This tour was real cool and promised to be a good course for me but unfortunatly the form didnt seem to be there for me .
stage 1
was a 105km stage with the first 60km flat and then 2 hard hills and then a hilltop finish. it was real windy so i went hard in the first 20km to try and form a good breakaway, so by the 20km mark i was in a break of about 10 guys so after driving it for a bit just to get the break a good gap i sat back, saving a bit for the hills. was pretty cruisy fro the first hill but got rolled at the top for the gpm points. the 2nd climb was a bit harder with more attacks but nothing got away until over the top some guy went off the front solo and got a big gap as no one seemed willing to chase with the final climb looming ahead. from the bottom the pace as on and i went with an attack of the guy who was leading the gpm and we had a good gap over the bunch until the road flatened out and we were caught, the road then kicked up again for the final 3km the same guy attacked again but i wasnt able to hold his wheel so he went off solo, by this point the bunch was down to 5riders and i was suffering, attacks went but we managed to stay together till the end where i got 3rd in the sprint so 5th for the stage. the guy that got away before the climb won. my legs felt like shit compared to how they were a couple of weeks ago as i should have been able to stay with the guy that got 2nd.
stage 2
this stage was a real cool 16.8 km tt that was block head wind the whole way and uphill about 3 or 4% for the first 10km. legs were feeling good warming up and then by my watch with still 7min to go till my start time the marshals were calling me saying i had all ready suposed to have gone so i started about 30 seconds late and then my speedo wasnt working and when you get something bad like that happen it ruins your motivation and i couldnt get any good rhythm. real gutted but not much i could do about it. i ended up 8th in the stage and 5th gc and if i hadnt lost the 30seconds i would have been in 2nd or 3rd.
stage 3
last stage was 95km with a hard 7km climb in the middle. it was super windy again and the first 40km was flat and a break of 15 got away which i missed. when we got to the climb the yellow jersey attacked and i went with him and we got up to the break which was pretty split up, we caught all of them except for 1 guy who got off the front of the break. the yellow jersey droped the pace a bit and a few guys managed to catch so the bunch got pretty big up the climb. again the legs felt average and everytime i attacked i was going into the red zone. the bunch stayed together till 500m to go the yellow jersey put it into the big chain ring and smashed it, i tried getting on his wheel but the legs had other ideas. so over the top i was caught by the bunch and yellow managed to bridge up to the guy in the front and they ended up wining by 30seconds. i just finished in the peloton of about 20 odd riders. so in gc i ended up 5th equal and 3rd U23. hopefully il have heaps better form for july as i have alot of good races.
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