It was a perfect morning for riding today, so getting out of bed was easy. Beautiful blue sky, a light southerly wind, and warm temperatures - no better time to be on a bike!!
Around 35 competitors all up in C-Grade - including somebody on-board the most expensive bike I had ever seen in the flesh!! It was Pinarello Dogma2, shod with Lightweight Fernweg wheels, and dressed in the new Campagnolo EPS electronic groupset. That's close to $15,000 worth of bike, rolling around in C-Grade!! Certainly a beautiful example of a bicycle, and great to see it being ridden and raced...
The short story of the day is - I am stoked with how I went. I was very much in the race, and it was only a poor choice of which wheel to follow on the last lap that stymied what I thought was a real chance of a podium position. The race itself was very hard work, but the legs handled it all well and recovered quickly during the brief lulls in pace.
Overall stats for the day were about 44 minutes of racing, at an average speed of dead-on 40.0km/h - so yes, it was a quick race! I've only seen an average speed of 40+km/h a couple of times in my racing history, so that gave me a huge boost in confidence. I managed to roll over the line in around 15th place out of 35 after messing up my positioning in the sprint, so that's another thing for me to work on before next time...
I'm very glad I made the effort to race after such a good result. I can't wait to see how much more my form improves with some more consistent interval training over the next few weeks! I'm almost letting myself dream of a club race podium before the year is out - almost..... :)
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