Matt third at Charles Coin Memorial race

The last days of winter greeted the team for the annual Charles Coin Memorial road race held by the University Cycling Club. This race holds much tradition in the Queensland cycling calendar and is always a race the team seeks to do well in.

With perfect racing conditions and a full strength team, everything was set for the 130km road race.

With a strong and motivated team, the team knew pressure would be on them to dictate how the race would be. As such, Steve and Aidan took the race on and were very active early, which resulted in Steve getting into the big early break of the day.

For about 60km, Steve was in a break of 5 riders, who gained up 1 minute at times. This great work allowed the rest of the team to sit in the wings and wait for the catch. As the other teams slowly brought back the break, the counter moves were getting ready, which saw Matt and Aidan getting into some small breaks that didn't last. Then Steve countered again, and was away for another 20 odd kilometres in the second big break of the day.

As this break was brought back Matt again followed some big moves, which with 30km left to race, saw the winning move get away. With 5 committed riders in the break, the gaps grew out to as much as 3 minutes.

In the final 20km, Matt started attacking the group in the hope to reduce the numbers, which resulted in just 4 riders left with 10km to go. At this point, the cat and mouse started as riders played out their tactics.

Over the final climb, further big attacks began, but it was clear a 4 man sprint was to occur. Matt waited until the sprint began to try and move around, but was unable to get past the 2 stronger riders and had to settle for third place.

Well done to Correy Edmed for a good win.