Campbell Heights RR - got gappppppeeeddd...

I was doing well, I thought...

Managing to keep up with the Cat 4 field up the little sprint hills. But somehow on lap five I got behind the wrong wheel between the two hills. Looked up and saw two things. First that there where some people accelerating off the front! Second my two guys where dropping off the middle group!!!

By the time we got to the top of the second little climb I was about 200m behind the following group of about five guys. And they where a good 300m behind the leaders.. I had to TT for about 2km to catch up. Then we stayed about 30 seconds behind the leaders for a couple of laps. Then during the second last lap that lead extended to about 60 seconds...

By the final lap we had collected another 5 riders dropped from the lead bunch so we all had a fun time doing our own little sprint. I ended up on Brian Wongs wheel about 300m out and he ended up going too early, with me following and going to early and having to pull up about 30-40m from the finish line which let Bill Reilly get past me.

The race was slightly slower this year, I think because the course was shorter. We did eight laps of 8km, last year was seven laps of 9.6km. With the same amount of climbing per lap. So end result was 30 seconds faster and a fair bit more work... 180 TSS vs 166 TSS!