Tasman Road Champs Road Race - 12th September

At this stage I'm getting a little tired of the Woolastons circuit! This time the M1 & M2 riders were together which was a nice change. I attacked on the first climb which meant we lost a couple of riders early on and then put in a number of attacks at different points to further try and thin out the group. There was a crash on one of the middle laps which I narrowly managed to avoid and then Ross attacked with about 3 laps to go. This thinned us out to about 7 riders remaining. Murray dropped off on the last climb. In the sprint Ross went early and was not going to be caught. I just didn't have the pace and got a bit boxed in which was unfortunate so I ended up as the 2nd M2 rider with a rider from Blenheim just beating me at the line. Shankers! (as Sophie would say).