First race in a little while

Didn't race the beaumont last weekend took instead a much needed rest, sounds like the Sigma team had a good ride there with Wouter riding in the break most of the race and Rob making the final selection of 4 but being dropped off after his efforts put to get there.

On thursday evening I did a SL handicap race out near Gatwick on a pretty good course with a little hill on each lap. Keith set our scratch group of five some eternity after everyone had left. Within 2 miles we were down to four when George Brent (Addiscombe cc) found the pace up the hill a bit much, another couple of miles later we lost my team mate Gary Dodd which was a bit of a dissapointment. So that left Chris Moores (Norwood Paragon), Andy Betts (Twickenham CC) and myself to rided through and off for an hour.

A good workout, although did get a bit tactical with a lap to go after we'd caught the other groups with everyone bar the race winner Burdeau (agiskoviner) who was busy time trialling to victory. I finished 3rd after losing out to Chris Moores in the sprint.

In the car on the way home Gary discussed that possibly his bio-rhythm wasn't right that day - and was talking about the near future when he was certain that he would be able to buy an implant to tell him whether or not he was going to have a good day out on his bike or not. Something like that would certainly save money as a 80 mile round trip to Gatwick to race midweek seems a pretty costly evening out with Petrol costs like they are.

Friday morning I met up with Dan Lloyd who lives nearby in Sunbury and rides for the An Post team. I met him at the Ras a month ago and have met up for a couple of very nice cake and coffee rides since then. However friday Dan had other ideas thanks to his coach Hunter Allen, and set about ensuring I was pretty tired for the afternoon. Was good fun though, and these couple of good hard training sessions have left me feeling a bit more prepared for this weekends GP of Wales.