ah well, maybe it's the cycling gods telling me that i'm not ready to be upgraded yet. It was my first start in F in a while (I normally hang about in G) and this time I managed to hang on while my legs were warming up. The plan was to help out with the pacing after 75km when I'm properly warmed up. When the pace dropped at 65km, I had some dissonance which I managed to fight until 70km. It was almost a deja vu of the Durbie Dash when we hit Malmesbury road... somehow I dropped the group, but it was too far to go alone so I dropped back and tried not to push the pace so hard. Got 9 riders to go with me down Adderley and leave the group behind and we crossed the line together. Was a great day out, so relieved to have no mechanicals. PS - Mamil, did you drop your bottle on Vryguns? The rider next to me couldn't avoid a dropped bottle and rode right over it and just shook his head afterwards, I think he was too relieved to utter anything.
