RIDE THE "WORLDS" TO SEND JULIE TO THE "WORLDS"
SUNDAY 4 JULY - don't miss this one-off opportunity to revisit the battleground of the '90s and race the "Burleigh Worlds". This event is to raise funds to help Julie Barnett get to the World Masters Championships in Portugal later in the year.
There will no prizemoney paid but special edition trophies are being made and donated by local rider and stonemason, Jeff "Willy" Wilmott.
Entry fee is $15.00 for seniors & $10 for juniors. 2 raffle tickets will be given to each rider and raffle prizes & other donated prizes will be drawn on the day. Raffle tickets will also be sold to spectators and volunteers for $2 each. One of our favourite mobile coffee vans - Cafe Mobile by Lucia - will be on site from 6.30am.
Start times - 7.00am for D Grade & juniors. 7.30am for A, B & C Grades.
Restricted open event - Open for all riders with CA licence, entries taken on the day. As from 1 July, 6 month licences will be available from Cycling Australia for all the ex-Burleigh Worlders who are training hard and want to revisit their old glory days !!!!
The course is in the industrial area of West Burleigh bounded by Central Drive, Hampton Road, Taree Street & Hutchinson Street.
If you wish to donate any raffle prizes or primes, donate your services as a traffic controller or corner marshall or have any queries, contact Tim Francis on 0411 378606.
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2010 Queensland Elite Masters Criterium Championships
Great news coming out of the Queensland Elite Masters Criterium Championships held at Nundah in Brisbane over the weekend.
All of the Goldstars riders performed strongly with several riders achieving top three results
MMAS 8 & 9 Ron Grant 3rd
MMAS 6 Peter Flynn 1st
MMAS 5 Greg Sands 1st
MMAS 4 Andre Clayden 1st (by inches !)
WMAS 2-5 Julie Barnett 1st
Elite Women Loren Rowney 3rd
Congratulations to everyone who participated and go Goldstars !
2010 Rydges-BellCity Australian Masters Track Cycling Championships
MMAS5 15km Points Race Final
1 Kim THOMAS Fatboys C.C.
2 David FAIRBURN Bendigo & District CC
3 Arch DAVIS Gold Coast Goldstars CC
Photo is not that great, but you get the picture. And, in Goldstars strip.
Also, our resident female trackie champion has done it again. Julie Barnett has won the sprint, the 500 Time Trial and the Scratch Race.
Watch her in the Sprints.
WMAS4 500m Time Trial Final
Place Name Club Speed Time
1 Julie BARNETT Gold Coast Goldstars C C 45.53 39.532
2 Helen GRIFFITHS Gold Coast CATS Cycling Club 44.48 40.470
WMAS4 5km Scratch Race Final
Place Name Club Time
1 Julie BARNETT Gold Coast Goldstars C C 7' 54
WMAS 4-7 Sprint Final Gold Medal
Place Name Club Times final 200
1 Julie BARNETT Gold Coast Goldstars C C 13.479, 13.396, 12.99
And, Ron Grant took Bronze in the Masteres 9 Scratch race
MMAS9 Sprint Final Bronze Medal
Place Name Club Time
3 Ron GRANT Gold Coast Goldstars C C 14.801
Junior National Track Championships Melbourne
Jesse Kerrison has added more medals to his tally winning Gold in the 500m Time Trial and Bronze in the Team Sprint with fellow Queenslanders Brendan Hill and Jordan Toyne. He also came 5th in the 7.5km Scratch Race.
He had already won a Gold Medal in the JM17 500m Time Trial - he rode an impressive 33.788 and the National Record stands at 33.76.
Danica Kloppers is also enjoying her first experience racing at National level and 11 seems to be her lucky number. She came 11th in the JW15 Sprint, 11th in the Time Trial with a time of 42.059 and also 11th in the Individual Pursuit with a time of 40.78.
Well done Jesse and Danica !!
Jesse Kerrison Joins the "Racing Kangaroos"
On Friday night the 5th Feb 2010, Carolyn, Jesse and I jumped in the car at about seven in the evening and headed off to Inverell for the launch of "The Racing Kangaroos". We arrived in Inverell at 1.30am on Saturday morning.
At about 10.00am we walked to the local pool, and met up with the other parents and boys who have been lucky enough to be selected in the team. The team were all given 2XU clothing, consisting of knicks and a jersey and a polo shirt. The gear will become the teams training kit once 2XU has finished the complete racing kit, which will include jackets and vests as well. We were told the design is quite special and was a bit of a secret, we can't wait.
Then Kurt Pollock the team director, rolled in a brand new 2010 Cervelo R3SL, with Sram red and Zipp 404s. These will be the team bikes with every rider getting the same bike. U15 and U17 riders will have wheels that through Zipp are being specially made out of alloy so as to meet the junior wheel rules.
Then all the riders registered for the annual Heinrich Haussler crit. which this year doubled as the launch race for the team. All team members raced very well, with Jesse winning B grade. He was entered in A grade but the NSW commissaires would not let him race A grade due to his gear restrictions, so be it.
Next, we all went to the Inverell RSL club for the team launch to what Carolyn and I thought might be a small affair. Well, there were Cervelos hanging on the walls and banners up every where for the sponsors, Heinrich Haussler's stage winning jersey from the Tour De France, and I immediatley thought the evening might be a bit more special than I first thought. There were 300 plus people there, with ABC and SBS media, Rupert Guiness (cycling journo), Stephen Hodge as MC for the night, a member of NSW Senate, representatives from all sponsors and many more. The night proved to be interesting.
What made Carolyn and my head spin, was that the whole evening was for 12 kids that we had watched develop into a cycling team, and of course that our son was part of it.
A couple of highlights, were Heinrich Haussler Snr chatting to the room as if he were speaking individually to each and every person in the room, telling us that in each rider in the team he can see the promise he saw in his son many years earlier. The audio link to Heinrich Jnr was brilliant, as was the audio link to the Head of Cervelo in Canada. At the end of the evening the riders were all introduced to the room, with both their individual clubs and individual coaches being recognised.
Today, Sunday the 7th, the team has been on the road filming a documentary, complete with a light aircraft circling them getting footage. Tomorrow a helicopter is to be used to gain more vision. It was confirmed last night that the team will be racing the Canberra Tour, New Zealand Tour, New Caledonia Tour with Germany still a possibility in the future.
Things are happening faster than Carolyn and I thought possible, with a long road ahead still, but we are all having way too much fun.
Regards
Darren & Carolyn Kerrison
Club Ride January 3
About 50 Goldstars met at Maccas Helensvale at 6am for the first part of a 20km loop to Hope island. The group was under the control of Mal Rae as I picked it up at Labrador. Without too much fuss we continued around via Hope Island back to Maccas to start the second part of the ride.
As we left it must have been 30 degrees and very humid. All was going well until we left the Strawberry farm when the group split going up the first hill. I was pacing a few riders back onto the group when I heard Sharon Watson's rear tyre go bang. I stopped to help change it but there was a hole in it I could put my finger through ... she wasn't too happy as she really wanted to complete the ride.
From there we proceeded via the Jacobs Well cane fields and returned as one group.
What a great day, fun had by all and a definite regular activity for our club.
Tim Francis- Club Captain
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New years Day Criterium 2010 Report Click here
