The Several P's →
Proper prior preparation prevents piss poor performance, right
So I went out training on Saturday and 2 hours into a tempo ride I bumped into a race. I was going to watch but peer pressure from te nice old lady who hands me bidons sometimes Persuaded me to pin on a dossard.
Fully expecting to get dropped I set off with one can of coke in a bottle, a jersey with didn’t match my knicks and made it to a bakery just in time to pound a rijstart on the line.
For reasons best known to myself I didn’t get dropped as fast as I’d hoped, despite my frame pump and saddlebag. Thus I found myself 100k later with nearly five hours on the clock begging jelly smurfs off the other riders as it started to hail…..
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