At last, a real chance for some success. With the bulk of the big names off at the Benchmark Race there was only about 10 people left in A grade of which 3 were NA riders.
Rob attacked at the start of Dominion but it held together. I rode off the front further up dominion (actually quite by accident - I had trained up there recently with Ross and we had ridden quite hard) before I knew it there was a bit of a gap between myself and the group. I carried on and Rob managed to bridge across coming down George Harvey Road - it seemed to take ages for him to get to me. Once he was there I kept the pace up and we worked together. Chris C was still back with the others but was busy calculating the times like usual. We really expected them to catch us before Cemetery corner and were suprised when they didn't. I had initially expected them to and had then planned to sit in until the hilly end of Central. The fact that they hadn't caught us meant that we had to keep going. Rob and I worked pretty well together and by the time we got to Edwards Road we couldn't see the others. We kept the pace up on all of the uphill sections and eventually came in to Redwood Valley Road together. It came down to a fair straight-up sprint and I managed to pull clear.
We finished up 5 minutes ahead of the group.
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