The day looked like it was going to be a beauty with hardly any wind and no rain, to make things even better there was also no snow like there was on this stage last year. The legs were feeling pretty good today so I wanted to see if i couldn't sneak away in anything early on. The stage has a KOM about 25km in which i struggle on every year and I had the good oil that the move wasn't going until after the climb.
Being me, I followed a few moves before the climb but nothing stuck and then battled over the KOM. The move went a fair bit after the climb and never got more than 90seconds as there was a high gc man there and a little angry man sitting on and popping the sprint primes...onya scotty...hate!!!!!
The race split up when the climbing started which meant it was time to deploy the parachute and make it to the finish which was done without too much drama. We did have a bit of a disaster of a feed earlier on in the day though, as soon as the 50km board was passed i went back for some jam sammies and fudge and a bottle and then when i got back it was a procession of each of my team mates going back 1 at a time. The problem with no radios is its hard organise collective feeding. It was quite funny to watch, dont think we could have planned it worse.
after the stage we had to first change a wheel on the car, when i say we i mean Paul but he did a good job once we realised it was probably best the car had no riders in it whilst up on jacks. We then headed to Nancy and Chubs holiday house in Arrowtown for whitebait fritters and a cold speights. It was almost too hot to sit in the sun and the location was mint....couldn't have got much better really
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