Chubby Hale’s Taupo cycle race!!!
Well we start in a bunch of about 40 women, the race was boring at the start, everyone not wanting to take turns in the front and or trying to sus each other out.
We rode to Turangi and still nothing much happened apart from a few women making little breaks to keep us on our toes.
We then arrived at the half way point (50km) where our sprint was….. I pushed hard but found the Aussies straight on my wheel where they took out the points and I ended up 4th over the line “DOH”
By now we were at the feeding station , I changed my drinking bottle and made my way up to the front of the peloton. We turned the corner and I knew that there was going to be a tail wind. So with that thought I power off 50+ kms a hour …. Only to have a flaming Aussie on my wheel again!!!!! I kept going at this speed for about 10 mins then looked back and saw that the bunch had caught up. “ o man” I thought , what a waste of energy!!! Anyway I sat up dropped my speed back to about 35km and waited for someone to take the lead… however no one did!!!
By now I was thinking I have nothing to lose so I just boosted super fast right of the front NO one was expecting that as they thought I would still be tired .. but na !!!not the Chubb monster
I just kept pushing hard , with speeds of 40-45kph, I didn’t look back for a least 2 mins …. There was no sign of the peloton anywhere… a smile came ….. ahaha u girls didn’t think I would do that did u I thought to myself. I just kept pushing hard , now that the support car had come in behind me and was telling me that I had 35 seconds over the peloton.
My lead just kept getting bigger and bigger “you have 1 min” said the support car!!! YUSS!!! I thought all I have to do is keep this lead up the hill so I don’t get left behind. Well…. By the time I got to the bottom Hatepe hill I had 1 min 30sec over the peloton!!!
I started climbing SLOWLY as that’s just how I climb hills.. I won the queen of the mountain.. ( what a joke).
I got to the top of Hatepe hill with 45sec on the peloton. WOW maybe I could ride by myself all the way to the end and WIN and do it for Willy and OMG I could win $2000 . so I pushed on, riding with my heart beating at 190+ bpm. I pushed and pushed and pushed so hard that I even had a little spew!!! Now it was about 10km to the finish and now I could see the peloton behind me… my heart sunk, and the support car saw it too, he then yelled no Chubby keep going “you can do it”, so with that I pushed I little harder… but I was tired as.. All I could do now was try stay with the bunch as they rode past.
“O man” I thought again I bet they are going to pass me on the hill (air port hill) no what a dumb place to pass me…. not a hill..I hate hills !!, and yes they did , half way up.I started to drop off the back as I was gone and feeling stuffed. The support cars had been very nice to me, shouting “come on chubby hang on u can do it” I dug deep and pushed hard again and leeched onto the back of them ,rested for a minute ,then BOOM went straight to the front and had another go just to let then know I was still hear and feeling good !!!(not)!!!! But they didn’t no that did they hahaha. Well we were just coming in to the finish a BIG crashed happened.. I saw it happen, but with my super good mountain bike skills I missed the crash. Although it did slow me down a lot, I saw the winners cross the line and knew it was over, so I just rolled over the finish line in no rush… I had done my best and I guess today was just not my day !! I did win Queen of the Mountains and a $100.00…… but my day will come soon!!!
Thanks to Paul and Tracey for all there help and my slave…haha
Chubby Hale!!
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