Day 25 World Championships

There is no other way to describe today other than a big anticlimax!!!!!

It was pouring with rain all last night and continued throughout the morning, the course was fast with no really difficult corners but loads of standing water, the amount of spray the biggest problem. An ever so slight downhill straight run through the finish which meandered slightly, left and then right until the last 150m, so important to be at the front with the movement in the road.

I gave the finish a 'dry run' (that's a joke by the way, it was p...... down) at 3 to go by jumping it up at about a kilometer to go and winding it out, we weren't sprinting of course but I had the line into lots of little groups and crossed the finish line 20 lengths clear so I was very happy with were I was, feeling great and a with a plan to execute.

Coming round to 2 to go I punctured!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So having started the build up for this race in October last year, training like a lunatic, eating the right stuff, hardly drinking, cutting back on my racing etc etc etc. Feeling like I was floating on the day. I punctured.

At least I will be able to have a nice dinner out with my family this evening and probably an extra glass of red wine or two.

I'm trying to convince myself that I've had some great results on the trip and it was only one race but I'm not really succeeding at the moment, I could race tomorrow and Tuesday, at the moment I'm not that fussed about more races and tomorrow I'll spend with my family and think about the race on Tuesday after that.