Hillingdon 22/7/09

[Rob W]

This was my first race since more or less getting over a chest infection.I was lucky to get there at all as i thought being the school holidays the traffic wouldnt be that bad WRONG and then a flat tyre on the van.When i got there met Scott and we had a bit of a warm up.There wasnt as many riders as most weeks as the weather must have put some off.Most of the race went as usal.I had a small attack off the front after a few laps,but the wind coming down the long straight was like hitting a brick wall at 20 mph.I then thought it best to just sit in the first top 10.Had no trouble with any of the race, i even had another rider come along side and ask me to go on the attack with him on the 52nd minute.Any way the 3 laps to go board came up and that put an end to that.The pace went up each lap to the finish.On the final sprint i got into a fairly good postion got blocked a bit but didnt worry to much,but then on the final push for the line the legs just had no power and i came in 16th.So it looks like more work on my sprinting and back i go next week.