Steven - Day 11

Another solid day at Epic. Gordo reckons he's seeing signs that I'm getting tired. He heard me curse my favourite gear on the KOM climb since it's not bedding with my new chain. Thats the gear I wanted and I wasn't happy. I nearly apologised to those around me. The heat was on on the climb so I decided to save my energy. I stuck with Johns repeated attacks and soon it was just the four of us (john, scott, clas and me). When Clas went I didn't follow. John eventually bridged up leaving me with Scott. Scott on your wheel on a KOM is a worrying thing. A cunning competitor. On the decent I did pop a couple of bottles to try and delay him ! He made his move and bridged up. I was happy to roll over without too much effort. Scott managed to beat John to the top !
The ride through to lunch was pretty solid with various people taking pulls and keeping the pace up. I did my bit but later on Gordo stopped me coming through telling me I could have my fun after lunch we should get everyone there together. Then John pulled through and ramped it up.
At lunch I established that my plans for tomorrow may not work and that if I got back quick I could get my 25k run done. I missed the first group heading off and had to TT 10k to catch them so i decided just to go straight by and TT all the way home. Ended with 182k in 5:20 .. not too shabby.
More or less straight out for 25k round and round Hagley Park.