As some of you may know Josh Page has gone to race for the Giant Asian racing Team based in Korea - Below is extracted (and slightly edited version of his email back to Revolution Cycles) Will keep the blog up to date with his travels.
Thought I'd update you all on the racing so far, we have had a 1.8k tt and a 178k road race in Japan
TT
Was a short sprinters style course so not really suited to me, no worries though I just wanted to get through it, do a good time and not come last lol.
Well I managed 74th place which was all good and did the same time as my team captain so I was pleased with that. You can see a pic to if you click on the link
>> Josh looking nervous here
Road Race
Today we had a 178k road race. I was pretty nervous as it was my first proper race with these guys and I havn't ridden my bike a lot lately for various reasons and I can't even remember when I last rode that far?? I just wanted to make it to the finish and get some hard racing in the legs as I no I'll get better as the race goes on.
Well to cut a long story short things didn't go to well and after about 3 laps I was gone out the back door riding by my self wondering what I am doing here.
But I remembered that Jeremy Yates told me before I left not to panic when things go bad and dont let it get to ya, so i just cruised along and after a while rode with and Aussie guy We got caught by the bunch (lapped) a few laps later and we were allowed to tag on and finish with them (we get a calculated time so I'll be way down but that's cool) Well my legs were starting to wake up and come right so I finished with the bunch no worries.
I know I'll get stronger as the tour goes on so I'll try for a good result later on when it gets hilly. But the good news of the day was that my team mate Eric came second and is now high on gc, he could even win the tour because he's really strong so thats mint as. So I'll be helping him as much as I can.
Anyway we are off to Korea tomorrow and have a rest day on Tuesday. Racing resumes Wednesday so until then catch you all later
Dinner time now
