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Dear Rouleurs,

Its been a huge weekend at MMT, with AFL and Comedy Festival in full swing in Melbourne. Sadly, one half of MMT was in Bay M23 watching his beloved Tigers impersonating Greg Norman, circa 1996 USA Masters, when they lost in the last 15 seconds to Collingwood by 1 point. Enough said…..

Last Sunday, 3rd April, was the third charity ride event on MMT’s calendar, Ride the Bellerine, ac charity event intended to raise funds to end Polio contagion in developing countries. Being organised by the good people of Rotary in Geelong, its a well run event for a very worthwhile cause.

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MMT noticed the inaugural ride in 2015, but couldn’t get his act together to attend. Apparently, the weather on that day was truly awful, so MMT isn’t feeling too bad about missing out. However this Sunday’s weather was perfect, cool, overcast and not much wind to speak of.

The course starts and ends in Geelong’s Eastern Gardens and loops around the Bellerine peninsula via Barwon Waters and 13th Beach. I did the short course 60 km, as I was uncertain of what the various hills in that part of the world.

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Apart from one reasonably steep hill between the 10-12km mark, it was a relatively easy ride. The course and gradient chart is shown below.

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So onto the some photos, again MMT was fortune to coax the other half of the team into support and photographic duties. So have a couple of nice photos, plus the ones I took on the ride.

C’est Moi 🙂 With new Jersey and old Wilier.	Start line in Eastern Gardens.
Feed and Drink Stop at Barwon Waters.	Barwon Waters Causeway.
Posing in front of the event banner.	Wild surf on 13th Beach.

I have to say I really enjoyed the day and was glad MMT made the trip down to Geelong. My next planned ride is the BAD ride in Ballarat in May. Before I sign off, I have to say to Peter Sagan who seems to have shrugged off the ‘curse of the rainbow’ jersey easily with a very impressive win in the Tour of Flanders on Sunday night. I really thought Fabian Cancellara was going to catch him there for while.

Until next blog, ride safe

Marv

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Dear Rouleurs,

It has been a couple of weeks since I’ve had a chance to look at this blog. Unfortunately the job I do to fund my cycling addiction was actually interfering with my cycling addiction. Needless to say this was making me a bit cranky. I digress.

However, I was very lucky to participate in the Ballarat Cycle Classic, a well organised charity ride that supports cancer research, last weekend. The day was superb with good, sunny weather in the morning, before warming up in the afternoon. I did the 60 km version of the event as I a bit scared by some of the course stats I was reading. The 85 km and 100 km versions looked pretty difficult. The course profile is shown below.

What I can say is that the first climb isn’t too bad provided you are in the right gear, something I managed to stuff up. The second climb is just really hard work. About 2/3rds of the way up Mt Buninyong Road I really thought I might not make the top. A gradient of 5.3% might not sound like much but the average hides a few tough sections. I was very glad that I had swapped over my bike’s crankset set and cassette. After passing over the summit, the next 25 km or so aren’t too bad. The overall course looks like this.

Ballarat Classic 60 Km Course

So onto the some photos, MMT had a team photographer taking some happy snaps, so for once I actually have some decent non-selfie photos.

Marv looking cool on his Wilier 😉	At the starting line, with all riders.
Having a break, Mt Buninyong in the distance.	Some idiot put it chain ring side down…d’oh.

I have to say I really enjoyed the day and was glad MMT made the trip up to Ballarat. Over the next few months, I’ll also be doing the MS Cycle and Ride the Bellerine.

Until next blog, ride safe

Marv

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