By Josh
As the sun rose, the cycling gods again blessed us with a howling south easterly wind.
After directions from the Boss and a kiss for good luck, the advanced group was off. A good start, with about 25 – 30 rouleurs rolling out. once we turned south onto North Lake Rd, the wind and hills cut us down to about 20. The wind was strong and if you could not find a set of broad shoulders to hide behind, there was not much cover.
The first break, Jarrad, Chris and Matty managed to put about 100m on us as Nico put the pedal down to bridge the gap. However the cycling gods did not smile on them…Red Light!
So we were moving solidly along Berrigan Dve now as one group when the motoring public would intervene to give us break number 2. The led group decided to take full advantage of this and the gap grew to about 300m very quickly. The led group now consisted of about 5 riders and the peloton holding about 10. After the peloton realised the potential of the led group, we got our act together and the juice was applied. It was a good attack and a good chase, with the led group looking to punish the peloton and the peleton looking to devour the led group! This continued onto Jandakot Rd, Warton Rd and Nicholson Rd. The cycling gods still did not smile on the break away… a red light at Nicholson and Ranford! So the peloton came back together with juice still on to Albany Hwy, here Nico left us and someone decided to turn of the power. So we rolled along at what seemed like the pace of the novice group, with no one wanting to to put the pedal down. So as we approached the undulations through Vic Pk I decided it was time to go nuts for a minute and drive the pace back up to the ferocious pace that is the advanced group. As i checked my shadow, I noticed someone was on my tail, so I thought that the whole group would be about to put me back in my place, however Johnny sings out “We’ve got a GAP!”
The last break, so I took a quick glance and saw that we had about 80 – 100m on the group. And then the cycling gods smiled for once! Johnny and I were pushing hard through Vic Pk passing through Oats St when the lights changed amber, we looked and saw the chase group slowing “Go Johnny, Go!” I yelled. We gave it everything, we lost sight of the group here and never saw them again…
i did give directions, but i swear that he didn’t get a good luck kiss from me.
Good work Josh, all about timing your break 😉
Did you lead Jonny out?
Yep, we took longer turns on the front to keep the power on
looks liek I turned to early and missed the fun:)
Good work boys, you obviously recovered after my efforts near Jandy airport 😉 I could feel them in my legs on sunday during the Tri..:) Good times 🙂
Yeah that was a hard route. Seemed like we were on full gas for a long long time without the usual traffic lights roundabouts etc to slow us down. Must admit when you kicked it up 53/54km/h I was thinking this is insane and we’ve still got long way to go. Don’t think you were missed when you turned off – ha ha.
We saw the head turn whilst waiting at the lights and for a second thought you were going to sit up……
Upon realisation of ‘the chase’, the “smooth and tight” “roll through” to drag back the minute or two we had lost at the lights quickly formed only to bring us very quickly to…..
…the next red light.
Good work though guys, good timing.