Afternoon ride

This was double dip file from MyWhoosh Cycling Esports League. I participated again because to race masters nationals you need to do 2 of this series. My plan was primarily just to get a feel for whoosh dynamics, so I sat in the bunch and let the winning move go up the road with Gatesy and Mitch Stewart. I imagine many of the riders in the bunch thought they'd be ok if they were in the group with me. I decided i'd try and see if I could do something in the final, but it went poorly.

I was going to launch with about 1 minute to go, but I saw a rider coming through the group hard with about 1.6km to go, I kicked hard to get in his wheel and then really relaxed when I got there. This meant the group flew past with momentum out of the downhill, so I had to kick very hard again to get back to the front of the group. I eased in the draft for about 10 seconds before going again with quite a while to go, but a couple of big strong guys were still close enough and had more left in the tank!

Not great signs. and definitely a little reminder that I haven't done any of this work for some time!