Last week's training was good and I am getting use to everything here, the food, the roads, the winds etc. The race over the weekend was not very good. On Saturday, the rain came and went and came and went, so the race organisers have to stop and continue the race several times. The race stopped for a short while when the rain got heavier and we waited for about 5mins before the organisers decide to continue the race for another 30mins(race suppose to be 50mins, and we already rode 30mins). So the race went on and i felt really good, despite getting on a bad start, having to close many gaps in the strong winds as I AGAIN didn't start at the front. This time I forced my way to the front, and with about 10mins to go, I broke away alone, opened a gap about 1/4 of the course. The pack didn' t think i was strong enough, because I was reeled back many times during the start of the race. This time I stayed up for 2 laps, and when the A graders came by, I leeched on them. The gap was opening up slowly, but guess what, the rain came and they stopped the race. haha..
Sunday's race was at Torquay Bay and it reminded me of the Yew Tee "hotdog" crit, but it was L-shape hotdog this time. I know it's not my cup of tea, but I decided to use it as training because it required a lot of accelerations and I really suck at it. And so the race went on, I was drafting behind this big guy, really huge fella which cannot U-turn and always open a gap at every U-turn. It was more tiring then anything to follow him because he was not so "smooth". I was getting really tired, and saw that david was the last guy behind alone, about 20m away, just relaxing and i decided to join him. We worked together and slowly inch closer to the pack. More people dropped back to us and we soon have 4 riders, but they were not working. I made a move to bridge up to the group ahead. At this point, we were about 20mins into the race, and I took my time to recover. Then I decided to attack. I did it the first time, and lasted about 1/2 a lap, then another time, lasted 1 lap, then another time, 2 laps. I was really tired but it was good training. With 5 mins to go, I went again, hard before the U-turn and lasted 4 laps, and there was just 2 laps to go. I didn't finish in a good place again, but I felt strong.
Ok, enough of race updates.
Yesterday I rode a very very long ride and went to the Great Ocean Road by myself. I almost got lost on the way there but manage to find my way in the end. The GOR was not as windy as I thought it would be, but the view and scenery was really awesome. I've never come across anything like that before, so it was very nice to ride by the ocean. I also came across a 20mins climb that felt like GAP, and it was a good training climb, too bad that its too far from home. So I rode 170km yesterday and felt really satisfied.
I went to the gym today, and my weight was 59.6kg, not a very good sign because I think im losing weight very rapidly. Hope i dun lose the muscles.
Ok time to sleep now. good night my friends. Will update soon and I hope to race better this weekend and learn more in the coming weeks.
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