long course 70 miler

I had a few days off and started back swimming a few days after austria. Everyy one was stoked for me back in pembs and the support I had had on facebook with people tracking me was unexpected and over whelming. Did a quick 50 the following weekend then turned up at the start of the long course 70 mile bike with fabulous and lloydy. I wasn’t an official entrant and was tagging along for the ride . The plan was a 1 ,2 for nbcc with me flogging myself to break everyone else and leaving the two boys to fight out first and second on the run in.

we left tenby and made our way up to the front group. The first plan was for the 3 of us to hit the front and just ride away from them.we let the race settle down for the first 5 miles then we hit the front and strung them out a bit. The line quickly went single file and by castlemartin we had thinned the lead group down to 10 . lloydy came off at the sand at fresh west so we waited for him then I chased back up to the leaders dragging lloydy and fab with me.its only the second time I have felt really good on the bike this year ,the first time being the tour of pembs.

As soon as we caught them I attacked . I’d told nbcc not to do any chasing in a change of tactics and we’ll let them do the work. I let them pull me back after 2 or 3 miles, quick breather at the back , check the boys were ok then go again.by the descent off the ridgeway we had blown everyone away bar one. Richard wilder went passed us on the descent into st flo, he was doing the full 112miler and I went after him. Stuck on his wheel for a bit ,but the boys were too far behind and weren’t willing to match it so I dropped back. There were now only 4 of us in the lead group of the 70 milers. Fabulous,lloydy ,myself and random one.

Randon one attacked on the climb out of carew and we watched him go. It was a gamble but I reckoned he’d blow before the finish. His plan was to try to hold richards wheel to pull him away from us .neither happened. By the climb into narberth he was caught and dropped. I was struggling now but my work was done. We pressed on the boys dropped me for a while around the back leg .at the princes gate food stop I chugged aload of water and caught them back up. Gave them both a bollocking for easing off ,the race wasn’t won yet and random one was still a threat. Lloydy came with me and we went hard up st brides. I dropped off then and waited for fabulous .told lloydy to go on and take the win. I’d make sure fab got second. Fab and I rode in and a good time was had by all. Richard wilder had come in a few mins b 4 us as had ollie. The mighty daryll john came in at 5 hrs 40 which made me pay attention with nick coming in just after him

nick looked a bit forlorn. He’s had a tough season with set back after setback. It was a hard day in the saddle. I got on camera in my full lycra Austrian lederhausein . Few photos for my adorning fan base . Then home . Really enjoyed today , felt great and enjoyed a road race of sorts