National Junior Road Race Champs - Alex Peters

The National Champs panned out just as I would've expected from a championship "title" race. Found myself marked and with only one friend (Tao Geoghan-Hart), the first hour of the race was extremely slow, training pace,  only 33km/h or so... I couldn't believe it. A few riders managed to soft pedal away and were given 6-7mins on the peloton - as you can imagine that's a pretty big gap considering it's a short race. Dangerous enough for me to start pushing on... long story short I burnt all my "matches" trying and came last in the top group, 9th. However I don't feel so bad now - I was strong in the race, so I am looking forward to seeing what else I can do