Melbourne - Warrnambool 2009

Melbourne - Warrnambool Photos

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  An elated Joel Pearson (Savings and Loans) takes out the 2009 Melbourne to Warrnambool one-day classic.

• The large bunch that formed at the front of the race around the 30km mark.
• Up-beat: Race winner Joel Pearson's (Savings and Loans) heartbeat had slowed down on the podium after it would have been banging like a drum in the sprint to the line.
• Kirsty Broun was the first lady across the line in the Melbourne to Warrnambool one-day classic.
• David Tozer won the award for being the first rider from Warrnambool across the line.
• Riders leave the Werribee racetrack at 7.30am bound for Warrnambool, 261 kilometres and around six hours away.
• Almost 200 hundred riders left the startline in Werribee bound for Warrnambool.
• Mobile musettes: Chris Steffanoni (Cycle-City) had some helpers on the run at a feed-zone in Inverleigh.
• The lead group pass some more canola fields with a 15 minute break on the peloton.
• David Pell (Savings and Loans) and Rhys Pollock (Drapac Porsche), climb their way out the back of Camperdown in the chase group.
• Podium spray (l-r): Daniel Furmston (2nd), Joel Pearson (1st), and Tim Decker (3rd) release the champers in Warrnambool.
• Snapper spray: Race winner Joel Pearson (Savings and Loans) finds a happy way to get rid of some champagne - drown a photographer!
• Joel Pearson (Savings and Loans) was the man to beat in the sprint and didn't disappoint his fans.
• The lead group had buttered-up the peloton and was milking their gap for all it was worth approaching Warrnambool.
• A Mars a day helps you ride the Melbourne to Warrnambool one-day classic.

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