After a morning of wet weather in Invercargill I decided to take all my warm & wet weather gear and head to Te Tipua for Saturday’s road race.  As we travelled out to the start the weather improved and by the time we lined up on the start line the sun was shining and the temperatures were in the mid teens.

Southland's road cycling team faces a gruelling weekend with 280 kilometres of racing. Cycling Southland's H&J Smith Outdoor World team will contest the Twizel to Timaru classic today and on Sunday the Southlanders will line up in a 128km Benchmark series race around Timaru.

Otago claimed a convincing victory in the annual interclub team time trial clash with Southland in Outram on Saturday.