Yes I missed 2 weeks with night shift and the Melbourne cup, but I made a return for Rd5 and I was feeling.......SORE! Anaconda Augusta on Sunday was brilliant, but I was very sore and tired for the Tue Crit, but I thought after 0430 start at work I'd have a roll around anyway.
Familiar faces on arrival, Chris, Gregor (happy birthday), Lorraine, Nick, Tony, Greg. A slow lap with Chris was very handy as this was my first time in reverse and there were a few changes with a few large rocks in choice places. Turns out there was a massive field for both A and B grade this week.
Off the line I saw Chris doing well near the front. I on the other hand was finding that the soreness in my legs was inversely proportional to the strength in them. Where I had been in the top5 in previous weeks I was dead last this week, and struggling to get back onto the last wheel. "Quite dusty back here" I thought.
Midway through the second lap I was catching someone. To my surprise it was Chris. I asked if he had fallen off! We rode together for a while and I was doing my best. Each time through the Start line Tony and Lorraine were teasing me about how much it hurts. Managed to find something from somewhere and I pulled away from Chris and took another. Gave it everything of the very little I had to try and stay away.
Passed young Nick on my 4th lap, nice short cut Nick! Yes I did notice he wasn't the only one who was chosing to take a short cut rather than dismount and push up over the mounds. It wasn't THAT hard.
A few A grader's lapped me on the my last lap, noticed one of them was Sean O'Neil. Didn't see him at Augusta!
With a great deal of deadness in the legs and swaet running off me everywhere, I finished my 5 laps 16th out of 20. Gregor rode well top 10 finish in more normal cycling gear although he did have the name of some country where they speak funny on his kit. Great fun yet again. Next week last round of the Dirt Crit's and a BBQ to celebrate.
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