Good weather nice and dry a little warmer then yesterday so great conditions for racing.
After a lap Paul, Rob and myself got away in a break with 4 others, it was still real early in the race but we had itchy feet. Paul and I really hammered the pace at first to get us a nice big gap from the peloton.
We all started in a thru n off but it wasn't very smooth with Paul, myself and a Kingston Wheeler doing the lions share of the effort.
After a lap of this Paul and I broke away on our own and slowly got reeled back in, then we tried again a couple of laps later, I could tell Paul was stronger than me as I was a little under par with my legs, and we got caught again with about 3 laps to go.
Our breakaway was finally reeled in by the peloton with over 2 laps to go.
Then Rob managed to get up the road with 4 others and they managed to stay away till the finish.
I attacked the Peloton hard with 1.5 laps to go and Paul came and joined me, he knew my legs were toasted so i told him to go alone, he then powered up to the breakaway containing Rob and 3 Kingston Wheelers and just rode straight past them with a fine solo effort for the win.
In just 1 lap he managed to gain 50 seconds on the bunch
I policed the peloton making sure I called out every car and hole to slow the pack with worked a treat they obeyed all my instructions
The funny thing was Paul must have shot past the breakaway in stealth mode as the Kingston Wheelers thought they won at the finish zipping up jerseys and saluting, little did they know Paul had already won
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