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Thu, 19 May 2005

Coota Haycarters - 11:24
Details on the Coota Haycartes, maybe even results
It seems to me the CCC and even the NSW Cycling Federation are pretty damn slack with results. I mean, all you get is the top ten, fastest time and that's about it. When I compare this with the excellent work on CORC and the ACT Vets I reckon the effort is a bit weak. But then again, my bunch was 30-40 strong coming over the line, it must be pretty difficult to get all those numbers. I think there was 203 riders in total at the Haycartes, all coming over the line within a few minutes of the winner
Mike asked me about the Coota Haycarters, so i got writing in an e-mail. In the absence of extensive blogging on my part, I'll reproduce the race in my own words here Well, the short of it is my bunch (12 min) won and I was not there. I got dropped at about half way when I went through a nasty feeling really bad patch. The bad bit is I was feeling really good (doing all my turns etc) before the bad patch and I was also really good after the bad patch when I jumped in with block and scratch and rode the last 25-30km of the race at a really fast pace. So, I'm really dark about getting dropped, but in retrospect my legs have been killing me ever since the end of the race, so I did work hard. Pete Harding lasted a bit longer in the 12 minute bunch, but I went flying past him tagged onto the scratch men and he could not get on. Of course Neil through the race was too easy, but then again he was only one bunch behind mine, maybe he should have got block. Mike Rawlin was one bunch ahead of me (18min) I think, he was there at the finish. It was good fun when it was done, we get to do it all over again with two races in Wagga on the 28th and 29th (Saturday race is 120km) So, I hope I'm going to be on a very good day.

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