Excellent ride today. Wet roads but no rain and no wind.
8 of us headed out and soon caught up with Main group 2 who were meandering on a sight seeing tour down Canning Hwy at 30 kph. Dutifully sat back and chilled out and thinking that if Tracy had been here she’d have been chomping at the bit – last week we ran this section at 35 + with her on the front. Finally arrived at North Lake Road junction and we turned left and took off up the hill as the meanderers carried on towards Freo.

More girls than boys on in the Transitional today but that didn’t slow the pace down at all. At North Lake, Chris with her new deep rimmed Zips had deserted us for Main 2 on Canning however we picked up an ex main group rider on South – so back up to 8 again.

Staying paired up all the way into Bannister and then time for the roll throughs; these were as good as last week with the inside line running at 31-34 and the outside sliding past nicely – maintaining a decent speed on the inside and riding smoothly past on the outside seems to be the trick.

Back into pairs along Nicholson and then having just turned into Albany Hwy the ‘bikes back’ call came through and we now had Main 1 sitting on our tail. Moving over we went to let them through – but they were clearly feeling kind and caring and mixed it in with us. Picking up their pace we rode along Manning as a solid peleton of around 30 bikes and me thinking ‘now that’s why I like riding with SPR’.

Turning right towards Curtin and one or two at the back had got caught at the lights whilst the front end had a half hearted sprint. Pace picked up to 45 but no-one was serious – clearly all they were thinking about was hot chocolate and bacon n’ egg muffins at Petes place.

Big thanks to Kate & Lorraine and the team for yet another fantastic breakfast & good to catch up with Ronny again who’s been off the bike and sucked into exam swatting . . . . looking forward to seeing you back on the Cervelo Dr. R
Cheers Mark_S