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Paris-Camembert UCI 1.1

Paris-Camembert went a little bit better than Route Adelie de Vitre. Although we didn’t come away with our body weight in cheese (the prize for first place?!) I managed to make it around with the front group, and Sam Spokes…

Route Adelie de Vitre UCI 1.1

Route Adelie de Vitre. This was my first race in Europe, and I was very happy to wake up with slightly warmer temperatures than the previous few days and wind forecasts of less than 10km/h. The same can’t be said…

Pitcher Partners Casual Graduate

Last week, you might have noticed I had a couple of days off the bike and didn't upload anything to Strava. The reason for this was because I was in Queensland with the accounting firm Pitcher Partners for their annual…

23rd March 2016

Oceania Road Race

Last year, I did not have an enjoyable Oceania's campaign. I registered for the TT but did not start due to lack of preparation and not actually having a TT bike. A few days later in the road race and…

12th March 2016

Tour of Oman

Coming home from the Tour of Oman with the White Jersey on behalf of the team (for the best young rider) and 7th overall in the General Classification really does feel awesome! Here's a few words describing the tour, the…

24th February 2016

Tour of San Luis

Hola! Buenos tardes... The 2.1 Tour of San Luis was a reasonably successful tour for Drapac Professional Cycling Team. We were immediately at a slight disadvantage being the only team starting with five riders instead of the allowed six, and…

29th January 2016

Nationals 2016

If anybody had a script for how they thought nationals was going to unfold last Sunday, I think its fair to say that the majority of people would have been far off the mark!

17th January 2016

Drapac Training Camp

While most people celebrate Christmas on the 25th of December, my Christmas started on the 8th of Decmber with the Drapac training camp. It's the only time of year when the entire team will be together, new equipment is distributed,…

28th December 2015

Tour of Bright 2015

This years Tour of Bright was a little bit of a roller coaster. After posting a solid ITT and putting a little bit of a buffer into my climbing rivals, I was feeling confident starting stage 2 and felt like…

10th December 2015

Eildon Road Race

Including two pondage loops and two loops of skyline road, the 133km Eildon Road Race turned out to be a fantastic race that was decided on the Skyline Road Climb (6.5km @ 5% average gradient). It was great to get…

4th November 2015

Abu Dhabi Tour

Wow. What a week it has been! Racing in the Abu Dhabi Tour with Drapac Cycling has simply been an unreal experience. With 10 world tour professional teams and the rest made up of Professional-Continental teams, the start list filled…

14th October 2015

Amy’s Gran Fondo 2015

You may have noticed I haven't done a blog post talking about the USA Pro Challenge. There's two main reasons for this: Firstly, I wrote a little article for strava, so you can read a little bit about it here.…

19th September 2015