace of the riders that started behind him, placed himself exceptionally well and went for the win at the right time, just holding out a fast finishing Sam Crome.
“The plan was to keep an eye on what was going on behind me, initially,” Meyland said.
“But the field came together with about two laps to go so I had to place myself in the right spot. Then it was all about letting loose at the right time. Sam was on my wheel the whole last lap but I managed to just hold him off.”

Congratulations to Emma Pane on winning stage 2 of the Division 2 race at the Women’s Grand Prix yesterday. The race was won in a very tight fast finish in sweltering conditions. The Brunswick team is ranked 6th in the teams classification out of an impressive 16 teams. Well done to all team members Emma Pane, Rebecca Williamson, Sue Cox, Nonie Carr and Von Micich. Not all of us are Brunswick members but we are all flying the Brunswick banner. Stay tuned for round 3 in Bendigo on Feb 12th.

Another weekend of track racing for the under-15 and under-17 boys and girls and this time the stakes were high with State Championship medals and State Team selection up for grabs…

Overall, we can be extremely proud of our juniors who all dug deep to deliver medals and and many PBs. Saturday saw the time trials and pursuits; while Sunday featured the Sprint and Scratch races. Might be easiest if we sum up each category individually.

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With the overall title for the JW15s going to Ruby – and Greta, Ryan and Riley all finishing in the top four of their respective categories – along with assistance from James and Isaac Pane (in Melbourne) and Riley Terrens and Emily Dunk (in Adelaide), Team Brunswick shone bright throughout the hugely successful National Junior Track Series.  The series, a CA initiative, was dragged kicking and screaming to life pretty much singlehandedly by Max Stevens.  Max has been in the sport for some years with stints heading up Cycling South Australia and as Stuart O’Grady’s manager amongst many other roles.  Max has to be congratulated for pulling it off when many were doubting it could be done in five states in the first year.

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The Brunswick Carnivale of racing on Saturday was a race fest!

We had the U11 & 13′s pencilled in for a flying lap TT, the 30 second challenge (350m TT), 3 Kerins each, and a points race.
Throw in a Handicap to finish off with and you have 10 kids who were guaranteed a good nights sleep!

Sarah Gigante was the lucky one who got to take home the box of wagon wheels for her efforts.

Next up were the 15 & 17′s and with the final round of the NJTS and the Vic Titles less than a week away the program was tilted towards keeping the speed in the legs and the mind on full alert.

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The largest Brunswick Junior contingent in living memory (my memory anyway which maybe spans five-years) made the trip to the border towns of Echuca/Moama for its annual Junior Carnival.  The two-day weekend event included novice racing – which appealed to many of the our clinic kids – as well as the State Scratch Race Champs for the under-15s and 17s.  With 13 licensed Brunswick juniors competing together with half-a-dozen novices’ and a BIG contingent of hangers-on/taxi drivers (mums, dads and siblings) there were 36 for dinner on the Saturday night, and even then we missed maybe another 10 club members (sorry to those that missed the impromptu invite!).

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That’s right, last saturdays race action caught a few by suprise as those who had spent their Christmas cheer doing the Carnivals had some sting left in their legs.

The warm up rose to new heights with the final lap becoming an upupupupupupupupu up fest reaching 69 kph for the white wheeled wonder Brendan Bailey

The Saturday “elimination” had 5 200m sprints which had everyone’s tongues hanging out by the end.

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I am typing this from the car on our return from Wangaratta the last of the four carnivals. I did not race but I feel exhausted! Brunswick riders did the club proud. Some memories from the carnival (apologies if I’ve missed any important results):

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