It was wet - very wet... In fact I'm not sure that I have raced in quite as much rain before. It was also very windy. While it hadn't been raining during my ride to the start I had been alarmed to see my HR on 88% while the speed I was doing was only 30kph. Just as I got to Richmond the rain started and for once in my life I opted to wear a vest (although given the sail like nature of my vest I chose to wear it under my shirt).
We did a quick pace out towards Brightwater. Not wanting to be dropped going up Heslington I figured that the best defence was to drive the pace up the valley. I could see someone just behind me so I figured that we couldn't be going that hard but at the steepest part of the climb I saw that it was only Mike Anderson, Rob S and myself with the others further down the road. We worked together and established a reasonable gap however in the strong headwind it was unlikely that we would succeed.
Tom H caught us up Maiseys and then as we turned into the old Stringer Strait we were joined by the others. Chris N attacked on the Appleby bridge and I managed to get across but was exhausted when I got there and could see that the whole thing was going to end a sprint outside the A&P Show Grounds and so I eased off the back and rode in with a couple of C grade riders which we had caught - I was too exhausted to do anything else anyway!
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