Canberra for the 24hr

10/10 after an easy week of training it was time for a 24hr race as a pair with John giving me 4 weeks notice that we were racing. So into the brickman's Ute for the 8hr drive to Canberra. Troy from BMC saved us a spot as we were late getting away due to John's dad having some heart problems on the Thursday night. George told John to get out of here & go race, with the Doctors agreeing ever thing was O.K. So we arrived at 6pm & set up 100m from transition with the food area straight behind us. Giant Supplied us with a nice big 3 x 6m tent with sides & back which was our home for the next 48hrs.
Our nice new home.


8:30pm after some food, it was time to put on our nightlightning lights & we headed out for a night laps on the red lap. These lights never let us down in all the night riding & racing we do. This is a great fun lap which take 10km to climb 280m & then descends back to the pits 3.5km away. Legs felt great.
John hitting it out on the prologue, before his flat


Top of the climb on the prologue












Estimated times & messages

Ute packed for the trip home

John did the prologue & was second away. Was riding great until he flatted within 10m of catching the rider in front within 2km of the finish.

Let the 24hr begin. John started & as usual I found myself going out at the pointy end of the race for my first look at the 15.4km blue lap with 330m of climbing. This was a lot tougher lap as it was more technical & rocky with fun jumps. Glad we were on our Giant Anthems as they just ate up the rough stuff at speed. We set into our race rhythm & just started ticking the laps over.

On my third lap I managed to puncture my tyre on a rock, but thanks to running Geax Sagauro's with Pit Stop sealant, the 5mm cut sealed & I was able to keep riding. Back at the pits I just topped it up with air & it was fine for the rest of the race.

In the end after 24hrs of racing we came in second, which was a fantastic result with minor preparation. 450km of racing with 9430m of climbing between us. Thanks to Craig at Bicycle Inc & Giant for supplying me with such a sweet ride & to nightlightning for letting us see so well in the dark.

Are we ready for our next 24hr in 7 weeks time? you bet ya!!

Lap 31 Time 51:05 Speed 15.62 Jeff Williams

30 50:45 17.97 John Claxton

29 44:24 17.97 Jeff Williams

28 51:17 17.78 John Claxton

27 42:09 18.93 Jeff Williams

26 49:16 18.51 John Claxton

25 43:51 18.20 Jeff Williams

24 52:21 17.42 Jeff Williams

23 44:00 18.14 John Claxton

22 52:07 17.50 John Claxton

21 46:07 17.30 Jeff Williams

20 51:43 17.63 John Claxton

19 43:51 18.20 John Claxton

18 56:19 16.19 Jeff Williams

17 44:28 17.95 John Claxton

16 55:28 16.44 Jeff Williams

15 46:46 17.06 John Claxton

14 53:46 16.96 Jeff Williams

13 45:01 17.73 Jeff Williams

12 52:24 17.40 John Claxton

11 42:09 18.93 Jeff Williams

10 49:09 18.56 John Claxton

9 40:41 19.61 Jeff Williams

8 47:49 19.07 John Claxton

7 41:08 19.40 John Claxton

6 48:07 18.95 Jeff Williams

5 38:15 20.86 John Claxton

4 46:44 19.51 Jeff Williams

3 38:11 20.90 John Claxton

2 45:11 20.18 Jeff Williams

1 35:54 22.23 John Claxton

Also Congratulations to Mitch Docker for signing for the next session with Skil-Shimano, He may be back to do some training with us after the Herald Sun Tour.