Peter Kirkham
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Peter Kirkham's Mt Baw Baw Classic 2008 Race Report
- By Peter Kirkham
- Published 20-Apr-08
Had a really good read of the race right camp… and the site has been very logically laid out and sounds really good. The quality of people you have going there to hold the seminars etc sound ...
Not so great week leading up to my first B grade race at Glenvale
- By Peter Kirkham
- Published 01-Apr-08
Really happy after being promoted to B Grade and looking forward to my first race the Tuesday after the Easter long weekend. I rode heaps over the long break (increased the hill training a lot) to ge...
C Grade Win! - Glenvale Crit - Sunday 16 March 2008
- By Peter Kirkham
- Published 18-Mar-08
I WON!!!! I finally won C grade, my first win ever… I was so happy. Because there was a strong headwind down the main straight I played the odds that the race would finish in a bunch sprint...
2nd Place at Glenvale
- By Peter Kirkham
- Published 17-Mar-08
I missed out on the win by literally a tyre width on Sunday so I was a bit disappointed because I hesitated when I went for the sprint at the end, wondering if it was too early and letting my own spri...
C Grade race on the Tuesday 26th of February 2008 at Sandown Raceway
- By Peter Kirkham
- Published 26-Feb-08
After
last weeks failed attempt at being a part of a successful early break away, I
focused on holding my position further back in the bunch to conserve energy this
week. It seemed to pay off w...
C Grade race on the Tuesday 24th of February 2008 at Glenvale Crescent
- By Peter Kirkham
- Published 24-Feb-08
This race looks unusually
short from the HRM details looking at it now… maybe it stopped working for a bit
during this race? Anyway, this race went pretty well… I focused on holding m...
C Grade race on the Tuesday 19th of February 2008 at Sandown Raceway
- By Peter Kirkham
- Published 19-Feb-08
This race was a killer – I felt like throwing up afterwards and I could barely drink… awesome training though. The wind at Sandown as you know is usually running straight down the main st...
C Grade Race on the Sunday 17th of February 2008 at Glenvale Crescent
- By Peter Kirkham
- Published 17-Feb-08
This race I was really proud of because I got 3rd!!! Needless to say, this race went really well. I played tactics more than normal, sat in the bunch for the majority of the race and again predicte...
C Grade race on Sunday the 10th February 2008 at Glenvale Crescent.
- By Peter Kirkham
- Published 10-Feb-08
This race was pretty standard also, although this time (for the first time) I raced with more of a strategy in mind. I made the conscious decision to play the odds which is that C grade nearly always...
C Grade race on Tuesday the 5th February 2008 at Sandown Raceway
- By Peter Kirkham
- Published 05-Feb-08
Sandown races are a bit hard for me to get to at 6.30pm… I am always in a bit of a rush, but this time the sign up desk was so full I missed the first lap (along with a bunch of others) and got ...
