Brad Huff Cycling

So I was really pissed of at what the Rabbobank soigneur has stated about me to our soigneur……blah blah blah you big sprinter is having a tough time on the climbs…blah blah blah….oh he has trouble staying on his bike…blah blah….you get the picture.  So on stage 7, I was sick of it (considering I had just been taken out in yesterdays sprint by some Japanese guy).  So 170ish km stage, French weather….Rain and Cold and nasty roads, and Rabbobank was controlling the front for their race leader.  So I attacked once to just see what would happen, they chased me down, then I looked around and thought……you know F these guys….so I attacked again and really hit the next hill hard, looked back and 3 guys were attempting to bridge to me.  This is pretty much were everything started, I felt ok, but then quick I noticed that I was totally blown and if I was going to stay in this break it was going to hurt.  Mind you we had barely raced 40 km by this point.  More rain came, the temp dropped, and I was near frozen plus my legs were fried.  Our break broke appart on the 1.5km step hill and we all ended up doing a solo TT to the finish (60km away).  I keep on asking Jonny what the Gap was and he would say…oh you are 2 min down on the leader…..No, no Jonny not the leader, what is my Gap on the pack…..oh aaaaa 4 minutes.  Oh this is going to hurt, as I attempted to chase the other guy in front of me, the gap just keep on increasing to him and decreasing to the pack behind.  Near the end we had to do 2 laps of 3km each, on the last lap I only had a 1 min lead, by 2km only 30 seconds, by 1km I could see the packs faces as they chased me down, by the finish I was about 1 bike length infront of the group.  oh that was the most painful 130ish kim break away I have ever done.  I was fighting my bike sooo much and looking like a boxer going down in a blaze of glory the whole time.  This marks a HUGE confidience boost for me.

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