First Road Race
Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 8:11 pm
Did my first official road race today and got absolutely killed. I can keep up reasonably well on the club training rides and finish with the group in the few crits I have done with the club, but....
It was a 45km run from Terrey Hills to West Head and back through the hard way up from Akuna Bay ( for those not in Sydney it's quite undulating with dead roads, finishing off with one of the harder climbs in the north of Sydney).
Got dropped fairly early and then obviously spent most of the next hour on my own. The pace was reasonably high from the start and with the constant undulations there was no resting at all.
Needed a good kip when the kids were also asleep in the afternoon to make it through the day. Wife didn't like it as once I got home all I wanted was a sleep and was next to useless for the rest of the day
It was a 45km run from Terrey Hills to West Head and back through the hard way up from Akuna Bay ( for those not in Sydney it's quite undulating with dead roads, finishing off with one of the harder climbs in the north of Sydney).
Got dropped fairly early and then obviously spent most of the next hour on my own. The pace was reasonably high from the start and with the constant undulations there was no resting at all.
Needed a good kip when the kids were also asleep in the afternoon to make it through the day. Wife didn't like it as once I got home all I wanted was a sleep and was next to useless for the rest of the day