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CONTENTS

Sometimes you have to take an

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Profile. Kate Olgers of NAB

Welcome to Adelaide Rachel Neylan

If you are down here, it’s HOT, but

Greenhill Road

the forecast for raceweek is milder

Profile. Hugh Banister of Santos

Post Ride Coffee with Rachel

Profile. Bill Le Blanc of SA Health

6 Australians in 100 Years

Norton Summit Road

Montacute Road

as a Tour Down Under ‘special’, on the road in Adelaide

temperatures. For any first time riders in Adelaide - watch the hills, they all bite at some point of the climb. And if you aren’t here, hopefully

Introduction

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Magazine has been put toether

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you get to watch the race on TV.

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Every year I fall into that old tradition of making a number of ‘new year resolutions’. Meant to be more of a series of promises to myself and my family, I generally commit to focusing on living a balanced life, sharing time evenly across everything that’s important. Every year, I would look back and realise that I’d failed…….. with the exception of last year! In January 2013 I made the decision to launch a full series of events for our ACE community in Sydney. I realised that to make it happen I needed to tell E X E C U T I V E C Y C L I S T M AG A Z I N E

someone who inspired me about my resolution. This would make me directly accountable via my verbal commitment. After some brief thought about who to tell, i realised that it was not one person that inspired me but all of you. I’m not exactly sure how I came to announcing the series to the entire group and then agreeing for a calendar to be published, but it sure did the job and I have you to thank for a magical first year.

As we now look to 2014, and we make the

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commitment to grow and include our Melbourne members, I feel that I can speak from a position of experience and let you know that by sharing your goal, vision or resolution with those close to you, the chance of achieving success increases substantially. So whether pledging to ride more kilometres, enter a challenging event, improve your diet, spend more active time with the family or drive improved ebit data, be sure to think about who inspires you the most, shout the coffee and be brave enough to share your resolution. Ryan O’Neill ACE CEO

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Kate Olgers National Australia Bank Executive Profile

Kate Olgers

National Australia Bank

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years, specialising in banking &

NAB’s customer and product

finance. I learned my trade at

management functions –

Allens Arthur Robinson, including

Personal Bank, Business Bank,

13 years as a partner. I left

Wealth and Products & Markets

Allens in 2008 and, together

– together with our London, NY

with 3 colleagues, established

and Asia branch network.

Australia’s first secondment-only law firm, Advent Lawyers – now

With a large team and diverse

known as AdventBalance.

portfolio, my current role is less about lawyering and more

I joined NAB in 2010 on

about leadership, stakeholder

secondment from Advent and

management, strategy and

found myself having too much

figuring out which of the many

fun to leave! I now lead a

curve balls are glass. I have a

global team of ~ 250 lawyers,

to-do list but we live in parallel

paralegals and support staff

universes!

responsible for supporting

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General Counsel Banking, Products & Markets National Australia Bank

I’ve been a lawyer for nearly 25

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What business challenges

appetite for credit, and a tsunami

horse-riding. I flirted with surfing

do you face in 2014?

of complex and expensive

for a while - long enough to own

Common to all the banks, the

regulatory change.

2 boards but not long enough to

challenges are constraining costs

be good at it! My real sporting

without burning the furniture;

What sports have you been

loves are scuba-diving, snow-

keeping up with rapidly changing

involved with?

skiing and, of course, cycling.

consumer preferences; and

Lots. I’ve been a keen

I’m a self-confessed exercise

generating sustainable returns

participant in team sports like

junky - you’ll normally find me in

in an environment characterised

softball and hockey, and I’ve

the gym or on my bike or wind-

by intense competition, low

been in and out of love with

trainer 5 or 6 mornings p/w.

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National Australia Bank NAB will be well known to ACE’s readership – one of Australia’s 4 major banks, and the ‘people’s favourite’ thanks to our peer-leading focus on doing the right thing – more of the good, less of the bad.

When and why did you get into

Barnett from Pro-Cycling Coach,

Do you have a favourite ride/s?

cycling?

and the bunch from Cyclery

I do most of my riding on the

I started cycling in March 2011,

Northside.

hilly north side, leaving from

encouraged by my friend – and

Chatswood. 2 favourites - 4

world’s best spin-class trainer -

Describe a good week on the

Gorges if I’m feeling well-rested;

Veronica Russell. After 2 years

bike?

otherwise, Brooklyn or Mt White

sweating it out in the gym, V

2 mornings on the wind-trainer

via Bobbo.

convinced me to swap spin

and 2 on the road, totalling

classes for real riding. I learned

220km – 250km, with multiple

to ride with Veronica and Aaron

PRs on Strava and no punctures.

