Hi everyone for another busy and news-filled week … so firstly a reminder that Yunca Junior Tour entries close this Friday 20 September, with the ILT Junior Track Carnival entries closing on 30 September. So if you haven’t yet done so, get onlinewww.cyclingsouth.org.nz and register now!

Reports of calmer conditions at Browns on Saturday raised hopes that we might stay dry for the road race ... however, these hopes soon dissolved (into the driving wind!) when the hardy souls arrived in Browns to the same rain, hail and wind as town was experiencing.

H & J Smith Benchmark team mates are expected to go on the hunt for strong finishes at the fifth round of the Benchmark Homes Elite Cycling Series, the McKenzie & Willis Classic when it is raced near Queenstown on Saturday after spending much of the series racing overseas.