Riding against a brick wall

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Hung my life on to the "original" breakaway bunch for 60odd kms until the Kulamavu showed her majestic climbs. Didn't want to burn myself out and stuck to my plan. 

Target was a sub 6.5hr finish! Glad i exceeded by just 2 mins. 

Big kudos to KEG bikers for organising such a fantastic event!

From having a proper neutral zone of 3km to move the peloton safely out of the kottayam city, to manning every junction, you guys did fantastic! 

Have you ever seen volunteers (unknown people) running next to you in a race (not your teammates), collecting your bidons, filling water, adding ors and running behind you while you climb and passing on the bidon to you safely? You don't even drop 1s in your timing. I had a person snatch my bottle, fill ors while I kept riding, and then a descent arrived which meant I was doing 40ish. This person drove his car for almost 2km, overtook me by quite some distance, parked his car safely, handed over the bidon safely, after i apologised, the gentleman said, "oh no worries we are here to help you". Man, you guys moved me! 

Not just that, every junction was manned by cops and volunteers, every hard rumbler strip had volunteers flashing lights to make sure we cross it safe, every diversion had a volutneer who moved us to the right direction and also cheer us! This is something I've never seen anywhere! Also special thanks to all the KEG and TBC volunteers, Lapone Sports, UnitedByCycling, Anu chechi, and Boby chettan for all the running they did!

Big thanks to RENJU AeroSports | RaceFit Coaching, Saiju DS | RaceFit Coaching, Santhosh RS | RaceFit Coaching , Sankar  Sivarajan | RaceFit Coaching  for all the training, killing me at every climb whenever we trained together in Trivandrum! 

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