Seems like there is a lot of info on the rest of the race so I will give a little bit of feed back from the C?s <?:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> Well I started in the third row getting there nice and early, little did it help, as soon as we eventually got out the gates the line was in single file and boy were they in a hurry, I tried to stay as close to the front of the bunch as possible, but it seems everyone else had the same idea so I was getting over taken by everyone and there auntie, I slowly got pushed further back into the bunch, and true as hell on the first climb up to the left turn the bunch split, so I used everything I had to get across to the front guys? I made it just. As soon as I joined they accelerated again and the 3 guys in front of me got dropped and I again went around them to catch up with the break, by now my right leg was telling me to get off and walk , it has been really tight the last few weeks. On the downhill after the first left was I got dropped . I soloed for the next 5km until a bunch of about 4 or 5 riders caught up, myself and a club one hundred guy set the pace for a couple of km?s. We caught up with a kid in CSC kit riding restricted gears, and a didata dude. The CSC guy helped set the pace a bit, but the didata guy didn?t seem to want to help, whenever he went to the front he would slow down to around 20km/h eventually I got annoyed and attacked him and the CSC kid came with. We got to within about 1 km behind the break but I just couldn?t seem to get across. Passed a lot of B riders. We turned left into that wind the CSC kid tried to get across to the bunch, not sure if he did, but I soldiered on and got caught by some B?s (I really don?t like wind). The didata guy caught up eventually, in a bunch (he hadn?t been working) and as he joins he attacks? I was not impressed I got onto his wheel and refused to work, we turned right and the wind was behind us ? I sat behind him for a while as he was still doing a good 40km/h, I went to the front when the speed dwindled, but he tried to get passed me again I don?t know what his problem was but once I got to the hills in the middle I attacked him again and rode him off my wheel. I never saw him again, but I was now alone I soldiered on as before and over took a lot of people I quite enjoyed myself for the last +-45km I time trailed to the end passing tazman (nice BIKE) to finishing in around 3 hrs and some secs. I quite enjoyed the race? sure it would have been much better if it weren?t for the wind? I will be back next year; I just hope the wind isn?t Thanks for all the support at the end, I needed it when that fun rider decided to sprint me for 27562341 place actually wait he was only doing 70km (first attempt so pls don't blow me out the water)
