I had my first race of the season today - learnt an important lesson (you can't hydrate enough before a race). I got into a break of 6 within the first Km of a 95km race. I did more than my share in the break and we had a three minute lead with half a lap to go (and feeling strong) - it was then I hit the wall; I've never been drunk and was told I now know what it feels like - you're concious of everything around you but are removed from it; all power goes out of you and it takes immense efforts of concentration to just stay on the bike. The up shot was that I went from hero to zero in the space of about 500m.
Ironically, it was the best race I've had by a long shot. I wanted a really hard workout and that's exactly what I got; as the old saying goes, 'what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.'
Would love to tell you how Marek, Luke and Dave got on, but I was only barely concious, let alone coherent. I will look forward to reading the race report of someone that remembers the last lap.
