RR: Sunbury Fair Crits - 17/3 C-Grade

Executive Summary:
WAHHHHHH!

Actual Report
About 22 people turned up for C-Grade for the crits at the Sunbury Fair
on Saturday. Beautiful weather with a touch of a Southerly blowing on
the course which made for some fun. 3 legs of the standard rectangle
were climbs (if you call 1 - 1.5% climbs) and the last was downhill
(-3.5%) as it turned onto the finish straight (climb).

It was an exciting course, the constant rise and fall was good for me.
Started out bad though, I missed a clip in on my right shoe and fell
immediately to the back of 22 people. Ah well, bide my time and make my
way to the front. I put in some targeted efforts over the first 4 laps
and was sitting pretty on the front or front 3 at times.

Feeling super strong (for me) this morning, I was stretching the field
out on the stiffer of the 3 climbs at the back of the course, blasting
them away on the downhill (love being 80kg compared to 65kg) and then
actually doing some work into the wind.

Whistle lap came... WOOO intermediatry sprint lap. I was on the front,
with one bloke behind me and a little distance to the rest. I let this
guy take the front into the wind. Up the back straight I went past him
- about 700metres to go - got the lead into the descent where I
hammered it down the hill and got a solid line into the finish straight
and went for it up the hill to the finish line... WOO! won it! Sprint
lap cash for me!

Normally after such an effort i'd be feeling like my legs turned to
concrete, but I was feeling great, we had put almost 100metres on the
bunch and I was good to continue at the pre-sprint pace. So we paired
up worked a bit and continued.

Next lap coming down the hill, I switched off a little to recovery
gently, took a line through the bottom that I thought I had taken
before but no....

I hit a bump I hadn't seen before... The rear of my bike went up into
the air... it went right to the outside... and landed with a thud...
then a bounce and rebound.

*GEEZUS*

Ah well kept riding... noises now coming from the rear... *fft* *ffft*
*ffft* I look down into the rear triangle and sure enough i've buckled
my rear wheel with that stunt.

Son of a bitch!

I was feeling fantastic, I was in a breakaway that was working, I had
taken intermediate sprint cash and I was out with a mechanical!

DAMNIT.

Averaging to that point 300watts on my random number generator...

Always next week eh?


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parawolf