Steven - Day 12

Godley Head loop - Awesome. This may well become part of my weekly schedule when i get back to Christchurch. My legs weren't working initially but after about 20 minutes they warmed up and it felt like my old fell running days - not fast but at least it felt relaxed and not like hard work.
The forecast southerly arrived as we left which made the ultra friendly ride to the Rakaia bridge rather cold.
After the that more or less the whole group worked together in a big chaingang which was good fun and great feeling of being in this together. Jo had a mechanical so i stopped to pull her back to the group. It warmed me up.
As we started out after lunch I noticed I had a puncture. Gordo offered to wait but I said I was happy for them to go and I'd TT up. I thought that meant they wouldn't go hard till I got on. Oh how wrong was I. Unbeknown to me Clas did a massive pull initially to warm up. I headed off just going steady. First caught Jo and she wanted to be on her own. I could see various riders ahead and kept thinking it must be Gordo and Scott. Each time it wasn't and I realised I'd have to start to push a little more.
I came by Rob and he jumped on my wheel. Then Lee and Rob - no idea whether they got on. Rob pulled round and did a turn on the front. I thought "we'll catch them super quick now!" I did my next turn and then never saw Rob again. I was now TTing hard and finally I saw the front group. They were a mere 100m off for so long it was demoralising. When I caught them I found them in a well organised chaingang. I sat in at the back for a few turns and then jumped in. It was great fun and they were shifting. Made me realise I'd done well to catch them at all. It was great fun working hard in a small group like that and Geraldine arrived long before I expected.
Headed straight to the pool with Gordo, Tara and Petro for 3k swim. Petro did well to churn out a 6k. I decided against it guessing I was far enough ahead on the points for it not to matter.