Steven Ludford says:

I had a blast tonight. Told everyone I was going to take it easy, I meant it at the time, then the race started. I recognised the riders around me at the start and felt it was a good group, then I feel I was instrumental in helping drag us up to the next group and then dragging this new group to the next group … I reckon we had 12 riders at one point so I started to mingle in the pack as the orange/red bits on the profile approached us. It was already clear this group was racing for 11th place, knowing the hills would be my Achilles’s Heel I wondered (without communication) how Andy_UP was feeling. Andy helped me up one rise as gaps appeared then over the top I hammered down and rejoined the others hoping Andy would see my 0.0w/kg message in time … but no … his engine self combusted all over the carriageway at the same time as mine and we just looked at each other and shrugged ready for the ride home. I had all but given up as I saw “M_Kali” making up a lot of ground, “Here we go again” I thought, another race incoming … it was actually a lot of fun as we took chunks of power out of each other, I let Kali lead us to the line, I had to, then suprised even myself with a long standing effort to take it at the line. Enjoyed tonight.

Torben Adolph says:

What a race 🙂

Was in the top10 group from the start but ended in a group that’s not working very good and halfway the dinne decided it was time to return the same way it went in :-p
Needed a 5 min rest but lost my position. But manage to fight my way back from 27th to 21th position – just under 2 km from the finish line
Need to find a better working group next time 😉

Henrik Jørgensen says:

The endless series of flat routes continues🤗 But after Tuesday’s success for me with two sprint victories over Hinsbergen himself, I went into this race with a good amount of confidence. But when I saw the start list I was already tired. with Juan, Procat and that Italian guy who has been disqualified before for not posting data, but who smashes all opposition. I could see that just a top 3 would be legitimately difficult. This also turned out to be true. From the first second, a really strong group set off on the long descending first part of the route. Strong riders like Nelson, Karel, Procat etc came along. To my great surprise, Juan was not there. But after about 3-4 km he suddenly appeared on the screen in the top 10. It later turned out that he had started 45 seconds late. However, it was not long before he joined the front group. Could see that he was at around 6-7 w/kg all the way up to us. Next, there was a reasonable gathering of the group until we started to hit the small climbs that came at regular intervals. Thus, the separation had begun. I tried to make a difference on the small climbs but everyone quickly came back when it went downhill again. And then the inevitable happened, of course, that Juan and Procat started to move on. It was insane surges with +8w/kg over long periods and people dropped like flies. I tried to keep up, but quickly had to realize that it was utopia to think I could keep up with that pace. So I had to give up and let them sail away. I was now in no man’s land with two riders in front of me by about 200m and two chasing riders behind me by about 150m. It was out of the question that I could pick up the front ones myself, and I judged that even if I let myself fall back to Karel and Nelson who were behind me, we couldn’t pick up the front ones anyway, so I decided to try to finish it on own hand, and drive home at my own pace. I managed to keep the two behind me all the way to the finish line, where I was able to grab 3rd place, which was the maximum I could expect in advance.

Lyndon Wright says:

super race tonight had the misfortune of being late to the start or should I say trouble with loading rouvy up. so had to chase all the way, pleased how it went. thanks for putting on the race