yeah....had 53-11 on board the cosmics......in this situation.....into the wind, which was the problem, there was no way I coulda pushed it.. I was 'maxing' HR as well...so a shift to 53-11 wasn't gunna help that!....i was also concious of the 'appropriate' time to get 'dropped' by the pro's. I didn't wanna self destruct trying to stay with them, when I still had 240km to ride. I knew that I was within 5 km of the 1st climb, where I was gunna get dropped anyway...because all the 'D' graders were just 'hanging' anyway, it was abit like 'Big brother'....."it's time to go.....Hitchy".....cos if i was that 53-11 dude I woulda dropped all these pro's by then anyway!

cheers,

Hitchy