After a crap race the day before i didnt think today would be much better so decided to be a team player today.
the race was 250km drive away so bloody long. the course had a few rollers and 1 hill about a km long, it didnt look very hard riding around it in the warm up but soon the wind picked up and changed everything. the first lap a small break of three guys got away and then a few small groups bridged across i had two team mates up the road, so at the start of the 3rd lap i had a crack to see if i get across to the front group to help them out, 2 guys went with me but on the next small hill i attacked them as i didnt want to bring more across to the break, i managed to make it the rest of the way to make the group 11 riders and the group i was with didnt make it, which was lucky. I wanted to help out my team mates kieran and clement in the break so i did alot of work on the front.
with 3 laps to go attacks started coming and keiran got away with 2 other guys, then on the hill someone attacked and i went with them and we bridged up to the front. we all worked well for a bit untill everyone started playing around atacking each other, 1 guy got away, then i went after him. we got to the hill with 1 guy 30seconds ahead of me and the group 20 seconds behind me. 1 guy jumped from kierans group and caught me and we worked together to catch the guy out front.
We caught him with a lap to go and the hole time it was just cat and mouse between us with no one able to get away or drop anyone, so we came to the finish all together but all the work i had done earlier in the race caught up with me and i got drilled in the sprint and got the 3rd.
Was good to do alot better than the day before so was pretty happy with my race but still a bit guttered i couldnt win.
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