Red Hill Funride

The first league funride of the season, and the first time we’d be starting in the elite bunch. Would we be able to hang on??

I got myself to the front of the bunch early since the climb starts only 2k’s from the start. Unfortunately the pace was a little too hot for what I had in my legs this morning. I went over the top in what became the 2nd bunch on the road. There wasn’t a great deal of effective working together though, and it was clear that we weren’t going to catch the guys up the road. I settled into an easy rhythm and we ascended Red Hill for the 2nd time at a very moderate tempo. Until some fuckwit (who isn’t riding the funride) decides to join our bunch, and then stop dead in front of me. Nick brakes quickly but falls over as he can’t avoid the back wheel of the aforementioned moron.

I was hardly moving forward at all as I fell, so there was more bruising than roasties, but my left shoe got a nasty graze, and my previously pristine STIs got scratched. Not knowing whether I’d done any proper damage to knees or anything, and feeling rather tender on the one knee, I thought I’d call it a day and cruise back to the start. A rather inauspicious start to the league season