Cheers and safe riding.
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( 0 / 0 )Have spent about 45 minutes talking to Simon Clarke on facebook. It was very good of Simon to give me so much of his time. Most days these men are very busy and they don't have a lot of time to chat in lengthy conservations.
Tomorrow Simon has the Milan San Remo over 298 k's, a long way, a long way in a car for that matter. The day is going to be wet from what he tells me, which won't be very comfortable. Not that comfort would be a word most Pro's would know of given the tough year so far in Europe, with weather. A field of about 200 top riders and over that hard terrain would be a very tough race to finish, even for riders at that level of class.
Simon lives only 20 minutes from the team Hotel and then 20 minutes to the start line, so at least he does not have to travel to far.
If you want to see the terrain, course and side view of landscape then Google Milan San Remo 2010, its really good viewing. You could actually print it out and follow the race if your looking for something to do.
Anyway speak more later and all the best to Simon.
Ride safely in the morning and don't put yourselves at risk. It's not worth it, no prizes.
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( 0 / 0 )If you go into Cyclesport Vic pull up Calander and scroll to results, you see this morning's session results at the Junior Nationals.
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( 0 / 0 )Simon has written 300K's on Saturday (M-SR) with the fastest guys in the World. Hold onto your hats!!!
He's doing real well and great to see Simon racing well with the top pros.
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( 0 / 0 )Looking at the Tour de France 1962 on U Tube you see riders drinking wine in hot weather. You can imagine if these guys were taking pain killers etc what a mix they would have been.
Actually recently I was talking to Hilton about drinking fluid in road races, how little we drank. As an Amateur my longest race was Grafton to Inverell which back then was 142 Miles. In that race I started with one small bidon which was replaced up over the Gibraltar range by a second small bidon. That day in September 1967 the temperature got to around 25 degrees.
In the Geelong Hundred (100miles) we carried one small bidon with no change over at all. Hilton tells me he rode the Warnambool on one small bidon on a warm day.
Really speaking so little was known back then not only at our local Amateur level but even the pros in Europe were not doing much different.
When you look back 40 odd years so much has changed for the better.
Safe riding.
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