The road was stilll damp at the start and only drying slowly in the cool conditions; the slight NNE breeze didn't help nor make it any easier heading up the slope to the finish. But about half the field were riders returning for a second go at the Kings Park Sausage and a good number of them achieved PBs. Quite a few riders had an inkling of the likely conditions: there were lots of arm- and leg-warmers and jackets along for the ride; Ian Klasens was possibly anticipating even worse and rode with mud-guards!

 Matt Storer was well on the way to a PB until he seemed to look for a 'lap out' after his third, did a lap or so of the warm-up circuit then returned to finish his race. Travis calmly posted the first 40kph average for this course - not easy when you have to come to a near stop nine times. Jessica Allen again led the women home and showed the way to most of the Midland Juniors too although not many of them needed any 'showing' and seemed to know their way around this sort of a course pretty well. Youngest rider on the day, Jai also managed to claim second best time on the Standards crtiterion (the 'fastest was Bredan, almost a minute better than his previous effort) and, in fact the first nine places on this system were filled by Juniors if we include Travis (technically no longer a junior on our reckoning although still one under CA rules)

Many thanks to our usual band of helpers braving the morning chill: Nicky and the penguin family; Susie and Lorraine; Ginnene and junior Gaskells and Andrew Mackie manning the barricades at either ond of the sausage.

Next month at Wandi (we will rename it Wandi Park for the benefit of the Winter Series) we intend to try our new chip-timing system for the first time - exciting times eh? And, hopefully we'll be back at the other 'Park' (Shenton) in September