A Hilly, Wet, Windy day, I was in for some pain. The race kicked off fast
with a 8% climb 200m from the start this really put the heart in the
mouth.
After the first 3 laps my heart rate finally came down and i settled in
to a nice pack off 110 riders much smaller fields compared to Belgium
racing but never the less just as fast. On the first the lap i remember
looking down at my garmin to see we were hovering around 45-50k up the hill
ahhh from the flat windy roads of Belgium to the Hilly side of South
Germany definitely was a shock to the system.
Though it was short lived in the peleton as i got a flat and was lucky
to have a bystander lend me a tube. This is were it really sucks when
you don't have your team car following the race to give you another
wheel.
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| Lonely wet chase |
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| Covered in dirt |
Oh i think i forgot to say I'm racing in Germany on my own as i came back with my Girlfriend to tour around awhile. So obviously none of my team mates or team directors are here for problems like this. This left me chasing for the rest of the race only to end up being lapped with 3 laps to go roughly 30k. The weather took for the worse and rained the last 50k or so of the race making for a quite slippery course. After being lapped I pulled out covered in dirt and quite disappointed as the legs were feeling good. Oh well that's racing I will have my next race next Sunday so fingers crossed all goes well :)
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