Carl is a qualified level 1 Cycling Australia coach and a level 1 strength and conditioning coach, who has been coaching riders in Melbourne since 2003. Carl mainly works with track sprint and criterium racers and has coached road, criterium and event riders (AUDAX Alpine Classic, 'Around the bay in a day' etc) at all levels, from beginners to A grade and elite juniors.  Carl is an assistant coach with the National Talent ID (track sprint) as of February 2010, assisting Hilton Clarke and as of July 2010 is the NTID Victorian Track Sprint Assistant Coach.

Carl raced B grade in Eastern Combine road and criterium events, and has finished two Melbourne to Warrnambool road races, 3 'Around the bay in a day' rides (including the awful weather epic in 2003) and the 200km AUDAX alpine classic in 2006 (43 degrees up Mt Buffalo! ouch). Carl was always too heavy to survive road races with hills in them.  Carl races B grade at Blackburn club track races and occasionally C grade at DISC when he has time but never misses a round of the summer sprint series.  He used to enjoy motorpaced events, or anything ending in a sprint and a marked distaste for wheelraces and anything where he can't hide and wait for a sprint. Carl also has held an MTBA licence but confesses to being a complete gumby on a mountainbike and is yet to actually start a MTB race.

Carl splits his time between training, coaching, working at Cycle Science Mitcham as a mechanic and bike fit consultant, and IT support and consulting, maintaining the aboc website, running and promoting the Summer Sprint Series and occasional sleep!

Carl has far too many bicycles.

Read Carl's random pontifications on his blog page if you're bored.