The final night in the Oulton Park series was played out yesterday evening in the same furious fashion that we have all come accustomed to over the past 3 weeks.
Proceedings started with me doing a unprepared attack from the gun which ended in Ryan Mullen jumping to me and then very quickly dropping me in the space of a few hundred metres. It was my own fault as my legs just weren't ready and had no chance of getting on Ryan's wheel and that was it...away he went and was never seen again, eventually winning the race from a small group who had joined him later in the race.
The break that joined Ryan jumped very early as well and a tactical disaster ended up with no Century riders being present. A few of us tried in vain to bridge the gap but to no avail, the wind on the top side of the course was too strong for riders in 2's or 3's to get across the ever widening gap (they lapped the second race!).
After futile and wasted attempts from a few of us we knuckled down to dragging some of the stragglers from the early break away and with 4 laps to go the Century train worked hard as possible to cut the deficit. Tim and Ritchie did a great effort on the final lap but tactics misfired again and the hard work of the previous 4 laps was wasted. Sean managed to get 2nd in the bunch gallop, but the rest of our legs were tired from the wasted lead out train.
The other races featured Hannah McDonald (doing her first race), Claudia WITZIG, Peter Grace, Ian Kendal, Simon Higgins, Paul Davies, Duff Fawcett, Steve Webster, Paul Grindley, Vince Bennett. Our race had Tim, Ritche, Andy, Sean, Danny, Aki, Phil and Graeme.
Sorry for the lack of detail in the other races as they start and finish as we are racing.
Oh and Life member Andy Bennett formerly World Firefighter Road Race Champion won the middle age mans race! Chapeau Andy!
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