Ayup sorry it's been a while since my last post, there are two main reasons for this; the first is that i have been lazy and the second is that i found a link to watch "the boat that guy built" and so watching this has taken some of my possible blog writing time. Poor excuses i know, but here it is anyway. The weekend before last was the last race i did, and it was a first category race, two hours away on the other side of the mountains to the west. So it was a bumpy drive in the team minibus a bit like the end of "the Italian job" maneuvering a bus round many hairpins with cracking views most of the way. When we set off at about 11 it was 30 degrees and blinding sunshine, however the other side of the summit at super besse was bloomin freezing and raining hard. So we arrived in a miserably wet town which i can't remember the name of and lined up along side 130 other guys who i think were also hoping for better weather judging by the faces, shivering and lack of warm clothing. We all soon forgot about the weather however and got on with the job which took place over 120kms on a 10km circuit, and coming towards the line for the finish i was away with three others with the peloton now split down to about 30 riders about to catch us. i was feeling good this day and i try not to look back at it too much because it's very irritating, but i(because i'm an idiot) thought there was still one lap to go and so didn't sprint (until i saw the lap board with about 20m to go) we were just caught by the peloton and i finished 8th. So we'll forget about this race.
The drive home however was as lovely in the other direction, and of course once we passed super besse on the way home it was 30 odd degrees and blinding sunshine! bloody typical.
The following week was much colder, and maybe it was partly this that led to me getting ill towards the end of the week. Whatever it was i had a few days laid in bed which unfortunately forced me to miss a very good weekend of racing, but woke up on tuesday feeling fresh and ready to hit em hard this weekend.
So there it is, three days of racing this weekend saturday, sunday and monday so plenty of trophy winning opportunities! and plenty to write about...