Those of you expecting another account of one of my doomed attacks are sadly going to be disappointed this time. For a change I sat in and the pace was so relaxed that we were caught by some of the B grade race along the Moutere Highway. I made a couple of attempts to ease off the front befoe the airport but they were fairly short lived.
As we started along the Mot valley towards Ngatimoti there is a short climb and it was here that I gave it a bit of a nudge to see if anyone was interested. I was joined by Caleb and we settled down into a good rhythm keeping a steady pace. Tom Hodges bridged across and the 3 of us set to work. By the Ngatimoti turn off we had a 30sec lead. At the Central Road turnoff we were out to just over a minute. It was starting to get harder and I did wonder if I was going to keep up. Thankfully Caleb and Tom where also beginning to tire so I managed to stick with it. By the top of Moutere we had dropped back to 30 sec (the times were given to us my Malcolm so its hard to know their accuracy). Along the flat from the bottom of the hill I did some hard turns - to try and keep the pace over 40kph. In the end I came 3rd - I led out the sprint as the others had not tried to drop me in the hills and I was more interested in staying away - plus my points for the series is so low it wasn't going to make any difference. By my calculations we averaged 38kph which is not bad going.
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