Usual deal, 8pm kick-off, forty times around 2.2km with a uphill finish line followed by a lot of corners and a long downhill straight – yippee!! I ended up bringing forward the rest week, so was feeling rather fresh for Fouesnant. Although obviously not as fresh as the under-raced Mr Barnes – very frisky for somebody who got out of his car 15mins before the start, he proceeded to start attacking the be-jeepers out of everybody. Before long he was away with one other guy, meanwhile I had managed to meet Greg in the third group.
About 70km into it and after a lot of hard work we had managed to get a couple of primes (gotta love how they roll out the primes for the groups out the back too, kinda disrupts chasing efforts though) and retrieve Mr Barnes and most of the people in between, somewhat surprised to find there were only four up the road – three from VS Quimper and one other!! At 50 seconds …So that was the race gone really, tried to lead out Greg but just got well boxed in by somebody swinging right across the road into the last corner, happily Greg managed to sort himself out and crack the top ten, I may have just cracked the top twenty for some ice-cream money.
Twenty metre warm-down and it was foot to the floor back to chez Barnes to try and catch the end of the football, and I believe lights out at 1:30am and probably asleep by 3am!!
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