1:24:05 just about to launch the final attack. Have been with the same group of 4 for ages. Currently on a short climb leading to a final descent and then a climb to the finish line. At this point the gradient is around 5 to 5.5% and my initial plan was to launch the moment the gradient turned to green. Then I saw that the gradient was just about to increase (bottom right corner on the screen – darker red = steeper climb) and I figured that Andy, Mike and Txing would be tiring too. Made sense for me to surprise them .
1:24:28 final attack is going well but I am struggling to hold the power At the moment though I have managed a 30m lead and it looks like Andy is going to be dropped
1:27:50 on the final hill and Txing is rapidly closing in. At t his point I don't have the strength to fight for 10th place and figure that it make more sense to let him pass me now so that I dont burn up in the next 30 seconds and then lose another place or two with mike and Dok (who has just appeared)
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race begins at 18:10
1:24:05 just about to launch the final attack. Have been with the same group of 4 for ages. Currently on a short climb leading to a final descent and then a climb to the finish line. At this point the gradient is around 5 to 5.5% and my initial plan was to launch the moment the gradient turned to green.
Then I saw that the gradient was just about to increase (bottom right corner on the screen – darker red = steeper climb) and I figured that Andy, Mike and Txing would be tiring too. Made sense for me to surprise them .
1:24:28 final attack is going well but I am struggling to hold the power At the moment though I have managed a 30m lead and it looks like Andy is going to be dropped
1:27:50 on the final hill and Txing is rapidly closing in. At t his point I don't have the strength to fight for 10th place and figure that it make more sense to let him pass me now so that I dont burn up in the next 30 seconds and then lose another place or two with mike and Dok (who has just appeared)
1:29:54 growing a little concerned here because Mike and Dok are only a few seconds behind me. 180m to go
1:33:50 just watching other rider on the course now
Nice perf Stu 👍(Alex79fr)