Well, I had my first race of the road season on Saturday. I was going quite well - spinning along and hanging in pretty nicely with the bunch, I was actually feeling pretty strong, and then I got a b****y puncture! I was loaned a spare rear wheel and I went on to finish the race, but of course by the time I was back on the bike the bunch was a couple of kms in front and with about 21/22 kms to go I had no hope of catching them. Hopefully I'll have better luck next time.

Meanwhile my coach accidentally caused a crash in his race bringing himself down and his best mate. They're fine, mainly skin off and bruised egos. The bikes are fine too.