LOTS and lots and lots of competitors.

And an evening dominated by our female competitors.

Congratulations to Miranda Farrall on her first win at her second race.

Winners are grinners.

In second place Arial Stava and third was Serena (soon to be) Vivash.

Dan Friday snuck into fourth… great to see you back Dan.

Fifth was Bruce Halket.

Bruce was also the fastest on the night knocking off the race at a very respectable 19.6 kilometre per hour average speed.

Congratulations Bruce, without question one of the clubs most dedicated and deserving competitors.

Thanks to our timekeepers on the night Jason Parker and Nicole Hoebergen.

The next XC race night will be the week after Melbourne Cup Day Tuesday November 12th.

And I’ve had an idea.

It is a bit of a process preparing for the XC race nights.

A course has to be decided upon and then it needs to be mapped on STRAVA to get the distance in order to sort out the handicaps.

So, for the rest of the season, on the Sunday morning before the XC races I will be at Rifle Butts at 9am to do this reconnaissance.

Please feel free to join me for the ride, have some input into the race lap for the coming race and even the race format.

Also learn the lap for the race (a very useful advantage).

Feel free to ask me for some coaching tips.

Even if I don’t know, I will always have an opinion.

But seriously I am a qualified coach.

I look forward to seeing you there.