Well i shall start off by saying that this weeks club ride was the fastest club ride i have done thus far....(to charlswood that is)....22.5 mph avs.
as the training group was called up to get ready, i was slightly worried about some people i have not seen before...and these people looked good !!
we set off and i took the descision just to stay at the back and cling on for dear life, as i felt it was going to be fast. up reigate hill i nearly dropped off but the shame i would have felt infront of the new people kept me going, (though practically dieing).
i was rather releived when we hit lights in reigate as it gave me time to swallow the blood from my lungs that were starting to smoke !!
felt ok going toward leigh (i think its called that). as we cross over it and picked up speed i saw the avs speed on my computer hit 22 and i new i was in for hell.
then almost as a punishment for my lazyness at the back of the group i dropped my water bottle under a lorry...(sorry bike god???). fealing a bit panic struck and thinking it would be a good excuse for dropping out i contemplated waiting for the 19s...but then sylvain came up next to me and said 'stuart, do you think you will make it this time?' ... Consequencly my dam ego got the better of me and in my manliest voice i said 'YES I FEEL GOOD TODAY!' - im pretty sure my nose grew abit
but with no water and on the fastest ride of my life i looked to ray meares...what would he do?...well it was a misty day so i clenched my teath hoping to catch droplets of water....i think it kept me ggoing to rusper.
down through rusper and aproaching the big hill thing before the trhough and off, i dropepd back slightly , sylvain was a little way behind me and so he dragged me back to the peleton.
just before the through and off a couple of people gave me water ..cheers lads very agreeable of you!...through and off was pretty hectic. more of every man for himself type senario. i got separated at one of the round abouts...thought about following but realised i had a roast tomoro and that life was worth living. we had a little team of 3 left however and we all worked hard to sustain a distance with the main group, we picked up sylvain on the way , he recovered a bit, did his fair share of the work and then one the sprint into charlswood....personally i got a cramp just before the sprint
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pretty easy ride back to the church .....i made the mistake of telling people my dastidly plan of making a break at the m25...well i made my break and held off for a while, but i was followed by chris, i thought about trying to avoid him but he looked fairly strong so i thought he would be useful....he then did most of the work to coulsdon and enevitably we got caught at some lights and a smallish chasing group caught us. then back home..
avs when i got home 21.5 mph
cheers stuart
p.s
i have been givin advice for next weeks break away...won't share it ...MUHUHAHAHA