Durbridge Double

Luke Durbridge will sport the Australian jersey in not one but two disciplines in Europe this year after taking out the double of Time Trial and Road Race in the National Championships which wrapped up today in Ballarat.

With a large selection of Green Edge riders represented in the peloton it was hardly any surprise they were able to manage getting one of their own across for line honours. And although it wasn't one of the more favoured picks of Gerrans or Clarke, Luke Durbridge is deserving and popular winner.

Earlier in the week Durbridge defended his Time Trial title with a blistering performance and today put in another stellar effort to take out the Elite Road Race, ultimately leading the race for all but from the word go.

Durbridge seemed to own the race, taking control of the break and putting the hammer down to whittle the break down to just himself and Bernie Sulzberger. Knowing that he would be second best should the it come down to a sprint between the two Durbo turned on the turbo (sorry, couldn't resist) to shake Sulzberger which he managed to do on the penultimate lap. It was then a matter of transforming back into time trial mode to the finish line.

As he rode into the final straight towards the finish he had time to soak in the moment and savour the cheers from the huge crowd who had turned out in droves to support the race.

Durbridge will proudly wear both the national time trial and road champion jerseys in Europe this year and hopefully they will inspire him to a great year ahead.

Congrats Durbo! Any congrats to Buninyong and Ballarat for again putting on a fantastic championships!

Changes to National Road Championships

Not much time to blog at the moment with moving house, busy concert time in dance wear shop and I'm doing a writing challenge at the moment!

But I did want to link with some news of exciting changes to the Road National Championships course coming up in January in Ballarat/Bunninyong.

We've been attending the Nationals since being held at Ballarat and it's always a great race, but with the men's road race there has always been the comments of it being too swayed towards the climbers. However, it seems someone somewhere is listening with some great amendments to the course.

You can read all about the changes over here at Cycling Central.

What do you think? Do you like the sound of the changes?