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👌

Big race today, lots of teams. So the plan was to get Francis into the first break, as we knew most would be watching me after my recent wins. But it didn't quite go to plan, as a break didn't really go at the beginning. And my chain came off and got stuck and I had to stop and fix it. So I had to chase hard to get back on, as the peloton had put the hammer down. Managed to rejoin the back of the group as they hit the first climb, then worked my way back to the front. Then had a bit of time to assess the situation. There was just a group of 3 up the road by 20 secs. So tried to get Francis away again, but it still didn't work. So I thought I would have a go, so I attacked hard after a fast descent. Initially a group of 4 came with me, and then we quickly caught the 3 in front. But no one was working with me so I decided to go again. Got away on my own with 35km left to go. I knew the roads well so thought I would give it a go. The moto was given me good time checks. I had a group of 4 - 30 secs back and the peloton about a minute. So I just paced myself, it got close on the last climb, as it was in to the headwind, and they got the gap down to 18 secs. But I kept calm, and then push really hard after the climb. Then the moto was telling me I was pulling out about a sec, each km. And with 5 km to go I had the gap back out to 30 secs. So I knew I was safe. Got the clean sweep as I won the climber prize as well. #prettypleasewiththatone

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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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