Hi Everyone,

A Big week for Mitch this week with a good win on our new local course which was enthusiastically raced by 32 other participants ( see Bruce’s report below) and a great win in the State Mountain Bike Championships (see Fiona’s report below). Well done!!

As I write Tim Ross is forging ahead with 7Peaks7days. Day one saw Bruce and Tim battle snow on Mt Baw Baw with Bruce sustaining an unfortunate hip injury in the slush. He’s hoping to be up and pedalling tomorrow. I joined Tim on Lake Mountain for a leisurely 120km yesterday and he went on to ride over 200km with Mansfield to Buller to Whitfield today. A few more of us will be joining them in Bright for a trip to Omeo and back.

Road Racing

MMBCC race report

For Bruce’s in depth report, and to find out what Dick did this time – CLICK HERE.

Mountain Biking

The 2012 State XC Championship was held on Sunday 18^th November at the Mt Avoca Winery

Mitch placed 1^st in the Under 17 Men’s category – winning the State Champion title

Kian placed 3^rd in the Under 15 Men’s category – in his first race at a State Championship

So as you can see both boys did extremely well and represented their club tremendously!

The club now has a State XC Champion and a State XC podium place getter amongst their junior members

This is terrific considering the MTB side has only been going for a few years!

And as far as I can see the MTB juniors are only going to get better as times goes on with the depth of membership the club has.

Many thanks, Fiona Greenway

For the latest Mountain Biking report – CLICK HERE.

Social / Other

Women's Wednesday ride and part of Specialized Bicycles Women’s ride month the ladies went for a no drop mountain bike ride at the local bike park followed by drinks and nibbles a The Deck. This is the first of many Wednesday evening social rides throughout the coming summer months. NEXT RIDE Wednesday 28^th of November. Meet at ATC 6pm and finish off at the DECK ON HIGH for drinks. Call Tina for more info and a great deal on bike hire for the night thanks to ATC! 0414718163

GRACEBROOK SOCIAL RIDE “postponed” until next Sunday 25^th of November. Sorry didn’t realize La Dolca Vita was on this weekend  Meet at GRACEBROOK winery 10.30am or Mansfield car park (toilets) at 8am for those wanting to puff it out a little more. Lunch at GRACEBROOK (the best winery around) Enjoy! Phone Di Condi to confirm please.

Have a great weekend all!

Cheers Tina

Cheers,

John
www.mmbcc.org.au

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