First blood.

Nailed my first win for the season. 30km criterium at Heffron park. What made it special was the way in which it was done. I attacked with 10 laps to go, just put my head down and pounded away. Managed to drag along one friend who just wheel sucked and didn't help at all - so with 8 laps to go I attacked him and got him off my wheel. Now i'm in no mans land with a pack of angry riders chasing after me.

One guy managed to bridge the gap to me and dragged old WheelSuck with him - we worked well together and kept the gap on the bunch. Then another rider bridged the gap and we had a powerful trio - and one WheelSuck. With 5 laps to go I was starting to get pretty tired. The last guy who joined us did a few big turns, and we lost the other worker - but not WheelSuck.

2 laps to go and we knew we had it in the bag. I held second wheel coming onto the straight with WheelSuck glued behind me. Started my sprint a little late as I was hoping WheelSuck would try and bolt and go on his own - but true to his name - he just sucked.

Wound up a big sprint and thought I had it in the bag easy, but ole WheelSuck was well rested and started to make ground rapidly - i continued on my sprint and manage to hold him off by around a wheel length.

Great victory - couldn't be happier. NP 314W which i'm very happy about. Commissaire's suitably bumped us up a category so we'll be riding with the fast boys next time...

White vertical line shows where I attacked!!!

You can see where I had to restart my sprint - note the spike in cadence! 125rpm, peak power ~ 1100w

Felt really stretched out and flat on the bars, could still generate decent power, bless that 130mm stem!

Pretty happy with that sprint!

To the victor go the spoils... B grade next time!