Feburay 6th - Lakes to Sea

Hannah dropped me off at the Lakes to Sea on her way to Christchurch. For a while we wondered if there were going to be many A grade riders turning up but a heap appeared at the last minute. It was a pretty steady start and it wasn't until the start of Kerrs that things started to pick up. I had spoken to Brandon at the start and had offered to lead him out if he was with us at the end. Unfortunately at the top of the hill he was about 50m back so we had to just hope that he would be able to make it across. We had quite a good group which worked pretty consistently down the valley and over the Reay until the first attacks along the Spring Grove straight. There was a last minute attack from Hodges on the road to Rabbit Island. Rob had offered to lead me out so we were hoping that there would be a group effort. Sadly this didn't happen and we were a little boxed in at the end as we tried to go with the last minute surge. I managed to come about 5th - just beating Dean on the line. Not a bad effort.