Broken chain woes - must remember to get a link kit

Riding out today, though I'd swap the chain back to a Dura Ace chain for my training and unclipped the other chain and put the new one on. The pins that come with Dura Ace seem reasonable, although they can be problematic if coupled with a bent FSA chainset. Well, after a few miles a click developed, which (sod's law came into effect) at the furthest point away from home it snapped. Anyhow, 30 minutes later and now acomplishet with the chain tool I managed to bend a few more links and shorten the chain that much I could not use some of the gears, but I managed to get home. Oh, well.

The picture above is early on when I went to the front to pull a group back and to try out the pace a little as I was not feeling all that good and had not done anything for the first few laps. I though the group was all on, however on the slight hill on the circuit it appears not as 3 of us ended up creating a gap. 3rd back was the guy who I think won as he was on my wheel on the lap before the bell when I thought I'd try and split things up a bit or see what happened. Thinking back I should have tried a break to make a gap and then end up dropping back in rather than tow anyone along. When I moved to the front it was without any significant speed difference, but it was at the start of the hill where everyone seems start the breaks from.

Strategy for next week is to possibly try something along the same lines again a little later and with more conviction at the start, although if I'm feeling better then I'll go for the jump break and then 2 / 3 up if we get much of a gap.

Compared to how I have felt in the previous few weeks I should have been stronger than what I was and felt a lot better (weather that would have translated into watts and a few more seconds on the front is unknown). All good fun though...