I did a smaller club road race last week too, which didn't go great because I hadn't been feeling well for a while and it definitely showed. I pulled a bit on the front but then on the second lap round was forced to draft or get dropped. So to make up for it I pulled from the last turn up to a few hundred metres from the line, just to say I did something, which I did: Joe Moore managed to launch himself from my pull and finished first from our scratch group. Unfortunately we didn't manage to catch group 1, which meant my apprentice Danny came second in the sprint from his breakaway group, which I was delighted about.
A quick update on the tyres, as I have now both trained and raced on them in very wet conditions and I must say there were brilliant. Naturally you don't lean as much in the wet but I didn't find myself having to restrict my movement, I was able to ride relatively normal on them even in slippery conditions, so the Continental Attack/Force tyres definitely get the thumbs up from me after ticking all the important boxes with ease.
To end on a high note, I did a club ride on Sunday, after a 3 hour ride on Saturday in the blistering heat we had, and it went very well. On the way back we came across the wolds (hills are never a bad thing). After trying to launch a little attack up one hill I was marked out by Big Ed thanks to a warning from Grommett, but on a much bigger hill when we had some good speed, I went for it, and dessimated the group, whilst climbing in a stunningly large gear of about 53x14. Coming into Waltham there is a nice flat straight road so I thought why not have a sprint? So I did. That also went well. So a few minutes later I did another one at Toll Bar. Again it went well. It was a good ride, had everything I wanted, hills and sprints. Can't complain.
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