Just one more reason....

... to NOT race road anymore!!!  But i figured that i could use some intensity and thought i would give it a try....

 hot humid day with lots of T-showers rolling through.. we were delayed by 20min before starting....

 got going with lightening in the distance... and did 1.5 of the scheduled 9 before the commissaires rolled up and told us to take a delay and find shelter... 

 got going... again... rained, lightening and thunder... Commissaires told us that we would be doing 6 more laps rather than 7 more... so down 1 lap...did 3.5 laps before they rolled up to us at the feed zone (half way through) and told us that this was the bell lap and that we were to sprint for the line... some confusion, re-asking and clarification was passed through the peleton before we realized that we had 6km of racing left...
all this discussion / info passing / clarification happened after a VinylBilt guy took a flyer .... not sure if he was at the back and was told the news first and went expecting it to take time to pass the word and he could get away... but he had a good lead on us when we started going hard again.... got to the top of the hill (about 3km left) at 3rd wheel and no one really wanted to go... so we rounded the corner with 2km to go and with the Flyer Guy still out front with 300m on us, i decided that he shouldn't win that way and chased him down... caught him and no-one would pull through, sat up a bit... no-one, went again and then got rushed by the group of about 20 with 400m to go....

Does it look like i had fun???