Last week saw the next round in our series. It was my club's home event (USC Vaison) in a lovely village called Villedieu about 6km from Vaison. Well, I have to say we probably rode the perfect race. The race was 14 laps of a 6km long circuit which had a descent into a headwind then a nasty little climb every lap.
The first attacks came on lap 2 and after a strong attack by clubmate Bruno, I managed to jump on the wheel and cover a strong guy called Alain from Isle sur la Sorgue. Suddenly there were 4 of us working well with a gap that went from 20s to 3 minutes over the next 9 laps.
With 3 to go we dropped the 4th chap on the climb then Bruno and me did the classic 1-2 on Alain. I rode on the front for the whole of the last lap, led Bruno up the false flat to the finish and just managed to get 2nd place behind Bruno! (see the pic)
The perfect result followed by a fantastic barbeque in the vllage square.
4 more USCV podiums in the other categories meant it was a super day for the club.
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