Wheelworks.co.nz, Handbuilt wheels by Tristan Thomas

From Cameron:

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My weekend was pretty awesome. I rode out to Makara as part of my warm up and then stood in a registration queue for 15 minutes which wasn’t particularly helpful which left me with 10 minutes to sprint up and down the road to warm up again.

Senior Men started with Master 1 Men which has some rather fast people including Hisky. At the start heaps of people flew off up the road and I did my best to not over cook it to early which I have a bad habit of doing. Ended up riding a good portion of the early race with Hisky who looked a bit shocked that he was being beaten by quite a few people.

Once I settled in I just put it in the hurtbox and left it there for the rest of the race as I had no idea which category the people in font of me where in. Managed to reel in quite a few people over the course of the race. We climbed Aratihi twice and the second time up was probably one of my fastest ascents ever.

At prize giving it came to the senior men category and they called up someone who I passed right near the start of the race. At this point I was like “hang on I must be on the podium, sweet!”. Turns out I was on the top step. First race and ride in my jersey and I celebrated with a win :D. Feels great to win a race, the last thing I won was a few years ago and there was only one other person in my category and it was their first race.