frozen circuit race
good god, this was cold. cold and wet. just as we were ready to start warming up the wind started drilling us with heavy rain. windy, rainy and 40°. ah jesus.
i borrowed a trainer and rode under somebody's little tent to spin the legs back into some sort of racing shape after the tt.
the circuit race was run on the 2.5 mile circuit from the tt. windy and windy. we set about attacking straight away. i was off briefly with a couple riders. mcdirmid put in a good move and dangled in front of us for a while. ian and emde bridged and so it was 3 of the top 4 spots in the time trial in a break. archibald who'd been second in the tt was left to try and get the other yahoos to ride in a sensible fashion. it proved to be an impossible task.
the smart and sensible thing for them to do was to work together. 7-10 of them working together could easily catch the three that were in the break (who weren't working together too terribly well). but instead they all chose to attack eachother one at a time. foolish because alone, or even in two's and three's they weren't likely to catch three fast guys. so, they kept working each other over much to my delight. a few attacks went on the last lap and i caught one not so quick acceleration and used it to get myself up to speed. when he floundered in the wind i attacked him and i was gone, soloing in for 4th place.
in the break ian was 1st, emde 2nd and mcdirmid 3rd. not a bad finish.
