Hi everyone
Thought I'd better give you all an update on the last two days of racing.
We are now in Korea and have just finished stage 2 of the Korean part of the tour.
Stage1
It was a pretty fast day today averaging around 43-44kph for 146km's of racing.
We were pretty much on 3 lane highways the whole time so it was just smash it hard all day long and heaps of fun. I felt way better than Sundays road race, though coming in to the start of the last lap my legs were starting to feel a tad hammered after the distance and high speed. Well I just got tailed off going over the top of the feed zone climb. This was about 15k to go so no real worries, I got back on just after the decent and just as I got on my team captain wanted me on the front to assist in the chase bringing back the break-away.
Dam oh well better do as he says. Lucky for me just as I arrived at the front the break was almost captured, phew that saved me a lot of agony as my legs were pretty smacked by this stage, so I pretty much hung on to the back of the bunch as we smacked out the final few km's to the finish at speeds of pretty much not below 50kph.
Normally this is nothing but at the end of 3 and a half hours racing your legs are kind of hurting a tad.
Any way I finished in the bunch today and was glad that I finished with the bunch, and the legs are coming right.
Stage 2
I decided today that i was going to give it a bit of a go. So to help my team mate who is currently 2nd on the gc I had to cover any moves at the start basically follow any attempted break-aways and sit on them if they worked. Well I didnt make the break away, so I was able to cruise for awhile but then it was time to start working to minimise the time gaps so jumped on the front with the Skil-Shimano team who is the team of the yellow jersey and took turns at the front with them for two laps of the circuit. By the end of the race my legs were spanked and we still had a big climb before the run in two town. I was pretty dazed by now and got rolled so rather than killing myself for bunch time sat up and cruised home with one of the Skil-shimano boys who also was a bit waisted after pulling on the front all day. So I was pretty pleased with my self today as I was able to help the team out
Eric our team mate is still 2nd over all which is great
Well that's all for now
Josh
