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Sid Standard RR- National Series- finished nowhere


Straight after Paris Roubaix was a British Cycling training camp down in Newport. We drove all the way there Sunday night. I was soooooo tired Monday, but we did a track session and a road ride. I was suffering for the whole camp, especially on the track (team pursuit). Its not pleasant but at least its only training.

Anyway we went home friday evening and I had a huge dinner, in fact I gorged myself pretty much all weekend. I see it as a belated Roubaix celebration. By the following Tuesday my legs lost some of the definition from the camp but I can build that up again for Road Nationals. 

Me chasing down a break
Saturday was a recovery ride, 1:30, and Sunday was the race. I was pretty tired but that was expected. I needed to defend my national series lead, so I ended up doing a lot of chasing during the race. It was a flat race and no wind so that made it hard for breaks to stay away. In the last lap it was all together except for Joe Perrett who had attacked an earlier break. I tried to attack but was watched by Joe's Glendene team mates. It ended up a sprint but I got caught behind 2 crashes and rolled home way down (over 20th place).


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