It’s been great, I don’t really know anyone but have felt welcome and enjoyed it loads so far. Thanks for organising Robbo.
Slept like the dead last night.
The starts are always tough, but yesterday was really hard. Think I had to do a 5-600W effort to get onto the back of a group and that was my legs quivering for the rest of the race.
I was in a small group over the first climb, then I saw OopNorth watts drop and thought it was a technical issue only to see come screaming passed on a MTB…shortly followed by Robbo.
My tactics so far have been go pretty hard from the terrifying GO GO GO call, see what group I end up in, try and do my share of work if the legs allow, attack randomly to keep others (and most importantly myself) guessing and then up the watts by about 1% for my “sprint”.
To all the double fanners out there….. is it worth it? Sweated buckets last night.
Steve Scott