Northern Vets Cycling Club

🏁 LONGFORD - BRACKNELL 45km GMS RESULTS AND PHOTOS 📸

☀️ We’ve had a great run weather wise so far this season. After all the rain we’ve had in the last fortnight, today the clouds broke and we had glorious sunny conditions.

👏🏼 👏🏼👏🏼Thanks to all of the riders today. What a great turnout! It was nice to see a few riders back racing too, and moving well after some time away.

🗒️ We had 4 grades today B, C, D and E, with Leigh Pridmore riding in E grade with a 6 minute handicap over the rest of the bunch. B grade was a bit of a mixed bag and in hindsight we probably could have ran a combined A/B but the guys still had a good hit out.

In B grade, Ian Hodgins got the better of Jimmy Nevin at the line after the pair spent the majority of the race on the front. In 3rd place was Daz Turner who finished a minute or so behind.

In C, Nick Clark showed that he’s in good form ahead of next weekends Devils Cardigan with a strong sprint to take the win ahead of Andy Wells and Gene Finn.

In D grade there was a decisive move on the second ascent of Bracknell Lane, which saw Stewart Williams sprint to the win from a small group, ahead of Rod Johnno and Kathryn Woolston.

In E grade, a similarly decisive attack on Bracknell Lane by Craig Burrows allowed a group of 3 to go clear and in the run in to the finish it was Tim Burford who opened up the sprint and led it to the line, finishing in first place ahead of Peter Dadson and Craig Burrows.

💪🏼 Special mention to Leigh Pridmore who rode up a grade today and managed to stay with the bunch until the split and crossed the line with the tail end of the group.

🤝🏼 Good work by all of the race day team including Peter Dadson, Ricky Allen, Gerry Fraser, and Jareth Anderson.

📸 Thanks to Brooke Lendvay, Martin Simpson and Melissa Snadden for today’s photos

🏆 RESULTS
B Grade
Iain Hodgins 🥇
James Nevin 🥈
Darren Turner 🥉

C Grade
Nicholas Clark 🥇
Andy wells 🥈
Gene Finn 🥉

D Grade
Stewart Williams🥇
Rod Johno 🥈
Kathryn Woolston 🥉

E Grade
Tim Burford 🥇
Peter Dadson 🥈
Craig Burrows 🥉

The last race before the winter break is at Selbourne in 2 weeks’ time. It was such a nice day today we decided that we should get the BBQ out and put on some drinks immediately after the last race. Please get your entry in and don’t miss out 🔥

📲 https://entryboss.cc/races/31026

⚠️ Entries close at 2pm for tomorrow’s race at Longford.

It doesn’t look like anyone will be riding outside today but the weather is looking better for tomorrow and we have good entries so come along and take part.

📲 Enter for tomorrows race here:
https://entryboss.cc/races/31023

⏭️ Tomorrow’s race is followed in 2 weeks time by the last race before the winter break, at Selbourne on Sunday 28 June.

📲 Entries for Selbourne are open now:
https://entryboss.cc/races/31026

The first race back after the winter break is on Sunday the 2nd of August. Please have a look at the roster and lock in some races in the second half of the season.

You can find the roster here:
📆 https://www.northernvetscc.com.au/roster/

🚲 The ride out for Longford leaves Prospect at 9am from the Country Club Avenue roundabout. We are nice and close to home tomorrow so the ride out will only take 35 minutes.

Remember your seat post number

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📣 ENTRIES OPEN FOR LONGFORD-BRACKNELL GMS SUNDAY 14 JUNE

With just 2 races left till the winter break, it’s time to get your entry in for for this weekends race at Longford.

This Sunday we meet and Longford village green and following the race brief we will roll around to the intersection of Illawarra Road and Bishopsbourne Road for the start at 10am.

The course takes us along Bishopsbourne Road and left on the Liffey Road followed by a Right into Pitt’s Lane and left on Oaks Road and into Bracknell. In Bracknell, we turn left on the Main Street and follow the road out of town and left onto Liffey Road. At Pitt’s Lane we turn left and complete another loop of the Pitt’s Lane, Oaks Road , Bracknell circuit and race back to the start/finish.

You can find the course map at the link below. If you have any doubts about the course, please download it and install it on your bike computer.

🗺️ https://ridewithgps.com/routes/43697911

If you came along to Sawpit Hill Gravel but you haven’t been to a regular NVCC race, please come along. It’s great training and the ideal preparation for other events you might have on your calendar.

Enter via the link below. Don’t forget your seat post number. See you Sunday!

📲 https://entryboss.cc/races/31023

🚨 First aid trained volunteer swap needed for this weekend’s race at Longford

Brenden Paul Simpson-Kitt is rostered for the tail car this weekend but since he has only been back on his bike for a few weeks following a nasty crash at the Gilmore Criterium, we are looking for someone to swap with him for ankther race after the winter break.

Please let us know in comments below if you can swap 🤝🏼

Roster:

NVCC Road Roster – 2026 – Northern Vets Cycling Club NVCC Road Roster – 2026 Wet Weather Cancellations: If the weather is looking unfavourable, updates will be provided the day before and on the morning of the race. If racing is cancelled due to adverse weather conditions, you will receive an SMS at 7.00am on the mobile number registered with EntryB...

