Cyclosportif Sur le Rivet a York - CycleOther

So as I said it was absolutely beautiful day I felt naked! was wearing just the summer riding gear, no arms long gloves, shoe covers etc. It was just fantastic! the wind picked up while we were out on the course luckily it was a headwind on the way out and we got blown back a bit on the homeward stretch.

We worked really well as a team together. taking turns on the front. it all went really smoothly. I didn't drink nearly enough but I get distracted aboutdrinknig when I'm riding in a team thing. need to concentrate on that more.

These events are a bit hard at times, its a team time trial obviously everyone is at different levels but our team is pretty good at helping everyone along and sticking to a good pace that everyone is comfy with. We were passed by a team doing the longer event. however they only just passed us. We sat behind them in their draft. some of the guys on my team immediately wanted to pass them.

I said no, we were travelling faster then they were but we were sitting in their draft. if we were to pass them right then and there we would have used up alot of energy and then I know some of the not as strong team members would fall back and slow down. (hence causing that tema to then pass us again) So we sat back in their draft and enjoyed it for a couple of km's. then when everyone was refreshed and happy we upped the pace and passed the team all together and zoomed off. (if we'd done it before I think only half the team wouldh ave made it passed them and the other half would be stuck behind that team)

Drink more, work out some better team tactics about teams passing and passing teams.

I for the first time after a race did a good stretch!


not much it was a team event I was riding stronger then I usually do!


I'm very very happy that I can comfortably ride 54k's at the moment and see it as a short ride~ I really just felt warmed up by about 40ks! I'm really quite impressed!!