After he finished, Richard Woods thanked us for sending him and Mark off before Matt and Andy. I wasn't sure whether to take this to mean they had that little extra 'motivation' to avoid being caught or the opportunity to post a new course record even if was to last only briefly: 37.4sec, in fact. Either way, it was a great result for both teams. But don't go away yet, Anna and Sarah-Jeanne took an even bigger chunk off the Women's record than the blokes removed from theirs: over a minute. It was definitely not a bad morning to do great things: the flag flapped for a while before the start but settled down to a flutter which was pretty good for this time of the year; on Mundijong Road, so close to the scarp.

While Holly was not able to defend her Women's record while still struggling to recover health and fitness it was good enough to see her at least riding and putting a dent in Mark's ability to sustain his claim to be ATTA's slowest rider.
So there were quite a few PBs recorded. These are individual PBs of course, regardless of whom a rider may have ridden with on other occasions. But perhaps the 'Gents' does offer the opportunity to find that little bit extra.
Congratulations, of course to the venerable Michael Guerin and his gentleman partner Mark Burke who add their names yet again to the Standards trophy although things are getting pretty competitive in that realm. But we must not ignore the efforts of a couple of riders at the other end of the pack: young pups Trent and Matt. Unfortunately we didn't have a Junior record for them to break as they almost certainly would have done that with their superb ride.

As he prepared to ride home again, Christo wanted it noted that he and Brendan had suffered out on the course after having ridden down to the event. Yes, well: enough to maintain his membership of the 40km/h club at least. It was obviously a great day to be on your bike and there were others who were also intent on getting in a few 'quality' km together with a few extra km at a more leisurely pace; presumably.

Susie was back on her bike today together with Aviva (aka Jeannie) but not until she had signed the course. Yep, we shouted her a cuppa after the event. Lorraine did the start after setting up Jenny Sammons and Natalie to look after the registrations desk - they did that admirably. Steve and Sandy McKiernan took charge of the busy Kargotich/Mundijong intersection; Peter Vaughan and Peter Fallon did the other busy corner further back along the course at King Rd; Phil Gyford and Amanda Bowman looked after the other two corners. Jofish kept one finger on the manual backup-timing button while otherwise busy field testing hisattaTime modifications. Great work, everyone!

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