| Supposed to be a team time trial with beautiful. Plan was me to do down hill sections and swap over uphills 2min on/15sec off (me) 15sec on/2min off (beautiful). Stuffed it from the start. Me out of the saddle, clicking gears, beautiful not there. Watching, thought she was back on, down on the tt bars, starting ripping it. Thought I could see her shadow (it was mine, beautiful yelling to slow down but I couldn't hear). Looked back at 5km...no beautiful. Waited maybe 45 seconds until beautiful caught up, smiled, frown back, beautiful totally lactic. Took another 10km to get rid of lactic acid, then on fire for last lap. Only averaged 33.5kph over 35km. Still quicker than a babble ride, so nothing lost. |
