Cyclosportif L’avalanche de Vallee d’Avon - CycleRoad Race

Approx time because the official results aren't out yet.

Cyclosportif is a West Australian cycling club that organises events over winter. Its a team time trial format, where you form a group of 5-10 people and you're all let off at about 20-30 sec intervals, the point is that you work together as a group to cover the distance. There is only one timing chip per team.

We've got a good team that does what its supposed to, we don't take it too seriously and whilst we do push hard, we do stick together and wait for slower riders, which not all the other teams do. The course was lovely, York is so pretty in winter. It was a cold morning but the sun was shining and there was no rain. The first 30k or so was flat and we rolled most of the way, averaging about 30k/hr. Then the easy bit ended and we turned into some serious hills! However thankfully there seemed to be more downhill than uphill, so apart from a few short but very steep climbs it was quite manageable. One of our team didn't bring enough to eat or drink so struggled a lot towards the end, but we helped her along.

It was cute to see a lot of the farmers & their families standing out the front of their properties waving and cheering, I kinda felt like I was in the Tour de France LOL!!! ;)

Not a lot.

I was meeting some friends back in the city at 3pm so as soon as the race was finished, I said good bye to the team and headed straight back home, had to give the catered lunch a miss :(


I was pleased with my performance, I should do more hill training, I was fitter on the bike when I was doing that.


Cyclosportif always puts on a good show :)