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friends in the wake of the Giro D’Italia or Tour de France.

I’d also like to master looking in a straight line! Like Zoolander

making time for those things and

raising efforts, and works to

can’t turn left, I’m forced to look

letting go of the rest.

raise the profile of The Big Issue

under my arm or rely on others,

and the cause of addressing

thanks to fracturing my neck in a

Tell us about your involvement

homelessness, particularly

skiing accident a couple of years

with The Big Issue – The

among women.

ago.

Women’s Subscription. I’m a member of the Advisory

Something to share with the

What bike/s do you ride?

Board to The Big Issue’s

group….a passion, something

Currently, a Specialised Roubaix

Women’s Subscription

interesting.

Expert SL3. It’s my first ‘grown-

Enterprise. The WSE was

I have a real interest in, and

up’ bike and I really enjoy it. I’ve

created to give homeless women

take great satisfaction from,

ordered a second – this time a

an avenue to help themselves,

advancing the cause of women

weapon – the Specialised Tarmac

without becoming one of the

in business. The pace of

S-Works SL4.

magazine’s street vendors –

change has been glacial. The

recognising that for many of them

representation of women in

How do you balance your

the streets are very confronting.

senior management and on

personal, professional and

It allows them to earn money

boards remains inexcusably low,

riding lives?

and build life and work skills

and the gender remuneration

It’s not easy. I have 2 wonderful

by packing the magazine for

gap continues. It’s good to see

children - Lucas and Charlotte -

distribution to subscribers, in the

the BCA and Male Champions

and work is demanding. I forfeit

safety of The Big Issue’s offices.

of Change increasing the sense

sleep, and prioritise the things

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over my shoulder whilst still riding

of urgency and holding the

that are important to me – family

The Advisory Board primarily

business community’s feet to the

and friends, work, exercise -

supports the WSE’s fund-

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Welcome to my Adelaide. Adelaide is my Aussie summer home, my cycling home and my training ground for Europe. Born and bred in Sydney the sea change at 26 years of age was a calculated decision to become a world class athlete. Adelaide was my Launchpad â&#x20AC;&#x201C; A quieter city, less expensive and a gateway to relentless traffic free terrain of the Adelaide hills, McLaren Vale and the Barossa which soon became my workplace toward European success. The Adelaide cycling community have been an incredibly important part of my development as an athlete humbly receiving support from the South Australian Institute of Sport, local produce suppliers, bike shops, gyms and of course local coffee shops! I still choose to reside here in Summer months while I prepare for Europe and remain adamant it is one of the best cycling cities in the world! www.rachelneylan.com

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Greenhill Road. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not the steepest climb in Adelaid, but it is one of the longest and hardest. Starting with a few ramps of 9-10% (the steepest part of the climb, the road soon evens out . And it is relentless - at an average 6.6% for the total climb (over 7km), it is a good test for a confident climber . It also makes for a fun descent.

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Hugh Banister

Santos

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when the oil price was $9

cycling?

per barrel. Started my career

I started cycling when I was

writing remote sensing, image

about 14. A friend of mine was

processing software and have

an enthusiast and I bought a

subsequently worked for 7

bike…. It’s been all downhill since

Oil and Gas Exploration and

then!

Production (E&P) companies, more latterly in more strategic

Describe a good week on the

roles, and am currently Chief

bike?

Information Officer (CIO) for

I cycle to work most days,

Santos

which is 22 km round trip, but helps to keep the blood thin. A

What business challenges do

group from work will usually get

you face in 2014?

out on a ride on Tuesdays and

Delivery and first gas for GLNG

Thursdays at 6:00am, usually

during 2015, focussing a growth

alternating flat and hilly. I usually

phase in exploration in mega

get out on Sunday with the

basins around Australia and

Barstardi Gruppo (BG’s for short)

SE Asia… Then running a base

and again, we alternate a flat

business which is margins

or hilly route… I coordinate and

focussed, to help fund this

participate in a couple of team

growth.

that ride the Cyclo Sportif series,

When and why did you get into

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which are a team time trial series What sports have you been

over the summer months. That’s

involved with?

usually enough to keep me out of

I have been involved in:

trouble!

