Monday, September 22, 2008

Road Racing

The lads from bikeline have been pushing me to enter a road race so I thought that this Sunday would be the day to do it. Saturday night there was a big storm that passed through Toowoomba so the race looked like it mite be wet, but in Toowoomba it doesn't rain two days in a row and normally the day after is really hot and sunny. Once again this was the case as we headed to the race there was no water to be seen on the roads. We arrived at the race at 6:30am and it was time to register. C grade was the Jr category gory so C grade it was for me. The race started at 7:30 and by then it really hotted up. From the start the race was quick with group of about 5 attacking on the first climb. I attach my self to the back of another Jr's wheel and just sat at the back of the group. By the ended of the main decent my group was about 500m in front of the chasers. The group consisted of 3 Jr riders and 2 senior which suited me. There were 3 main climbs left in the race so on the first one i decided that I would have ago at breaking the group up, which worked. The group split and the 2 senior riders fell off the back, leaving the 3 Jr's to sort out the podium. We entered the last corner and I was leading which probably wasn't the greatest position to be in as I was unable to see the riders behind me. I quickly brought up the speed with 200m to go and one of the riders had already dropped of leaving me an another to sort out 1 and 2. He was hot on my wheel and I could not see him with about 20m to go he attacked and i was unable to respond, leaving me to finish 2ND. Lesson learnt to no be leading coming into a sprint.

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