📸 Check out all the photos from yesterday’s MyRide Launceston Sawpit Hill Gravel.

More finish line photos in comments below 👇🏼

Pre-race photography: Melissa Snadden
Race photography: Brooke Lendvay
Finish line photography: Kaine Arkley

AusCycling - TAS Clubs and Community
Launceston City Cycling Club
Hobart Wheelers / Dirt Devils Cycling Club
Mersey Valley Devonport Cycling Club
City of Burnie Cycling Club
Cradle Coast Cycling Club (CCCC)
Launceston Mountain Bike Club
Mersey Mountain Bike Club

🏆 MYRIDE LAUNCESTON SAWPIT HILL GRAVEL REPORT & RESULTS

We had a great mix of racing today with something for everyone across all grades, from the winner in A grade crossing the line in 1:22:45, all the way through the field to the last rider finishing in just under 3 hours.

The gravel course was super smooth and running well after some overnight rain. The course was dry by 10am and the field rolled out for the mass start behind the lead car.

With 50km to go, racing got underway and the attacks started from kilometre zero with Caleb McKenzie leading a group of A and B grade riders away from the rest of the field.

By 42km to go, the front of the race had come back together but it wasn’t long before Tom Cheesman and Alex Lack attacked off the front and extended their lead up over the Bryant’s Lane climb and down the long descent into Deddington.

Through Deddington, McKenzie moved clear of the chase group to bridge across to the front two. After a solid effort on the smooth gravel sector between Deddington and Patterdale he made the junction with Cheesman and Lack at the Paterdale intersection.

With 29km to the finish, the gap to the chasing group of 12 riders was around 500 metres and continuing to grow. The decisive move though, came with 26km to go on the first significant climb of the day, when the pressure from Cheesman saw McKenzie go backwards, followed soon after by Lack.

By the top of the climb Cheeseman was on his own and looked to be building an unassailable lead as he turned onto Sawpit Hill Road with 20km to go. He continued to extend his lead down the high speed Sawpit descent and on the final stretch along Logan Road.

It was a solid ride by Cheesman at the front of the race, pushing all the way to the line for a deserved win, finishing 3:13 ahead of McKenzie in 2nd and Lack in 3rd on the same time.

There were some really standout performances today, from first time participants, mates who came to race together, and established racers.

All of the placings, finish times, grade, age and gender based results are available now at myRaceResult by clicking on the link below 👇🏼
https://my.raceresult.com/403115/results

🏆 RESULTS

Fastest Time
Open Male: Tom Cheesman 🏅
Open Female: Alana Forster 🏅
U17 Male: Archie Martin 🏅
U17 Female: N/A

A Grade
Tom Cheesman 🥇
Caleb McKenzie 🥈
Alex Lack 🥉

B Grade
Harrison Tait 🥇
Marlon von Moger 🥈
Angus Paynter 🥉

C Grade
Andrew Poynter 🥇
Alana Forster 🥈
Andy Wells 🥉

D Grade
Archie Martin 🥇
Stuart Keep 🥈
Stewart Williams 🥉

E Grade
Paul Guest 🥇
Stewart Williams 🥈
Kathryn Woolston 🥉

F Grade
Amelia Barwick 🥇
Pete Smith 🥈
Leigh Heather 🥉

Thanks to Chief Commisaire Riley McGovern, Race Director and Lead Car Martin Simpson, Tail/Medical Car Daz Turner, Race Set-up Kaine Arkley (and Belinda - thank you for the food!), Marshals and Volunteers Leigh Pridmore, James Nevin and Laurie McKeon, and last but not least Brooke Ledvay and Luke Moore who were out on the couse taking photos for us today.

We hope everyone enjoyed MyRide Launceston Sawpit Hill Gravel. We're looking forward running more open races and gravel races in future.

As always, we have tons of photos and video to share and will post some more tomorrow 📸

AusCycling - TAS Clubs and Community
Launceston City Cycling Club
Hobart Wheelers / Dirt Devils Cycling Club
Mersey Valley Devonport Cycling Club
City of Burnie Cycling Club
Cradle Coast Cycling Club (CCCC)
Launceston Mountain Bike Club
Mersey Mountain Bike Club

💥 We had some great racing today at MyRide Launceston Sawpit Hill Gravel

So many new faces from all over the state and everyone completed the course safely. We really appreciate you making the journey to come racing.

A big thank you to everyone who took part, club volunteers, event sponsor Ben at My Ride Launceston, and Launceston City Cycling Club who very kindly allowed us to borrow their seat post number transponders while we wait for another order to arrive.

As soon as we have pulled together all of the photos and videos from out on the course, the finish line and presentations we will get the report and results up.

Well done today everyone involved 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

AusCycling - TAS Clubs and Community
Hobart Wheelers / Dirt Devils Cycling Club
Mersey Valley Devonport Cycling Club
City of Burnie Cycling Club
Cradle Coast Cycling Club (CCCC)
Mersey Mountain Bike Club
Launceston Mountain Bike Club