Other Sporting Goals

After a believably underwhelming winter Olympic campaign from the Australians, Team QUON have realised their true calling lies in winter sports. Given the lack lustre performance and generally low attendance rates from Australian Athletes across the Sochi games, Team QUON have decided to step up and fill the places & medal tally in the up coming 2018 South Korean games. You heard it here first.

Team QUON's first pre Winter Olympic outing will be Mt Hotham Pub 2 Pub x-country ski race. This will be a selection race for cross country skiing and biathlon. Uncle Stompy will host the shooting component of the biathlon try outs separately.

ACTAB is currently taking bets on the Hotham pub 2 pub. Odds are as Follows:

Confirmed Starters

Randywick:   $1.50                  - His big mouth/lungs may in fact come in handy for this notoriously   gruelling sport. He also does crossfit, so much functional fitness.

AB:                $2.00                  - Ring in, but previous skiing experience the QUON's own telemarking champion Br Brutus will serve him well.

Br Mary:        $5.00                 - "Thomo can do it so it cant be that hard". This attitude ensures the big man will win the 1km  prime. Snot bubbles and mushroom clouds likely at the 1.2km mark.

Smup:            $10.00               - Smups long limbs, proven sporting ability & prowess, roller skiing experience and copious amounts of free time to train for the event will all prove more hindrance than help.

Piece Of        $1.50                 - Piece Of is "KEEN". He is currently paying $1.50 for a DNS and will be pulling odds of around 50:1 to start and 100:1 to get the win.

NON Confirmed starters

Br Brutus:      $5.00                 - His profile pic is telemarking you know.

Baby J            $6.00                 - Currently in red hot form over the other side of the globe. Can he hold form (and be in the country) come August? Only time will tell.

The QM (That's Carl Fellows, the ginger on the cervelo, rides sporadically, has been a little long in the face lately for anyone who's confused about who this is)
                       $12.00                - On the verge of a second middle life crisis, a change in endurance sports could be just what the doctor ordered. Luckily no time will need to be spent on perfecting technique in the sport either.

The phantom  $18.00              - His pursuit of "Other Sporting Goals" in 2014 ensures that he is definitely a contender. Given that he hasn't written a poem or worked out how to use the blog could seriously limit his aspirations of actually remaining in the QUON come August.

No Balls

The QM would like to remind everyone in the QUON that the much vaunted Indoor Cricket competition will not be held tonight, as too many jelly spined wishy washy flim flams who suffer from severe commitment issues have delved into The Book of Shadows.

Anyone who wishes to watch joke sports rather than participate in them is welcome to talk to Smuppi about watching the Winter Olympics tonight instead.

You Say It's an All Weather Track

But there were no ponies on the track tonight.  Since when was crit racing cancelled because it might be raining at some stage later in the night?  What happened to the good old days when the CCC hammered the point that racing will be held regardless of rain?

Would never have happened if Skin n Bones was still on the committee!

You Had Me at Bacon

QM Ubber is to be congratulated for his successful organising of the 2014 Rod Tidwell awards.

In a typical display of high profile leadership by example and from the front, the plucky ubber ginga has locked in 21 Mar as the big date, kicking off events from 2:30pm as Smuppy drops the first GM free soy and linseed organic sausages on the barbie, followed by chicken kebabs and tonnes of bacon.

A ceremonial fish pond stacked full of live goldfish will be erected prior to the day, where it is expected all empty long necks will be cunningly stashed.

While the event program is still under wraps, QUONners can expect the plan will involve severely pissing off the neighbours with boisterous joviality followed by a Joycie hunt later in the Cit-tay.

No Dummy. No Apology.

Brother BTG explaining in his normally calm and rational manner that The Shambles (TM) is the greatest team ride that one can hope to participate in and it is incomplete without both severe personal trial and team camraderie post ride at EQ.  And if you have a problem with that, perhaps you could turn up occasionally, on a real bike, and pull a decent turn on the front once in a while.

Beauty Sleep Required

Trevor really rode himself ugly today in one of the greatest Shambles ever.