U19 Women's Road Race - Text Updates
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Text Updates:
This morning we have the U19 Women's Road race kicking off! It's a beautiful sunny Saturday morning over here and looking like a great day for racing- 73km of road racing ahead!
Text updates will appear in the latest order
| Time | Event |
| 10:02am | Sprint finish for our 3 chasers- results to come! |
| 10:02am | Finella, Eliana and Ava coming up- Kirsty watts has crossed the finish line |
| 10:01am | 3 chasers coming into the 1km mark to go |
| 10am | 1km to go for Kirsty Watts- leading by 23 seconds |
| 9:57am | 23 second time gap |
| 9:56am | 3km to go! |
| 9:54am | Time gap of 25 seconds |
| 9:53am | 5km to go mark |
| 9:52am | Kirsty pushing on the pedals up the hill- trying to maintain the gap! |
| 9:49am | Lead rider Kirsty watts is starting to head off up the climb |
| 9:47am | heading towards the climb for one last time- time gap of 32 seconds lead by Kirsty |
| 9:43am | Women coming in with 10km to go- Kirsty Watts holding out at the front |
| 9:42am | Gap has gone out by 25 seconds |
| 9:39am | Time gap now at 24 seconds |
| 9:37am | Time gap of now 20 second- Kirsty still taking the lead |
| 9:34am | Time gap of 17 seconds between Kirsty Watts and our 3 chasers |
| 9:31am | Time gap of 15 seconds |
| 9:26am | Finella leading at the front and pushing the pace along |
| 9:22am | Second lap completed by our riders- one more to go- a quicker lap on the second time round, 39.30 |
| 9:18am | 3km to go till we approach the finish line for lap 3. Kirsty Watts out solo by about 50 meters from 3 riders Eliana, Finella and Ava |
| 9:14am | Over the top of the climb- lead 5 riders starting to put the pressure on- 225, 252 coming up close behind them- passing through the feed zone |
| 9:12am | Riders about 50m from the top of the climb |
| Group gradually starting to stretch | |
| 9:10am | Riders getting ready to head up the hill for the second time |
| 8:59am | 7 riders still ticking along in the peloton- riding around 40 km p/h |
| 8:56am | Peloton of 7 still sticking together |
| 8:51am | Fog is starting to lift on the course for our riders |
| 8:49am | Riders pacing along about 50 km p/h- all riders rolling through nicely |
| 8:42am | Riders approach to complete first lap of three. 7 riders of the peloton in a tight bunch, 4 from back magic still up at the front of the peloton |
| 8:39am | Peloton are coming up 1 km to finishing the first lap of the course |
| 8:37am | Peloton of 7 well dominated by Black Magic |
| 8:36am | 2 riders slightly dropped from the peloton- 7 riders still in a tight bunch. 21km covered of the race so far, last 3km of lap one to go |
| 8:29am | Coming into the steepest part of the climb- riders still altogether |
| 8:28am | Turning into the start of the climb! Peloton still altogether |
| 8:26am | Riders are starting approach the first climb/hill of the race |
| 8:23am | 15km into the race of 73.5km- peloton is still together, working at a nice tempo and rolling through- no wind on the course so far |
| 8:11am | Peloton still riding together in a bunch |
| 8:05am | Peloton are sitting around 40-42 km p/h |
| 8:02am | Cold start with 11 degrees racing conditions for our riders! but a nice steady start into the rice. The peloton of 9 are working well together |
| 8:00am | The U19 Women's road race has started and they are off! |
Results:
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