Thursday Night - Hour of Power

I would like to lead from the left turn, up the drag and to the lights or Zoo...

Annoyingly this is the only bit I tend to be correctly geared for, but whatever, the top bit's fine by me too. I've been caught out fixed in a geared group before, and this evening if that's how I find myself, I plan to rise above and just hold my own slow and steady pace. None of this painful yoyo-ing every-gear-for-the-occasion fun.
but now that harrong's pulled out, I could turn up geared...