This year’s Metropolitan Championship road race was conducted in near perfect conditions at Mount Alford, outside of Boonah. Cobra9 had a small representation this year with recent injury and illness troubles. Read on for a few snaps of the action – the upside of not being able to participate….
Monthly Archives: May 2012
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The new designs for Cobra9 winter arm warmers and gloves are just in. I think they’ll make a nice addition to the outfit and some new must-have items heading into the colder months.
We’ve finally made time to upload photos from the Criterium. Congratulations again to all who participated and organised the event. Our general feeling was that the standard went up another level this year, along with the number of entrants. As a famous cyclist once said, It doesn’t get any easier, […]
It’s over for another year. The annual Battle of the Border was run and won and Cobra9 gave a good account of ourselves in Elite B. 9th overall to Scottish (25 seconds down) and some good efforts for stage wins demonstrated the we were certainly amongst it. Not bad for […]
Last day. Nervous tension is always palpable before a tight tough crit. So close to being taste a cool beer!
Frantic finish into a headwind with a race to last corner. Some near misses in the bunch but still a good sized group at the end. The hallmarks of this stage are the harrowing pot holed bottle loosening descents and the leg sapping little climb with 15 to go. A […]
Backing up is always hard to do. The pain from yesterday (heart rate 195bpm) is too fresh in the mind to convince yourself that anything other more of same is in order. It’s do or die today. Any time gaps will be very hard to make up tomorrow The boys […]
Stage 1 road race proved a less beastly version then last years version. The climbs peaked 30 km before the finish allowing a bunch gallop to the line. Unfortunately I cramped and missed the final selection but the other boys animated the finish with repeated attacks. Each attach was met […]
Blink and you’ll miss it. 10 minutes of 100% intensity then it’s over. It’s amazing how soon after you cross the line you think you could have gone harder. Defiantly a course that needed some recon. The boys were a little disappointed with their times. I think not knowing the […]