With the criterium today a separate race from the Tour, which finished yesterday, the boys wanted to finish the week with a strong team ride. In sunny conditions with a blustery northerly the crowds were out in central Wellington to enjoy the spectacle and speed of criterium racing which was being raced over 60 minutes plus 3 laps.
The first 20 minutes of the race saw lots of skirmishes and sorties off the front but no real breakaways although it did see the start of the attrition of tired ri...
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Archive for January, 2011
PureBlack Racing finishes the Tour with massive win
Trust House Cycle Classic – Stage 4
29 January 2011
PureBlack Racing finishes the Tour with a massive win in the Team Classification and James Williamson in 3rd on GC
Day 4 of the tour was the last day of the UCI race with 8 laps of the 15km Wallaceville Hill circuit with a couple of challenging hill climbs and a very tricky descent to test the riders. We started the day knowing that we had already captured the Teams Classification and with James Williamson in 3rd on GC only 53 seconds b...
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James Williamson and PureBlack Racing grab some time back on the Yellow Jersey
Trust House Cycle Classic – Stage 3
28 January 2011
James Williamson and PureBlack Racing grab some time back on the Yellow Jersey
Today was the longest stage of the tour with 162km of rolling Waiarapa countryside, the perfect backdrop for a stage of fast and aggressive riding from riders looking to put themselves back in the frame to win the overall GC for the Tour.
PureBlack Racing was straight to the front at the start of the race setting the early tone with attack after attack of ...
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PureBlack Racing well placed as the Tour reaches the halfway point
Trust House Cycle Classic – Stage 2
27 January 2011
PureBlack Racing well placed as the Tourreaches the halfway point
Today was always going to be a testing day for PureBlack Racing as it set out to defend the yellow jersey on the hilliest day of the Tour finishing with the climb up Admirals Hill. “Without a pure climber on the team for this event it was always going to be about limiting our losses today” said Carl Williams, Sporting Director.
The race started with a frantic pace ...
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