Back to our favorite course yet again! This time M2 and M3 were sent off together for our standard 96km. I knew more M3 riders than M2 ones with Tony Catterick, Grant Stirling and Rob Searle being riders worth looking out for. There aren't many M2 riders around and by the time we got to lap4 there was only 2 of us left along with a handful of M3 riders. Gerrard van Antwerpen was the only M2 rider left so on the last lap I give it a bit of a push up Old Coach after Rob had set a good pace in the run in to the hill. At the top of the climb it was only Tony, Grant, Rob and myself left.
Knowing that Gerrard would try hard to catch back on I drove the pace down to the Cemetery corner and along towards Moutere. The others were starting to play games and didn't have the same motivation as I was the only M2 rider in the group. Each time they slowed up I would drive hard down the other side of the lane and they would then sprint to catch up again. As we got closer to the corner before the line Rob went for a late attack. Tony closed him down and so I was in 3rd wheel with only Grant behind me. I attacked in exactly the same place as I had in the previous race in winter and managed to hold them off to win the race and also be 1st M2 rider.
So quite a successful Centre Club Champs with 2 golds - something that I somehow also managed to achieve in 2007.
