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Careflight Woodford Glenbrook
First ever race
Sticky Front Wheel
Found a good picture of me from the Marathon-Photos site. At about 5kms from the finish, I overtook someone and collected a large stick in the front wheel. Lots of crunching noises and bits of stick flying through the air, and somehow, I smashed it to pieces and kept on going. Got to the finish and found a large section of stick still threaded though the spokes - you can see it in the photo. And when I think of what could have happened...
2009 - Careflight Woodford to Glenbrook
Category: 30-39
OVERALL
I’d not ridden for 2 weeks due to health and rain. Struck down with the flu two weeks ago, I was sure I’d be fine by this event. I started to feel much better 1-2 days prior but am still far from 100%. My race time of 1:03 is faster than last year (1:07) but not close to my easily achievable goal of under 1 hour. If you divide my position (324) by the total active riders (578) and multiply by 100 you get 56. Which means I came 56/100. That’s a significant worse than last year (34/100). My ranking has slipped by 22% effectively.