Greig Leach

The twelve laps around the Wollongong circuit took everyone up and over Mount Pleasant repeatively zapping strength from the legs every time. The early break was still away with 93 kilometers to go. Each rider followed the other over the top and filed into a long single file line down the other side. While there are others in the group, this is Pieter Serry (Belgium) following, Pavel Sivakov (France), then Luke Plapp (Australia), Lukasz Owsian (Poland), Pier-Andre Cote (Canada) and just dropping out of sight of the fans is Guy Sagiv (Israel). They may be doomed in their efforts to stay off the front since the peloton has pulled them back to an under four minute advantage. Only time will tell if it is all worth the effort for the group.