16th January 2007

First race of the season at Hillingdon Circuit
 

Thankfully is was not raining too hard for my training race today.  But the wind made up for the lack of rain!!    I was looking forward to my first race of the season at the familiar grounds of the Hillingdon Circuit which has been recently re-vamped!      My aim today was to enjoy myself and throw some jumps in.   I was feeling quite good and up for racing so after about 10 laps or so I decided to chase down a few guys who had tapped of the front.   I chased hard up the finish straight and thankfully a handful of guys kept the effort going and we managed to get about 12 of us away to chase down the 4 guys up front.       Try as we did we could not catch the guys up front but it was hardly surprising with Lewis Atkins up front!                                         We had gained enough ground to keep away from the bunch but we could not make up enough ground to catch the 4 guys up front so we waited for the sprint lap to battle out the last few laps.   I was hot on the wheels of Bill Butterworth to finish 14th place overall.   A good ride today, I really enjoyed myself and I was encouraged about how good I felt.

Sunday the 17th January - Team Quest ride 

Today was an early reliability ride arranged by Paul from Team Quest.   We all hooked up at 9.30am in Ickenham to ride a 100k bike route taking you around Amersham and some of the Archer road race course.  Including Gore hill!     A real nice ride today and I was feeling good which is always a nice feeling.    we finished around the 3 hour mark without being too competitive, so we added on an extra hour to spin back home and chill ready for my well deserved rest day tomorrow! Yippee..........

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