MyWhoosh Champs: Stage 2

Pretty happy with the outcome here. 14th, in what i'd call the main group.

Super easy race, which i'm not complaining about. I don't mind a 1 rep max type race. Although on one of the middle climbs I felt junk and got in my head a bit. Was playing around with the garage door because at points I was getting too cold (shouldn't complain I know), but knew I would cook with it closed on the KOM... anyway.

First bump of the KOM I made a conscious effort to stay sub 500w. It all came together again on the flat part. Then I knew it would be around 5 mins until the next flatter section. I felt good once we got established, and particularly on the headwind corners I felt like one of the stronger guys in the group. But it all started to unravel a bit in the last minute or so of the KOM. I was hanging on for dear life... but made it over with the guys.

Tried to push on a tiny bit on the descent, I thought it was in our teams interest to do so with the make-up of who was around, but not sure it helped, or hindered in the end. We lost about 10sec to the group of 4 just ahead. I stayed in the draft but didn't exert everything in the last 300m, again.

Into 14th on GC, which I don't really care about, and the team is sitting 5th in a super tight contest. Lots to play out. Hopefully get a few hours sleep before the next one!

416NP for 11:30 is pretty solid!

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