Today hurt. Those roady girls cracked me and now I am smashed. This morning in the 70k road race the smack went down heading up Spooners, like it does every year. I was maxing out to get to the top in a good position as the field was torn apart. I painfully rolled over the top in a good bunch of about 7? There was no let up as a few leaders had got away and we had to catch them, many ounces of energy later we managed to do so. Then it was still hard, there was no time to recover and my body was hating it. When we hit the bottom of rays saddle my legs couldn’t go any harder so I got dropped. I rode the next 25ish km solo as did Nik Leary who was 400m up the road from me. 5km from the finish we both got swallowed up by the next bunch with Katie and Monique. I am a bit gutted to get dropped from the bunch and to have expended all that energy to gain no time. But at the same time it was awesome to have a go and see what I can do and also check out how hearty New Zealand’s top roady girls ride.
This afternoon we had to do a 19km time trial around a lumpy circuit. It wasn’t very fun, I was really tired and just couldn’t go fast. I lost heaps of time and 11 places down to 26th. Katie got her angry face on in the TT and had a good one as did Monique, only seven seconds apart and they both held their own in GC, 18th and 22nd. At the moment we are all stoked that tomorrow is the LAST day, one more 80km road race to go. After that we can have a sleep in and just be beach bums for while…. Can’t wait.
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