THE 12th round of the Footscray Cycling Club’s winter road season saw riders assemble at the Granite Road hills at Staughtonvale in conditions that could only be described as unusual for the area.
With barely a breath of wind and dry, moderate conditions, the A-grade riders set off to complete three laps of the Balliang loop before climbing the Granite Road hills, completing a hotdog turn and heading for one more lap of the loop before crossing the finish line.
Jason Costin, 34, had a change of luck after having the second-worst week of any Altona resident [barring a certain politician], crashing his main race bike and snapping it in two earlier this week.
“We all rode reasonably honest for the first three laps, Miles DaCosta on the front as usual,” Costin said.
“After Miles, Leigh Kelly and I put in a few hard efforts in the hills, we managed to get a break on the rest, and we just rolled smooth turns until the sprint finish where I just prayed that the bike I cobbled together didn’t fall apart.”
Costin would take the sprint from DaCosta in second and Kelly in third.
