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A Big Thank You
After a week of torrential rain, flooding and power failures and following a dreadful night with high winds and heavy rain we were indeed blessed to have almost perfect riding conditions for our ninth annual Ipswich 100. The final figures indicate 33 cyclists chose the 10km family ride, 179 the 50km route and 749 the 100km course. Thank you to the thousand cyclists who took a chance and turned up on the day. You made all the time and effort that goes into this event worthwhile. Your positive comments after the ride were really appreciated. Being a new venue there are some lessons to be learned and I can guarantee next year's event will be better and certainly bigger than ever. We shall probably hold the 2010 Ipswich 100 once again the Sunday before Easter, i.e. Sunday 28th March.
The 10th annual Ipswich 100 will coincide with be Ipswich 150 year celebrations. We have been tossing around the idea of a 150 km ride in honour of this event. This will obviously involve a lot more planning and resources and will only go ahead if we can satisfy ourselves that there will be a demand. We are also looking at developing commemorative merchandise in the form of jerseys, nicks, caps etc. Once again we would like your input. Could I invite you please to indicate your interest in this and other things by completing the survey to follow this letter.
On your behalf I would like to thank the dedicated members of our planning committee from the Moggill-Mt Crosby Lions Club, our hard-working Lions Ladies, the Leos from Kenmore State High School who arranged the sausage sizzle, our contributing Lions Clubs at Rosewood and Harrisville for manning the various outposts and drink stations and particularly our major sponsors, Ipswich City Council , The Haggarty Centre, Blue Ribbon Motors and St Andrews Hospital. A special thanks to Peter Kedwell from Pershouse Products, Brisbane Markets who supplied the bananas and Felicity Robson from The Harvest Company who donated the beautiful seedless watermelons. We had excellent cooperation from the University of Queensland, Ipswich Campus and are truly grateful they allowed us to use their beautiful grounds and facilities as our major venue. I'm sure you will agree that it represents a major improvement on previous years. Last but certainly not least, a huge thank you to Tom Yates, Laurelle, Ashton and Wendy from the Ipswich Hospital Foundation for the untiring support they gave with our website and with the registrations, both online and on the day. We could not have been as successful without them. We should have all our ride photos posted on the Ipswich 100 website within the next few days.
Cheers for now
Safe Cycling
Bob Mcgregor, Ipswich 100 Convenor
Moggill Mount Crosby Lions Club
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