atta

Early-bird 5-26

RESULTS
17.0km - Kings Park
2025-12-30

CONDITIONS: Sunny; warm (17°-22°); mod easterly
RECORDS: Open: 
21:41.8 Ben O'Connor Dec'25; 25:11.3 Sophia Sammons Dec'25
Road-bike:  24:21.4 Oli Stenning Dec'25; 28:06.7 Rachael Wales Dec'24
Junior:  23:48.4 Michael Storer Jan'15;
27:05.0 Mackenzie Coupland Dec'22

 

Final Results
Bib Cat Cat
Place
1 2 3 4 5 Total Speed Standard
Time
Std
Place
Comment

The PBs are based on speed to allow for some rides on the first version of the course when the start/ finish was at the city end of the sausage. The start/ finish moved to The Pines for the 2013 series.

The PBs Table for riders at 1/01/26
Category Speed Prev
Best
When?

 

 

ParkBird POINTS

BIP eb5_26
    Total
Points
Av
Speed
Rides
  Sophia Sammons     195.6 39.3 5
  Mackenzie Coupland     112.9 39.4 3
  Ann Brinkamp     104.5 35.1 5
  Fiona Whelan     95.3 34.4 4
  Lily Suckling     74.1 33.7 3
  Tanya Birkbeck     72.9 31.1 5
  Lucy Kitching     70.3 32.1 4
  Larissa Roth     67.5 31.5 4
  Indiah Coupland     61.7 33.0 3
  Kate Atkinson     57.5 32.3 3
  Alex Joyce     46.8 31.8 3
  Holly Taylor     41.4 30.9 3
  Rachael Wales     31.0 35.8 1
  Bronwen Anderson     30.4 31.3 2
  Kate Bonner     30.4 35.6 1
  Ella Phelan     28.2 34.7 1
  Elyse Rowe     27.2 37.4 1
  Shelley Neville     26.9 29.5 2
  Katherine Ross     22.0 32.3 1
  Sabine Bird     21.4 32.1 2
  Emily Mascaro-Anderson     21.0 32.5 1
  Penny Spicer     18.5 27.5 3
  Shelby Tillett     16.2 32.3 1
  Jeni Tunnicliffe     16.0 30.0 1
  Chynna Wilde     15.9 30.0 1
  Lauren Humphreys     14.9 31.2 1
  Alison Thorman     14.7 30.3 2
  Jane Deane     13.3 29.3 2
  Sue Broughton     12.6 27.8 3
  Daisy Popebrien     10.0 27.7 1
  Roberta Richardson     8.2 27.5 2
  Louise Attley     7.3 26.6 1
  Cathy Bush     2.9 26.2 2
  Leanne Pearce     2.0 24.6 1
  Cat Goddard     2.0 28.1 1
  Marina Thorman     2.0 25.9 2
  Felicity Lines     DNF   1

 

 

Race Report

Early-bird series—2026 #5.
There's a new year imminent and we're already past the solstice; two EBs left after this one. It's about 17° in the park, with an Easterly blowing as usual in order to moderate the trek up Lovekin…

With 725 rides under his wheels with this mob, Greg Perry is having another attempt at the 5-laps; several have joined in for the first time: Daisy Popebrien, for example. Richard Williams and Neil McDougall have cranked out another five laps each. Those chaps have a few laps to their credit around the roads of the park; I've chased them down Lovekin a few times m'self but not recently…

Campbell McDowell is setting the pace at the moment, lapping under five minutes. But Jack Dohler is tracking faster now; Campbell has finished with another PB, displacing Loic Draoulec who has been sitting on top of the list for quite a while. Jack has jumped into #1 slot, also with a PB (2sec). Leighton has a lap down now and the fastest time; Mackenzie is collecting her swag of BIP points and Sophia has again conceded about 1sec on lap 1.
We're down to the last man, Ben O'Connor who should be about to start. …yep, fastest time for lap 1: 4min21. Can minute-man Matt Burton hold him out—he's lost about 12sec in the first lap; it'll be close?
Sophia is now ahead by a couple of seconds; Mackenzie has finished with a 26sec PB. Sophia has an 8sec lead into her final lap. Ben is collecting the sweat flying off Matt Burton and finishes 13sec (1min13 ride-time) ahead—a PB of 1min12. Matt actually finishes a sec or so ahead of Ben's previous—certainly a decent PB of his own! Ben's time, however, is a new course record, pinched from Luke Durbridge.

Sophia finishes 10sec ahead of Mackenzie, a PB and another course record! Mackenzie's time is also under Sophia's old record and well under her own unchallenged record as a junior. So, course records are nicely book-ending the fastest ten of the results rankings

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