Story of my ride: Wollongong cycling world championship preview (pt3): "City Circuit", Mt Pleasant
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- The 17.1km ‘City Circuit’ of the 2022 UCI Road World Championships features 12 times* in the elite men's road race, and six times in the elite women's road race. There are other the aspects of the race route for these final events of #Wollongong2022, but this loop makes up the finale of the championships.
In this long video, I offer my observations of the route, the roads - the surface, widths and gradient - and the directions taken on a circuit which includes only 250 metres of elevation gain (predominantly in a two-kilometre section in the suburb of Mt Pleasant.
This is the story of my ride on Wednesday 17 August 2022.
- Rob
*NOTE: In the video (and in the original version of this article) it is incorrectly stated that the elite men do 16 laps of the City Circuit.
The final race includes 12 laps. Please excuse this error.
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Details of this ride on Strava:
www.strava.com/activities/7650135048?
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Preview episodes (Wollongong 2022 route preview)
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• Worlds preview (part 2), Mount Keira: • Story of my ride: Woll...
We acknowledge and pay our respect to the traditional custodians of the lands and waters of NSW, to the elders - past, present and emerging.
This film was recorded in Dharawal Country.
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For more, see the Story Of My Ride playlist:
• Story of my ride
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Music:
• Near The End by Anthony Catacoli
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• The Adventure Begins by Lunareh
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• To See You by Alsever Lake
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Thanks, Rob, for taking us on the ride. 16 times around that will be interesting. Sometimes I forget how beautiful my city is. Also like seeing someone else breathing hard in the granny gear.
Thanks Rob. Great overview. Looking forward to seeing the racers 'rrrrramming' up Ramah and 'coasting' down Cabbage Tree. I do enjoy your vids - good work all round. Cheers
Thanks for the course reconnaissance. cheers
Spekky Rob 😍Building the excitement 🤩
Ah, is “Spekky” a good thing?
(I’m new to that word, so just checking/requesting translation.)
- Rob
(I’ll go with “Thanks” as my reply though. I’m guessing it’s a positive notion.)
@@ride-media Yes Rob 🤣 Short for spectacular, or slang for a wonderful mark in AFL footy. 😁
@@shanelewis2255 oh yeah… I knew that. (And I live in NSW!)
D’oh! Just didn’t think of the AFL link.
Did you do something similar for the world's in Geelong? It is hard to imagine that Wollongong could be as special as that day, especially with world champ Cadel Evans competing and Michael Matthews winning under 23 gold!!!!
Hi Rob - believe they only do 12 (not 16) laps of the city circuit for the men's elite.
Yep. True.
Hmmm. Maybe Caleb can cope.
Thanks for pointing that out. I had 16 in my head. Sorry about the error.
@@ride-media No worries Rob. Love these unscripted videos (and rants!), Keep them coming.
@@ride-media Don't forget the women. They do 6 laps of the city circuit.
Too steep for van aert? I reckon this suits Mathews very well
Hi Rob - great video - hope to see u in Wollongong. Have sent you a dm via IG with another event you may be interested in.