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Sun, 27 Mar 2005

Canberra Results from Australian Masters Track Championships - 16:15

Comprehensive results have not come out quite yet, but I'll try to remember the Canberra riders. Of course I was not at the whole track carnival, so I'm just re-counting the last day.
Track
Pete Ganss - 3rd place in the pursuit and rode well for 6th place in the 10km
Leesa Carson - attacked with two laps to go in the 10km and finished 5th
Jeff Culnane - Hang on bravely to a class field, ended up 9th
Steve Jones - Made the pace high in the 10km and was there at the end
Neil Skipper - Got away in a few breaks, but got delayed in the final two laps to come 6th
Me - Retired at lap 28 of 40, victim of the fast pace in the 10km

More on the road later

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Wed, 23 Mar 2005

Australian Masters Track and Road Championships - 22:09
Neil and I have just come back from the Australian Masters Road and Track Championships
Neil rode well and got a second place in the crit and was in the chase group behind Paul Rowney the eventual winner in the road race over 90km. The level of competition was as high as I expected, I did not reach my goal of staying with the main bunch in the 10km on the track, the crit and the road race. In the end I was happy to be in the main bunch for 70% or so of the race. I stayed with the bunch for 28 of the 40 laps on the 10km race, then in the crit I was there till lap 22 of 30. My biggest achievement (and previous weakness) was the road race, where I stayed with the front bunch for 2 of the three laps of a 32km loop. I survived 4 major attacks and made the initial selection when the peleton was exploded by a major series of surges on the biggest climb of the race. A strong cross wind was the major factor in the race.
I'll post some results from the local Canberra riders in the next few days.

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Sat, 05 Mar 2005

I'm a geek now, officially. Maybe not a very bright one. - 16:14
With the Help of Mike and Steve I've installed, and now using linux on my pc. Between them they decided that Ubuntu was a good distribution and it is. I managed to install it quite happiliy, except for the soundcard bit and I don't quite understand the file system and where I can find my two hdd and external usb drive. But other than those minor issues I'm most impressed. I even manged to install a ftp client which I've just used to bring this file to you all.

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