You know that feeling when you are at the front of the group, putting an effort to keep the pace of the group and you hear someone in the group chatting effortlessly?
Well, you know your day is going to be a hard one when the opposite happens.
That is, someone is in the front, ie. Dai in this ride, chatting effortlessly with Robbie, while you are sitting on his wheel out of breath and fully focussed on not losing his wheel.
The sting is when you realise he is riding on the big chainring. Which wouldn’t be anything special if it wasn’t because we were climbing Effingham. And yes, I know Effingham is not the steepest of the climb but I was on the small chainring from even before the climb started.
I knew I was definitely up for a hard day.
So hard that GC Denis smelled blood and started to go for the intermediate sprints.
Almost killed myself to stay on Dai and GC Denis’ wheel up Leith Hill and they beat me up Juniper by quite some margin.
Still, the best sign that I had a bad day is that GC Denis finished the ride with more sprint points than me.
It is going to take a long time to recover from this.
The ride in Strava: https://www.strava.com/activities/14020182697/
Take care of yourself
Javier Arias González
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