News Shorts - 24 August

BiciSport Terrey Hills TTT training @ 23 Aug - Five BiciSport teams lined up for a chilly start to TTT training from Miramare Gardens at Terrey Hills. The next team training session is 20 September. Thank you to Miramare Gardens for a great venue.
Recovery Ward - Been a poor few weeks for rider injuries with Frank Signor (ribs), and now Jock Young (shoulder) plus 83 year old Noel Larose (ribs) after an off on the Homebush bike lanes near Parramatta River. Best wishes to Jock & Noel

For 2020 the NSW Masters Road Championships head for Singleton with the Individual Time Trial on the Friday, the Road Races on the Saturday (around the well known Team Time Trial course) and Criteriums on a new circuit at Broke (near Pokolbin).
The revised date is 9-11 October in Singleton
BiciSport will reimburse all Masters entry fees and contribute $100 per rider towards accommodation costs. For further details please contact Mike O’Reilly on 0417 403 244

The smaller club events have quietly restarted (at Heffron Park, Southern Highlands, Lansdowne Park, Eastern Creek, Penrith, Parramatta & West Head) but the larger promotions and cyclosportives remain in the Covid hurt box. It would be fair to say that mass participation events (with more than 500 starters) have a real problem at present.

Note that bigger events continue to be cancelled as promoters feel the financial pain of complying with the ever changing Covid 19 climate coupled with border restrictions that again can change at a moments notice.
You know things are tough when the Herald Sun Tour is due February 21 and cancels in August 20.
Recent cancellations include -
- Aug 29 - Cootamundra Open.
- Sept 12 - Gunnedah Weekend (CycNSW)
- Oct 5 - Gears & Beers Cyclosportive (Wagga)
- Oct 8-9 - Tour of Gippsland (NRS)
- Oct 10 - World Masters Track Championships (Manchester, UK)
- Oct 11 - Around the Bay in a Day (Melbourne, Vic)
  - Oct 11 - Spring Cycle (NSW) - decision pending
- Oct 16 - Womens High Country Challenge (Bright, Vic)
- Oct 18 - Bowral Classic (NSW)
- Oct 25 - Fitzs Challenge Cyclosportive (Canberra, ACT)
- Oct 25 - Ride Daylesford (Regional Vic)
- Nov 1 - MS Gong Ride (NSW)
- Nov 8 - Mt Baw Baw Classic (Warragul, Vic)
  - Nov 8 - Amy Gillett Gran Fondo (Vic) - decision pending Aug 31
- Nov 15 - Bass Coast Classic (Inverloch, Vic)
- Nov 21 - Giro Della Donna (Warburton, Vic)
- Nov 28 - L’Etape (Nowra)
  - Nov 28 - Great Victorian Bike Ride (Vic) - decision pending
- Dec 3-5 - Tour of Bright (Vic)
- Feb 3-7 - Herald Sun Tour (Vic)

25 & 27 August - Waratah Peloton @ pass the corner of Yulong Ave & McCarrs Creek Rd Terrey Hills @ 8.05am for Akuna Bay, top of McCarrs Creek Rd climb at 8.40am, then direction Duffys Forest, then return Terrey Hills shops @ 9.15am then to St Ives for coffee
26 Aug - Wise Monkey Cafe Gruppetto @ Berowra Railway Station @ 7.30am for 60k to Calga & return
27 Aug - Happy Wheels Waterloo Ride @ 6.00am @ Happy Wheels bike shop at Waterloo. Spruce Goose Ride Ride @ Centennial Park @ 10.30am @ Spruce Goose Cafe
29 Aug - BiciSport Coffee at Miramare Sandstone Cafe (enter off Myoora Rd) @ 9.30am