Firstly, a special thanks to Bev, who has made lunches (ripper salad rolls!) for everyone who's helped at the series! When we're busy trying to make sure everything's set up, everyone's where they should be etc we don't have time to look after ourselves much, and having food and drinks handy is a great help.  Bev's donated more than her fair share of time and money to the series and we owe her a big thankyou.

What's been going on? I've been pestering Trek for the series prize, and we now have a box with a frame in it ready to present to our series winner. It's a 56cm frame, if that's the wrong size we can swap it.

We're also talking with Trek about the next series and if they're willing to support us again. I hope so, I think the series is worth supporting, but that's Trek's decision and we have to make sure that it makes sense for them to be involved. They want to sell bikes, and this has to help get their name out there and that's something we can't afford to forget. I've done the best I can this season to promote the series, but the job is far from complete and I know we can do better next year with more experience and hopefully our enthusiastic competitors will help spread the word far and wide.

One thing we have no say on is the weather, and the forecast for Sunday is ideal, a pleasant 21 degrees. Eddie Wilson asked for a cool day and we've done our best, but he can't make it to the final round because of an injury. Next series Ed ... We will miss you for this one, you're a true gentleman of the sport and the example you set to the other riders is a very good one indeed.

We've made no further changes to the rules and way we run the races for this round.

I've invited many people to the post-race BBQ including Lorraine Collings and Mal Sawford from Carnegie Caulfield, who I hope will come along and maybe Mal will race the series next summer. We've also invited all the Blackburn people who've been involved in the summer track racing program, they all deserve a thankyou and this is my chance to thank them.

Lastly, we're (as usual) hoping that we'll get a healthy turn out of riders. We've done a heap of work to make this all happen all summer and all the feedback we've had has been positive and encouraging, we need YOU to show up and race with us!  The weather's going to be good, the racing runs smoothly and you get lots of chances to match it with riders that will challenge you.  Come and race with us!