21st
78.5kg
Had a good race at Hillingdon yesterday. Three of us from Rollapaluza were there. It was very wet and very windy, on the warm up lap I could barely get down the back straight.
The bunch stayed together just gradually shelling people out the back, I lost my glasses after about 10 minutes and my eyes were stinging from the rain and grit. At one point I found myself off the back as the guy a few places in front got dropped. I chased back on (took a while and it bloody hurt). On the last lap I tried to attack from the back going down the back straight, I went absolutely no where as soon as my nose was in the wind. I get back in the bunch and sat up as we went down the start finish straight to avoid any sprinting drama (read crash).
Very pleased with how I did, felt wired not trying all the way to the end but the difference between 20th and 10th isn’t worth worrying about.
Sean and Tom both finished in the bunch too. I think Sean was 10th or 11th, Tom found himself on the front into the last corner, which with the tailwind we had probably wasn’t as bad a position as he thought.
I’m enjoying myself a lot this year, I have no expectations and just race for the hell of it. I do need to be careful to not just settle for mid pack mediocrity though.
