Brunswick Cycling Club

Attention all women members: StKilda Cycling club, as part of their Port Melbourne crit series will be holding a feature women’s race on the 1st March. For more information please check the StKilda CC web site or check the summer race program.

BCC’s Kendelle Hodges rode strongly to win the silver medal in a top class field in the JW19 Points race at the Australian Senior Track Championships at Adelaide’s Superdrome 3-8 Feb 2009.
Kendelle and first placed Megan Dunn both lapped the field to gain 20 points and put their first and second places well out of reach of the rest of the riders.
BCC congratulates Kendelle on a fantastic effort.
See http://www.vic.cycling.org.au for story and photos

The Inaugural Victorian Women’s Omnium Championship held on Sunday at Disc saw the largest turnout of women to an event ever (close to 50) in the State and was a massive success as a result.

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Brunswick is looking for people willing to help out with the running of the Victorian women’s omnium champs to be held this Sunday 23rd November at DISC. If you can spare some time, please send an email to Caroline Page <Caroline.Page@sewl.com.au> including your name, a contact phone number and whether you can assist in the morning or afternoon (or both) sessions.

Brunswick Cycling Club and Cyclesport Victoria are proud to present the Victorian Women’s Omnium Championships, Sunday November 23rd at the Joe Ciavola Velodrome (DISC) from 9am. Great prizes and a guest appearance by Anna Meares to sign autographs.

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Ciao!

I had a short break after worlds, and now I’m training for the last race of the European season, the Chrono des Nations, a time trial in les Herbiers, France. This town and the surrounding region has had le Tour de France pass through many times over the years, and they’re cycling mad, so the race has thousands of spectators and a great atmosphere. They even use the start ramp from the TT at TdF, and I’m sure more than a few locals get up on it in the wee hours of the morning to imagine they’re Fabian or Cadel (but not Schumacher!)

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Ciao, buongiorno!

When I played Widow Corney, the mean, fat owner of the orphanage in our year 11 production of ‘Oliver! The Musical,’ it was a small but pivotal role. I was the one Mr Bumble confided in when he devised his plan to sell Oliver for a schilling. Dressed in my fat suit and waddling about on the stage, I really felt like a late 19th century mean, fat owner of an orphanage (more…)

This Sunday, Wazza McDonald (National women’s coach), Vicki Whitelaw (teammate and TT stage winner of the Giro Donne) and I will travel to Rogno, outside Bergamo to race the Cronometro Individuale.

It’s 3 x laps of a 7.6km circuit through the streets to commemorate the life of an Italian cyclist killed in 2004. I don’t know why TTs are often named in memory of the dead, and it would be bad karma to make a joke here, so let’s just say Vail, Davide. It will be my first Italian TT, and an excellent form check before Worlds in 19 days (more…)