Stage 3 Dinner Plain - Bright
74km, 1220m elevation gained, 2480m elevation lost
These stats could be easily read as an easy day, this would prove to not be the case, Feeling a bit better again today with the course predominately going down, I thought this might be our chance to make back a bit of time,
So after the controlled start of a couple of km I went to make a breakaway, that lasted no time at all with D mac & Luke pulling me in & drove right by, soon after Mark, Sam & Joel were back on & we all worked together trying to pull them back on the climb up to Mt Hotham & then up to Mt Loch,
With the views, totally breathtaking, although chewing the stem could have had something to do with that too.
They had put a fair gap in, therfore we were on the rivit all day trying not to loose too much time to the D mac train, it was a super fast stage, some fire road descents up in the high 70km/hr with the 20km flat run in to bright averaging 40km/hr putting a different kind of hurt into the legs, from the previous two days of climbing, only to find out later that Dan was holding high 40s - 50 on the run home.
Not all was lost, we managed to put some more good time in the teams behind to consolidate our overall 3rd placing.
More to come, going to roll the legs out with the Kaos crew.
Live to ride, Ride to live,
Troy
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