Muckers Thursday Night Warm Up Race. 16/02/23
Rouvy route used: GFNY Cozumel 30 km | 18.84 miles | 154.2 ft
Route 1 from the GFNY Challenge | Hard
32 Registered | 18 Finishers | 3 dnf | 11 dns
Hoping everyone had noticed a week back that I had changed the start time of this race to 5 minutes earlier, I joined the race and saw 20 other riders waiting for the start. It’s always difficult to get the timing just right for the first race of the night so it allows everyone to finish in time for the second race, but also not leaving all the fastest riders sitting around for ages and getting cold! So almost 19 miles, no real hills, chance of a draft or two but not on the TT bike…… 🤔🤔🤔🤔 55 minutes it is then and not 50!
“hinsbergen” won this race with a very impressive time of 43:08.9 but, very weirdly, ROUVY put “feelslikemonday” in 2nd with a time, that on paper, reads faster with 43:08.3?? I hope one of you can maybe expalin what happened??
Bronze went to the hard to type, but ever consistent “PatrykS_Gdynia_PL“, very closely followed by “wurstrolle_81” in 4th, followed 30 seconds later by “Tom-MWW” to round out the top 5 and just under 2 minutes away from the winner.
6th, and the first of three muckersworldwide riders in the top 10 was “tomlerieger” with team mate “Svard” just 4 seconds behind. Another 4 seconds later came “SwissChris69” in 8th, “chorus” in 9th, then finally the 10th spot went to muckersworldwide rider “Andy_UP” who I was almost fighting with for top 10 till he stopped playing and put in his usual very strong finish!
Referring back to the start of this blog, Luckily I wasn’t too far off with my timings as the rider who finished last, finished in 54:17.10 so I was happy with the time change!
Please comment if you get the chance as we do have some close finishing in this one and a strange 1st and 2nd classification.
Cheers for now.
very happy with my12th place. For a while it was me, Andy_UP and ThomasWCT but at a certain point i felt we needed to hurry up as the group behind were closing in too fast. so I put an effort in and Andy stayed with me but we dropped Thomas. So it looked like a 2 way fight for 10th!! Then Manuel put a massive effort in from the group behind to bridge over the gap and join me and Andy. so we are now back to a three way fight and I’m now getting tired!! I tried a cheeky little “sprint” about 2 miles out to see if I could create a gap , which I did but then I hit a brick wall and when they both came past, I couldn’t stay with them. Really good race though which you had to be drafting in.
I did beat feelslikemonday in the sprint, Inguess he must have had a late start which explains his faster time?
Thanks Chris. That makes sense then. The result is the order past the finish line, even if you got on a few seconds too late and set an overall faster time. basically, the way it should be. Thanks.