When the course for the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race was being designed before the first event played out in 2015 there was an obvious inclusion, a climb up what, until the World Championships in 2010, had been an innocuous suburban street – Challambra Crescent.
Back then, crowds thronged to the footpaths and nature strips of the normally peaceful location with views over Geelong and its surrounds. And so it was an obvious addition as a decisive point in this new race, named after the Australian who had claimed the rainbow stripes in 2009 and the yellow jersey of the Tour de France in 2011.
