Dylan has scored his first big win and did it in style at the Metropolitan Championships. The race was over 92km, four laps of a 23km circuit, over hilly country near Boonah. The bunch stayed pretty much together for the first three laps with one break getting up the road by 1min 30secs on lap two but Dylan and the boys closed it down and put some pressure on at the start of the final lap. Dylan's job for the team was to get one of the other guys in the team to the start of the climb on the last lap at the front of the bunch. Dylan did his job and they were about 30 seconds up at the foot of the hill just as a second rider came across the gap. Dylan then went and his team mate told him to go as he had nothing (he had spent some time training with the Budget team recently). The other guy blew up going over the top of the hill so Dylan just went with 20km's to go. A lot of the guys about 30 yrs old who could probably race A grade some days underestimated how hard Dylan is learning to go up a hill. After the race I was told the commissaire was going up and down the bunch telling them the time gap on the last lap and they said they were chasing as hard as they could. From here he soloed to victory. Final margin was about 50secs.
Brad Lawlor rode his heart out but he blew up on the last hill with quite a few others due to the pace at the front (A new bike will make a difference for sure). A lot of us know that feeling locally so it’s now other peoples turn to feel the pain. His team were also second and fifth so a good showing.
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