Triathlons, swimming, cycling, running, adventure sports, wind

Do you have a favourite ride/s?

surfing, kite surfing and traction

I prefer the Adelaide Hills, they

kiting…

are quiet and have so many routes. Probably my favourite is the cycle up new Norton Summit, along Basket Range (Basket 37

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Santos Santos is an upstream Oil and Gas Exploration and Production (E&P) company supply hydrocarbons to Australia and SE Asia. We are the operator of GLNG, an $18B CSG to LNG project based in Queensland. We have office in the majority of cities in Australia and also Indonesia, Bangladesh, Singapore and India.

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Cases as I refer to it). Then either Deviation Road or onto Lobethal and back either via Mount Lofty or the Gorge Rd (which looks like a Play Station game E X E C U T I V E C Y C L I S T M AG A Z I N E

background!) What is a cycling ambition? To stay as fit as I can for as long as I can and remain competitive with my friends, but most of all to be out on the open road, cycling in the sunshine!!! What bike/s do you ride? I have a few bikes, my worse fear

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sell them for what I said that they were worth. These include: • Cervelo S3 the Olympic edition with Sram Red group set • Fuji that I commute into work daily • 2001 Kestral time trial bike, without a down tube, banana yellow, and the frame is a work of art, one of the first carbon framed bikes to be made!

How do you balance your

We had just bought our ‘good’

personal, professional and

bikes but were a little tired, so we

riding lives?

got off to walk. A girl on a ‘situp

With difficulty… However I find

and beg’ with a wicker basket

that incorporating exercise into

went flying past. We jumped on

ones daily routine to be the best

our bikes, but didn’t catch her

way of achieving this…

and never saw her again. From that day to this I have never

Do you have an interesting

walked up another hill with my

cycling story to tell?

bike.

Many, but probably the one that was really formative. I would have

Something to share with the

been about 14…

group….a passion, something interesting:

First one and the reason I never

Just get out and do it! But never

walk up hills, a couple of friends

be too precious about your bike,

and I had cycled to a small

you can always buy a new bike,

market town called Rye, from

but you only get one body, so

Bexhill on Sea, Sussex the UK.

look after it! Cycling’s great for

On the way home we came to

that!

a hill just outside Hastings (The Battle of Hastings and all that).

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Red Berry Espresso 1A L’Estrange St, Glenside (2km from CBD, off Greenhill Rd) redberryespresso.com.au

nominate her favourite post ride Cafe.

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Other popular cafes include: Espresso Royale • 357 Magill St. St Morris Paddy’s Lantern • 219 Gilbert St. Adelaide LaMusette, Siphon Coffee Bar • 3/15 Moseley St. Glenelg Muratti 114B • Prospect Rd. Prospect 43

Bill Le Blanc

SA Health

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Bill Le Blanc

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years in a diverse range of roles

with over 100,000 employees

for several firms. The first ten

gave me a good grounding

years were spent in technically

in management systems

oriented positions pursuing the

and controls. I spent another

dream of technical guru-ness

five years in leadership

with a US technology leader.

roles in solution design and bid management for large

After a few years consulting as

outsourcing transactions

a technical specialist working for

throughout the A/P region.

myself I developed an interest in leadership and realised I needed

Working for several large

to move back into a big company

multinational suppliers afforded

where I could learn the leadership

me the opportunity to travel,

trade. I joined another large

work and live throughout Asia,

US multinational as a services

USA, and NZ as well as doing

marketing manager covering Asia

serious time in each of Australiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

Pacific.

mainland capitals.

Five years on I jumped ship to a

I moved from the private sector

French management consulting

to state government six years

firm for a few years, leading

ago and have held a number of

engagements on ICT strategy

executive leadership roles since

and efficiency, before jumping

joining SA Health. I currently run

back into ICT with a big US

the ICT division for SA Health as

outsourcing firm.

General Manager and for the last

Working in several companies

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five months Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been juggling a second role on top of that, acting as Executive Director for eHealth.

SA Health SA Health represents the health portfolio of the South Australian state government. We run over 70 hospitals, the ambulance service, community health centres, screening services and diagnostic pathology. My division provides the ICT systems for 33,000 employees. The government spends circa $5b annually on health in South Australia. We are making significant technology investments in infrastructure and systems to underpin health system reform. E X E C U T I V E C Y C L I S T M AG A Z I N E | ISSUE 06

The health system has a lot of very smart people with competing demands for limited resources. The business runs around the clock and there is no such thing as a quiet period, even at Christmas. The complex organisational dynamics make it a very interesting place to work.

