Well, my knee is still hurting somewhat, and Thursday's race didn't make it better... I therefore decided to do an "easy" start, as this was the twice the distance of Thursday's race. That idea was blown to pieces, when BSim crashed 57 seconds before the start, and I had to login and find the race again. Stupid me forgot to stop pedalling, and there was 3 seconds till start, when I re-joined. So I had to wait for my wheel to stop spinning, before I could start (didn't want to ruin my carbon brakepads which are still on the bike since Sunday's race).
Therefore the slower / follow the ghost group start wasn't an option. Luckily
@AAAC 76C did notice, I was missing and came back to tow me back up to
@Whorty. But in the end, I couldn't ride in the heavy gears for long, so I had to let go and wait for the Ghost Train, which ultimately also left me. Then I slowed down and waited for Steve's ghost before pushing past him on the final 500 meters...
I'll try a 3 day bike rest now, and see if things get better. If not, I'll seek medical help. Heck, maybe he'll prescribe me some TUE to make the pain go away and/or improve my performance.
In 2 weeks time I'll be going to Mallorca, and was hoping to rent a bike and do some rides, but that idea seems unlikely at the moment as well...
Congratulations on the win
@Whorty! I promise to redo this stage, if/when my legs feel better, as today's performance was poor at best.