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Coast to Coast 2013

Its the silly little mistakes that cost you the most. This is the biggest thing I learnt after my first year racing at the Speight's Coast to Coast as a 2 day individual. After a great build up I was feeling pretty confident coming in to the race knowing I was capable of achieving a pretty good result. As always the nerves on Kumara beach were high as I stood around with the other competitors waiting for the horn to blast which would signal the start of our journey across the South Island  to Sumner beach. My 3km run off the beach went pretty good placing me in the top 20 and in a good position to be in the front bunch on the bike with many of the other top 2 day individuals. Unfortunately even though this bunch was full of the top guys in the event we didnt work together well and ended up getting caught by a large bunch in the last 10km of the 55km ride. This bunch also happened to have my dad in it much to his delight as he casually rode past me to take a turn on the front of t