Well another carefully organised and perfectly planned Benchmark Race loomed. This time the team had dispensed with given me any instructions and in fact didn't tell me about the meeting the night before. I can't say I was very impressed.
The circuit was the normal Woollastons Estate romp but started at the Moutere Hall. The weather was fine (which was a bonus) and not too cold. The whole thing pretty much stayed together. We lost some people early on but there was quite a large group still there despite the efforts of Benchmark to break things up.
I closed a few gaps for Jeannie who seemed to struggle a bit on the section along the Moutere highway after cemetery corner it was good to be able to do something useful. Things were looking promising for a change and I thought that I might actually finish a BM race with the group. Sadly it wasn't to be. On the 3rd to last lap Jeannie and Karen had been dropped on the Old Coach road climb. Chris called me back to help them out - a pointless exercise given that they were the only women left on the course. Chris and I lapped out trying to get them back onto the group. This was pretty hard work especially given that the women were not contributing or even giving me space to move back in behind Chris so I ended up having to go to the back and then all the way to the front again. The peloton had picked up the pace and we weren't really making any progress. Chris seemed to surge each time he came to the front and in the end I couldnt keep up and dropped from the group. After a brief recovery I actually managed to get catch up again and immediately came to the front for another turn. This didn't last long and after a few pulls I was gone for good.
I finished as usual by myself - still at least I completed it.
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