Another day at hillingdon

My blog seems to be getting a little bit repetitive as once again on a saturday afternoon I head down to Hillingdon for the Imperial Winter Series.

Once again Paul Pickup stole the show with a fantastic break away ride with a strong rider from High Wycombe CC.

My legs were actually feeling a bit rubbish after a training ride on Wednesday evening which i'd done with some guys from Kingston Wheelers. This ride had involved a few too many short intervals which may be partly to blame for the sore legs.

Because of this I was pretty quiet all race and only had a couple of digs. One in the middle, which got a small gap with team mate Steve Golla but didn't last too long. Another one towards the end which helped split the field up a bit as a small group formed just off the front and a few people including Steve bridged across.

In the run in to the finish I had one last dig to break away from this group in an attempt to take the 3rd place, however legs weren't playing ball so ended up finishing somewhere in the break and somewhere in the top 10, not too many places away from Steve who had mistimed his sprint a little and had deserved more for his attacking riding throughout the race.

A few angry cyclists seemed to be sitting near me in mid-bunch today including one particularly charmless fella from Twickenham cc who threatened to "punch me in the face" - not exactly sure what for, but I thought how very nice of him.

With the road season proper fast arriving and also with work commitments it looks like i'll be an unlikely starter at Hillingdon for the next few rounds, although hopefully will be able to make the last one on the 16th of Feb.