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What business challenges do

population growth. It is not a

What sports have you been

you face in 2014?

workable proposition to retain

involved with?

In short - continuing to deliver

the service delivery models of old

In my youth it was baseball and

both technology and business

and simply increase capacity, i.e.

basketball. As a young man I

reform initiatives in a financially

build more hospitals.

competed in, and taught, full

constrained environment. When the economy is flat, so is

Changing the way the health

I established the rowing club

government income.

system works is a multi-year

at our kids’ school (black-hole

South Australia’s population

journey, and with new ICT

alert for your spare time). When

demographics are such that

systems underpinning much of

I turned 40 I learned to row and

demand for health services is

this reform 2014 will be another

competed in masters rowing

increasing much faster than

big year of transformation for us.

regattas including the annual

either inflation or general 50

contact martial arts. My wife and

‘Head of the Yarra’.

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When and why did you get into

The appeal was firstly that I didn’t

Fast forward to today, the entry

cycling?

need the cooperation of eight

level bike is gone and I’m now

I have been cycling for about

others to train, and secondly

on bike number three, trying my

six years. After several years of

the workout began the second I

best to adhere to the ‘n-1’ rule

rowing, it became increasingly

left the driveway – compared to

of how many bikes one’s spouse

difficult to coordinate a crew of

an hour’s drive each way from

will allow.

nine mid-career professionals

the rowing course and, as you

to train at the same time due

all appreciate, leisure time is

to competing pressures from

precious. I became hooked and

our careers. I found that a lot of

by age 45 I was cycling more

rowers use cycling to cross-train

seriously so I dropped rowing

so I bought an entry level road

and joined a cycling group.

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Describe a good week on the

Summit and down the old

a cycling ambition as much as it

bike?

freeway. Both rides are also great

is a lifestyle ambition.

I’m not able to make the time

in the reverse direction.

available that I’d like. At the

When a flat ride beckons, like

What bike/s do you ride?

moment a good week on the

many Adelaide cyclists I’ll ride to

I still have bike #2. It’s an older

bike is a single mid-week one

the beachside suburb of Glenelg

Azzurri Forza with DuraAce

hour interval session on the

then north along the foreshore to

gruppo which I use on rollers or

trainer or rollers, with a 3-4 hour

Outer Harbour and back – a nice

the indoor trainer in my home

ride on the weekend. I think

75km round trip from home.

gym for a quick mid-week

the duration one is allowed to

workout.

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be away from the home must

What is a cycling ambition?

be some sort of corollary to the

I try to strike a balance and use

My roadie is a 2013 Colnago

n-1 rule. A second weekend

cycling to stay fit and healthy but

CX-1 Evo with SRAM Red

ride of 2-3 hours is sometimes

I’m never going to have enough

gruppo and Fulcrum Racing Zero

permitted and that tops a great

saddle time to be competitive.

wheelset. I was recently advised

week. Weekends must include

My ambition is to keep bettering

my bike is uncool but I love

climbing. No suffering, no

my own times, new PR’s every

the way it rides. When uncool

happiness.

month on Strava! So far, so

becomes the new cool I will be

good, and given there are folks

the envy of the peloton.

Do you have a favourite ride/s?

10 years my senior kicking my

We are spoiled for rides close to

butt on the climbing segments

How do you balance your

home in Adelaide. You can ride

I hold out hope there are many

personal, professional and

climbs, vineyards, and beach

years improvement ahead before

riding lives?

waterfront all in the same ride if

age gets in the way.

As an empty-nester I probably

that’s what you fancy.

have less competitive pressure A riding buddy and I make an

for family time than younger

I love climbing the hills and

annual pilgrimage to Bright in

executives but striking a balance

you’ll usually find me climbing

the Victorian high country with

between work, wife and bike

Montacute Rd through Marble

our wives to ride the climbs and

is still a challenge. Technology

Hill and over to Mt Lofty then

partake of the local food and

hasn’t given us more leisure time,

down the old freeway. Another

wine. I’d love to make a ‘tree

rather it promotes a blurring of

favourite is climbing Norton

change’ to live, work and play

boundaries between home and

Summit taking Woods Hill Rd

in the Victorian Alpine Shire so I

work. For me, time on the bike

through Ashton to Mt Lofty

guess that could be classified as

equals stress relief so, when I’m

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uptight after a challenging week and possibly unpleasant to be around I often get told ‘on yer bike’ by my wife anyway – a win win.

