For those of you who are not that familiar with things...it is basically this (picture is not actually us, although we did look pretty good all on TT bikes with disc wheels)
The idea is that you have a go at the front and block the wind for everyone else and let them rest, then you fall to the back of the group and slowly find yourself on the front again.
Anyway, we had a strong team and we'd be lying if we said we weren't going for the win. The Dynamos had won it the year before so there even more pride at stake.
We eventually set off, having done some practice runs along the road (and almost coming off a couple of times on corners) and quickly got into a good rythym. The roads were winding and undulating and it was pretty hard to remain as organised as we would have liked, i.e. right on the wheel in front - especially with your hands no where near your brakes!
We lost one of the team and decided that we would be best off going along with 3 of us (you only 3 of the 4 to get your time). The whole ride can only be described as brutal....I was not used to the ups and downs of racing like this and occasionally it became very hard when I missed the wheel to draft from.
Still, we eventually finished in 1:18:37 for the 57.3km course. We had managed to average just under 44kph around a course which is by no means flat. For me, it was one of the hardest rides I had ever done.
For our effort, we managed to pick up a pretty old trophy that has some very good names on it from previous years. I only managed to get a quick shot of it though befor e it went off for engraving - hopefully I'll get to have it in the house for part of the year.
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