Training Ride 85 - 2025 - Early Birthday bike ride, as it was beautiful out there today- 17c☀️👌

Trainer 74 - 2025 - After a day's work, so it was ok

Trainer 73 - 2025 - That was a little better😁

Training Ride 83 - 2025 - To nice not too ☀️😁

Training Ride 82 - Very slow spin with 'Flats'  but I'm riding my bike, so that's great fun. Thanks again Paul👌


Firstly a massive thank you to Yannick as it wouldn't have be possible without him.

Had time to do a warm up lap, as it was very windy and knew it would be important to find out the direction of it. It had a 4km section that was a block headwind, it was crazy, it was like doing a 4km climb every lap. There was a nice section with a tailwind over a small rise. So knew I wouldn't be able to do a solo break, but possibly a chance with two or more. 
The race started and I was keeping calm to see what would happen, a few little attacks but nothing. Then as we hit the headwind section, there was one attack, then my good friend Yannick put in another attack, no-one went with him, so I just sat on any attempt to catch him to give him a gap. As I thought if I could get over to him on my own, we would possibly stand a chance, as he is a great Time Trailist. So the gap opened to about 30secs. Then we turned,there is a little rise over the start/Finish. The next two sections were a cross tailwind and the full tailwind, so I thought if I could open a big enough gap before we hit the headwind, we would stand a chance as it would be difficult for them to shut the gap and they would start looking at each other. So I  dropped to the back of the pack and launch an attack, no-one could hold the wheel  and I was clear. So I continued, got straight over to Yannick, and just went full gas, knowing I had to get the gap out. We were working really well, and on the tailwind section, I put in a big turn and told him just to sit in the wheel. It was working we had a good gap by the time we turned into the headwind. We did short turns and was really keeping a good speed, despite the strength of the wind. I noticed two riders tried to get over but couldn't make it. So I knew now that if we kept a steady pace we should be ok, as there would be times when they would slow as they looked at each other. So that was it, we worked really well together and after another few laps we had nearly a 2min lead.
So on the last lap we had time to enjoy it, and I said we should cross the line together, which we did. But the organiser and Yannick gave me the win, which was really nice. So I think that's it the season, and once again a massive thanks to all the organisers, who without them in these strange time, we would not have be able to do any races.

Mostly Cloudy, 14°C, Feels like 14°C, Humidity 75%, Wind 28km/h from SW - by Klimat.app

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Training Ride 85 - 2025 - Early Birthday bike ride, as it was beautiful out there today- 17c☀️👌

Trainer 74 - 2025 - After a day's work, so it was ok

Trainer 73 - 2025 - That was a little better😁

Training Ride 83 - 2025 - To nice not too ☀️😁

Training Ride 82 - Very slow spin with 'Flats' but I'm riding my bike, so that's great fun. Thanks again Paul👌

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