With slightly sore legs from Saturday's Hog Hill adventure I arrived at the HQ and was immediately buoyed by the fact my mate George Brent (Addiscombe CC) had won the morning 3rd cat race. I most certainly wouldn't be winning the 2/3 race but if I finished with the bunch it would be good training. The race got away at a good but not too hectic pace neverthess however after 20 minutes a fellow 2nd cat who has already amassed 78 points in the winter series began riding backwards. Oh dear!
We were on gently rolling 12 mile course and were racing just short of 6 laps.
I spent most of my time in the back half of the bunch which after a three laps and horrendous headwinds had split. The rain came down and so did the number of riders. I was a little tentative not having done many 70 mile rides but managed to get the legs working well in the final 3rd of the race. By this point it was too late to make any difference on the top 20 placings; and my efforts to organise a chase just ended with myself and Simon from Dulwich Paragon tiring ourselves out and getting dropped off from the final 10 man group with around 4 miles to go. When your completely shattered, soaking wet and freezing cold 2nd from last place doesn't tend to matter. Bring on the next race :-)
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