Took it out easy after a 25 minute warmup. A bit of ice & snow on road, but no issues. A fast group from DRP took off the front, I settled into 10th or so - no sign of Ken or Brian, my usual M50 targets. About halfway got reeled in and passed by a group of three, elected not to press a chase this early, but feeling comfortable. With about 3km to go I began to open up the stride a bit and one by one reeled those three back in and passed them. Hard effort, but not redlining, opened an insurmountable gap by the time we hit the downhill, but the next target was too far away at this point. Finished strong, just missing 42, about half a minute off my 10k PR.
Steve & George there, Lynn on sidelines again.
9th of 71, 2nd M50
Moved up to
4th in the seasons point series - 8 races down, 4 to go - I could conceivably move to the top with solid performances.
{edit} - wow that GPS track shows me cutting a lot of corners... really, I didn't, honest...