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Fri, 28 Jan 2005

Audax, MTB and Track - 12:39
I went mountain bike riding on Australia day, quite a humbling experience. Majura is much more technical than I remember. I was most impressed by the silky smoothness of Ben Mc Duff on the ST. After riding around Rachel and I went to a BBQ at Michelle's. I had a Barcardi Breezer and Vodka cruiser, which turned out to be pretty good preparation for the crit that night. The coolers knocked me right out and I was forced to nap on the couch.
Neil came over and Rachel, Neil and I headed off to Kingo for the crit. I felt pretty good and rode in the front ten or so for most of the race. I put myself in the right place for the sprint, but my sixth sense kicked on three corners to go. I left a gap of two or three lengths, lucky that as the two guys in front of me clipped pedals and their wheels were jumping about the place. Of course this left me with a gap to close on the last lap and I just could not manage to get back to the three or four sprint contestants. I ended up finishing in the top ten somewhere.
The Audax Alpine Classic went well, but my weight did not move down too much. How can that be after riding 60km one day then 200km the next, Steve, Mike and Richard rode well, getting to the summits before me. It was fun to rip into Bright as a fast bunch. On the way from Bright to the base of Buffalo we picked up a big bunch of about 20, then soon disintegrated as the slope increased.
Neil and I are off to race at Goulburn tonight, hopefully I get my sprint back by next weekend when we visit Dunc Gray again.
Anyhow I'm less than 79 target 74

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