Author Brad Peppinck The penultimate round of CCC crits got started with very welcome clear skies, although a strong headwind down the home straight made for challenging racing. The Junior HC saw Quinn Peppinck pushing hard solo to maintain his ...
Read More »Crits Round 17 Race Report
Author Brad Peppinck Season Points: https://my.raceresult.com/187536/ Week By Week Results: https://my.raceresult.com/groups/4741/ Round 17 of crits was blessed with perfect weather; warm, sunny, and barely a breath of wind.Indeed, even the kangaroos decided to largely stay away and let the road ...
Read More »Crits Round 16 Race Report
Image Courtesy Flynn Hopkins @the.athlete.collection Author Brad Peppinck You would have been forgiven for thinking that it was a round of winter crits as the mercury dropped for Round 16 catching many riders unaware and possibly keeping a few of ...
Read More »Crits Round 13 Race Report
Image courtesy Lindsay Cameron Author Brad Peppinck Results: https://my.raceresult.com/groups/4741/ Warm and windy conditions greeted the riders for Round 13 of Crits although with many riders still away on holidays or down in Ballarat for the Road Nationals, numbers were still down ...
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Image courtesy Lindsay Cameron Author Brad Peppinck Results: https://my.raceresult.com/groups/4741/ There was a post-holiday feel to the first Crit of 2022 with smaller bunches across all fields, but that did little to impact the aggressive racing in windy conditions. Proceedings kicked ...
Read More »Carts Christmas Crits Race Report
Image courtesy Flynn Hopkins (the.athlete.collection) Author Brad Peppinck Results: https://my.raceresult.com/groups/4741/ The Carts Christmas Crits got off to a bang early on, quite literally with thunder, rain, and heavy wind gusts reducing Stromlo to a less than hospitable place to spend ...
Read More »Crits Round 10 Race Report
Images Courtesy David Blucher Author Brad Peppinck It was a familiar script for round 10 of Crits with the forecast storms failing to materialise, more than 100 riders turning up to try their luck in the blustery conditions. With the ...
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Images courtesy Flynn Hopkins (the.athlete.collection) Author Brad Peppinck The weather gods again smiled on the CCC crits as the promised thunderstorm failed to materialise. In the traditional curtain raiser, the Junior HC, attacking riding across the age groups brought seven ...
Read More »Crits Round 8 Race Report
Images Courtesy David Blucher Author Brad Peppinck Not even the forecast of heavy rain could dampen numbers for round four of Crits with more than 120 riders prepared to take on the elements. In the traditional curtain raiser, the Junior ...
Read More »Crits Round 6 Race Report
Image Courtesy Lindsay Cameron Author Brad Peppinck Storm clouds ominously served as the backdrop to the second round of crits with the strong numbers from week one repeated and some very positive racing. Fast becoming a crowd favourite, the Junior ...
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