"DaveB" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:Good turnout today with 9 leaving Doncaster and a late Blah time
trialling till he caught us just before the main climb. Talk about a
perfect day for a ride.
After dropping some weight and a decent amount of time trial practice at
Kew lately I decided I'd have a decent crack at my time for the
Warrandyte Climb. I was aiming for under 16 minutes with the plan being
to break my PB next week. I went out hard and was surprised TimC didn't
fall off his bike in shock when I overtook him near the start. I
generally go easy ont he first half and hard on the second but figured
that wasn't going to cut it. At the halfway mark I was well under time,
and then I hammered myself to the end only to see a time of 15:32, I'd
broken 16mins but missed my PB by 2 seconds (or so I thought). I was
absolutely spent, as the witnesses at the top will attest. It must have
been 3-4 minutes before I could even breathe properly.
The rest of the ride was standard fare, although I was shocked at
Hurstbridge where at two separate roundabouts the cars behind Con and I
stayed there till we got through. And the second shock was at Diamond
Creek where I had to do a right turn on a roundabout in front of
Commodore Club group and they all gave way to me (surely I was dreaming).
Anyway after getting home I started logging my stats and realised my old
PB for Warrandyte was 15:40. I'd broken it by 8 seconds without even
knowing it. WooHoo!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂 Of course that's nothing compared to
Gags's effort but it's made my day, and all that effort was worth it.
DaveB
As Dave mentioned, I did a PB today on the Warrandyte climb. Started out at
what I thought was a pretty good pace until Dutch went past me. Jumped onto
his wheel and followed him for a couple of minutes but then he started to
fade..........had to decide what to do and went for the "have a crack"
option. Went past Dutch and lifted up a notch. Was going pretty well but
soon heard someone behind me (guessed it was GPL or Ess). Ended up being
GPL and he seemed to hang back around 5 metres or so until I was on one of
the steeper bits and then built up some speed so that he went by me pretty
quickly (I'm onto your game Llama boy!!!!!). I stayed with him for about
40m or so up to the top of the rise that we were on but then realised that I
was going to bonk if I kept that up for too long so I eased back a bit.
Basically smashed myself to the top and when I looked at the watch, it was
12:45......wooot!!! I am pretty sure that my previous best was 13:55 or
something that I did one time with Chris and Lindsay so I smashed that one.
I put it down to me losing about 5kg or so in the last 3 months or so and
doing a few hills on the 79.2 inch geared fixie.
Coffee was good and we seemed to take a bit longer than usual (probably the
great weather). Got going again and GPL went off the front for the Team TT.
The rest of us bunched up and waited for TimC and then started going. There
was a car sitting behind us and we were going pretty slow when Blah decided
to crank the pace and I followed him. We were hooting along and slowly
started to haul in GPL. I took a turn on the front and as I got within
about 15m or so of GPL, he got out of the saddle and tried to break away
again. He must have forgotten about the laws of gravity though that say
that my 97kg on a downhill will go quicker than his 72kg!!! (also, I knew
that once I bridged over to his wheel, I would get a rest). Managed to get
on his wheel and then wheelsucked for a couple of km before
"chooooowwwooooooo" - the BR train left the station and GPL didn't have a
ticket.....hehehe. Blah, Ess, and I ended up catching up with Con and DaveB
about 500m before the last roundabout before the rest stop and we were all
pretty stuffed by the time we stopped.
A rush of blood through Diamond Creek saw Dutchy draft a truck for a bit and
then we did the last climb before the run into Greensborough. I sat on
GPL's wheel at the start of the climb and about two thirds of the way up he
started waving his right elbow like a busted wing. I was busting a lung
just hanging onto his wheel and there was no way I was falling for the "you
go round now and I'll sit on your wheel and go past you just before the top
of the hill" routine so I declined the invitation. The next turning lane,
GPL actually pulled over so I had to go past and managed to stay in front of
him till the top of the hill (chalk one up for the gravitationally
challenged crew).
Of course GPL will bleat (do llamas bleat??) about having a dodgy chain or
something but it only seemed to be dodgy when we passed him on the TTT and
when I was sitting on his wheel going up the hill 😉 Besides, I see your
dodgy chain and raise you a dodgy bike.........hehehehe.
Ride On,
Gags (sorry for the gloating, but I doubt GPL will let it happen again!!!!!)
