Quite a hard day out for all the riders yesterday at the London Dynamo Summer Road Race, and I was surprised it stuck together for so long on quite an undulating course showing that the SE has plenty of strong riders.
Perhaps i was still in sportive mode, as whilst I was riding pretty hard up the hills I tended to then ease off on the flats and descents and also I didn’t put in my usual attacks towards the end try to try and avoid it coming down to a sprint. Not surprisingly riding up mountains at a hard steady pace for a week has made me better at riding a hard but steady pace.
In truth I was a bit stuck of how to beat Jon Tiernan-Locke (Mid Devon CC) who was riding fantastically all day, in just about every break and having plenty of spare speed to play with on the climbs. I finished 4th, also behind Dan Patten and Rob Hurd, who managed to get by me in the sprint.
Next weekend is the Southern Counties Road Race with the finish up Leigh Hill so might try and get a practice run in during the week if time allows.
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