DB Cup: rolled out half-cooked, rolled home with a pint Christchurch, Canterbury ⛅

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Fair enough too… although some of us seem to think 100km and 1800m of climbing is just a light social outing with consequences. Hard bastards only.\n\nIt was the DB Cup, so not just pride on the line, but actual cash. I was off break, and scratch were set 30 seconds behind us. Normally that gets your attention, but there were only two of them, and Derrick let them off early by about 20 seconds anyway, so they were on us pretty quickly, early in the second of four laps.\n\nOnce they made contact, I jumped on easily enough and rolled a couple with them, but I’ve learned that lesson before. Scratch riders love a nice civilised turn until the second you’re exposed, and then they’ll launch straight over the top of you and leave you wondering why you volunteered for unpaid labour. So I kept that in mind and stayed sensible.\n\nChatting to Isaac afterwards, he reckoned he was gutted there wasn’t more wind because he wanted to put us right in the gutter. Cheers for that, mate. Funny thing was, the dying wind completely ruined my handicapping theory. I thought scratch would monster through, but with the conditions easing off, the early marks rode an absolute blinder and stayed away.\n\nWe got tantalisingly close, within five or ten seconds at one point, but that may as well have been five minutes. Close enough to see it, nowhere near close enough to change it. In the end there wasn’t really much of a kick to race for.\n\nStill, it felt like a decent clip for me. Probably not a rapid one by scratch standards, but when there are only two of them doing the damage, that changes the whole game.\n\nBest part of the night though? Young Ebony, Brett’s daughter and a mate of mine, made it all the way through and took the win fair and square. Absolute star. Not only got the chocolates, but fastest woman too, so she’ll be taking home a decent little fistful of prize money as well. 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