It was a good day for a ride and Matt Illingworth knew this and wasn't going to let the opportunity of posting another course record pass. As always, he was focussed, powerful and checked off the kilometers with metronomic precision; so very good to watch. But he needed to do it that way if he wanted the medals: Sam Smith and Jon Gregg were out there too and the trio took home the whole collection of Open and Masters' medals. Jo Kocik rode this event last year and collected a Silver medal; today she took home the Women's Gold and Nathalie Laurendeau the Silver. Alison Ramm grabbed the Bronze with a PB as she heads towards her preferred distance: the 160 later this month!

It was notable that in the 40km option, Ben O'Connor was only 0.1km/h slower than Matt Illingworth and in the two-lap option Emily McRedmond notched up another 40+ effort. But although her 'minute man', Matt Tognini might have been under threat in the first lap, he made sure of his safety in the second with a negative split. Jenny Sammons handled the threat from Deb Visentin in much the same way.

It was pretty dim when we were first setting things up at Wandi but we are well into Autumn; the summer season is pretty much shot. Troy had already been busy putting out some signage; WARP were there a bit later. Terri and Jeff together with Lorraine were setting up the registrations desk and Carolyn Equid joined in. Steve Beales had activity along the driveway into and out of the centre under control while Dale Groves today marshalled the starters, feeding them through to Lorraine with the pressure on with 30sec start intervals. With everyone underway, she did some patrols of the circuit. Colin Rose was the final element in today's team. He looked after the last corner on the circuit.