CP 7/6

[carl f]

First official top ten!
Rode a much more canny race last night not doing any more silly off the front heroics like the last couple of weeks paid off. managed to work my way up to the front on the last lap but still don't have the final push to get a higher result,ah well i'll take the points


1 4 David Rees Dulwich Paragon 3
2 5 Andy Pollintyne Dulwich Paragon 3
3 15 Keith Henderson Condor Cycles 3
4 10 Mike Cownley Norwood Paragon 3
5 45 Simon Bird Vicious Velo 3
6 23 David Arthur PM 3
7 2 Carl Ferri Addiscombe CC 4
8 7 Harry Franklyn Hargroves Cycles 3
9 3 Craig Calder Bigfoot CC
10 12 Mark Adam London Dynamo 3
11 29 Del Delarunde Dulwich Paragon 3
12 31 Peter Cole Handsling Racing 4
13 28 Simon Alexander Southend 3J

[kieran]

hey! Well done Carl!

Which way was the race going this week?

[carl f]

Thanks guys its back to anti clockwise again. Seemed a lot faster last night but then it could have been my legs

[Sylv]

Well done Carl, and keep improving.

I rode like

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[Steve B]

Yes well done Carl, great ride great result

If you rode like a sack of spuds Sylv, then I was just a few potato peelings
19 laps I lasted when my legs went. I could feel the energy slowly ebbing away lap after lap until 'twang', and the very fine strand of elastic that had kept me attached for the previous 3 or 4 laps, snapped. I had, up until about lap 12, felt ok enough to forage forward to try and keep mid pack. This was mainly to keep away from one particular rider who was 'just annoying me' basically. Anyway, a bit of yoyoing each lap (moving forward when I could and then sliding back slightly up the hill) kept me in the pack, but ultimately not for much longer. The breakaway that went off the front meant the pace picked up, the main bunch chased, my legs lost power, and they fell off. I watched the rest from the bench.
It was a great race to watch with a break containing 5 riders getting away. 2 then got dropped and were joined by another couple of riders from out of the bunch. Quite exciting really, wish I could be in a race like that - Oh sh*t I was

The excitement of finishing top 10 in the first race seems an age away. But hey, there's always next week

See you there

Steve

[Sylv]

Look out for us next week!

[img]http://www.greenpeace.org/international/Global/international/planet-2/image/2009/6/the-pieperpad-dutch-for-pota.jpg[/img]

[Steve B]