shift up some of the time and seemed to not be catching within the mechanism. The bike was about 3 years old by now and not being mechanically inclined nor having any sense of how long such things are expected to last I fronted my LBS and asked the mechanic to have a look. When he phoned me later in the day I was relieved to learn it wasn’t going to cost me a fortune to replace a worn out shifter – to the contrary I was left feeling sheepish when the mechanic explained the mechanism had become gummed up because I didn’t use it enough (translation: I wasn’t riding enough to be worthy of such a group set). Proof that WD40 does fix everything.

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Do you have an interesting cycling story to tell?

Something to share with the group….a passion, something interesting: I donate approximately one litre of blood plasma every 3 weeks at the Red Cross and will make my 150th donation next month. I wondered whether the reduction in blood plasma affected athletic performance – like climbing speed in the Adelaide Hills. I was certain my community service to medicine was the only barrier to me leading my own squad to victory up Alp d’Lofty. I found scientific studies that showed plasma donation has absolutely no influence on athletic performance but subconsciously I still cling to the idea that it’s the sole reason I don’t climb as fast as others. It couldn’t be anything else, could it? 53

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Norton Summit Road

Strava Segment - Norton Summit, Magill. South Australia 5.5km Distance

5.1%

97m

Average Lowest Grade Elevation

378m

281m

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Norton Summit Road

ACE Member Hugh Banister: This is the first climb I rode into the Adelaide

The road has 4 major switch backs and

Hills, and is my favorite. We usually meet at

never really levels out. Once you start the

the Tower Hotel just before the turn off from

climb, the only way is up! The gradient is

Magil onto the New Norton Summit Road.

never too steep, and starts to shallow as

There is a time trial route that runs up New

you approach the time trial line. After this the

Norton Summit Road, and the start point is

climb is relatively easy, with one flat, even

at this junction. It runs up about 7km where

slightly down hill section. The views across

there is a line drawn across the road... The

the city are spectacular on the way up with

record is 11 1/2 minutes (that will give you

a couple of houses afforded a magnificent

something to aim for!), and believe me that

view...

is shifting. My best is a short 16 minute ascent!

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Looking east. Sunset over the hills - Barossa Valley. Stage 1, 2014 Tour Down Under. Mengler Hill KOM to the left of this image.

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Favourite Climbs & Descents of the Adelaide Hills Montacute Descent from Marble Ruins Montacute Climb Marble Hill Climb

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Strava Segment - Marble Hill Climb - Stradbroke Rd start. South Australia 11.6km Distance

4.0%

26m

Average Lowest Grade Elevation

487m

462m

Highest Elevation Elevation Difference

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Montacute Road

Strava Segment - Montacute from RA, Rostrevor. South Australia 8.1km Distance

4.8%

121m

Average Lowest Grade Elevation

510m

390m

Highest Elevation Elevation Difference

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Strava Segment - Montacute DH - Marble Ruin to Maryvale Rd. South Australia 10.7km

-4.0%

157m

Distance

Average Lowest Grade Elevation

587m

430m

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Montacute Road

Hugh Bannister: Montacute Downhill This is my favorite descent from the hills, only

problem is that you have to get to the top first, and Corkscrew is only half way up! From the top

beautiful views across the valley, especially when you look down to clouds in the valley. As you approach the junction at the top of Corkscrew the gradient increases with a couple of sharp bends, this caught 20+ pros on the TDU napping last year when they had a big stack on one of these corners. After this the gradient levels, the road is smooth, the scenery in the valley spine tingling and the descent fast and furious. You can peddle as hard as you like and it feels like you will never stop accelerating until you hit the first roundabout at Cambletown!

hill, running, initially along the top of the ridge with

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of Marble Hill the descent is slightly undulating

Bill Le Blanc: Montacute Road

This is my favourite climb near the city. The gradient varies with plenty of 10-12% challenges in the mix. The climb is adjacent a creek at the bottom and it’s easy to lose yourself in the environs and forget you’re supposed to be suffering up the hill. The ‘average’ gradient of 5% misleads - this climb has some challenges in it. For a nice steady climb at 5% try Norton Summit Rd – a lot of riders (self-included) use Norton as a bit of a climbing time trial / reference point.

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The view from the top of Coach Road

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