Elite Qld State Champs

The Elite race was the following Sunday after the Masters race, and Condy backed up from his win to support the team. The weather was perfect and the team was ready for the 150km championship race.

The team were well prepared and marked the early moves. The first break was a solo effort from Tinelli racing, who gained a 4:30min lead. The team worked with others to bring this back, and after 3 laps the break was caught and the real racing began.

Matt was very active and at the halfway point the race split over the big climb of the day, with Matt in the front group. The chasers caught back on after 5km and more moves started to go up the road, with Matt being present in each group that formed. Meanwhile Callum, Tom and Condy waited in the wings patrolling the chasers. Despite Matt's efforts, the group was always brought back and with 30km to go it was evident nothing was going to get away. Callum and Tom set a great tempo to bring back some small breaks in the hope Condy had his sprinting legs back after his win on Saturday.

With 15km to go a small crash split the bunch, with Matt and Condy having to chase back to the front group, after which the steady tempo brought the group into the finale. The last 5km were spent at a high pace, with Tom and Callum pushing the tempo. With 700m to go Matt attacked but couldn't get away. Condy waited for the sprint and got boxed in and managed to get 5th. Not bad after his earlier win.