Tuesday, June 2, 2009

SG Race - Hope Circuit (14th March)

The bad results continue!  The Hope Circuit was fairly straighforward - Dave attacked early on but it all came together again.  We lost a number of people in some of the early laps - I'm not sure that they knew how fast it was going to be.  Chris attacked with 3 Laps to go.  I had heard him talking with George and had planned to go with 2 Laps to go.  He was sitting at the back of the group and I watched him go up the inside and then get around the corner first.  It was quite impressive to see.

I had to wait to make it around the corner and then rode from the back of the group right off the front to try and get onto Chris - this was up the straight with the hill so it was quite a big effort.  George and I lapped out to try and get Chris back - I think he had 3 others with him who had been closer at the front from the start.  Coming through the finish line straight there was no-one coming through and I ended up doing a big turn when really I should have eased off and forced someone else to come through.  They did in the end but it was too late and I struggled to keep up and finished the race by myself.

On the plus side though, Chris C won the B grade race so for the NA team it wasn't all bad news.

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