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Last Thursday’s event was cancelled due to traffic light at
Marcle. Very annoying for those that turned up having not seen the forum. Rule of thumb; just have a quick check of
forum prior to leaving home. On the positive side I led a chain gang out
consisting of just Paul Middleton and meeee. This turn out to be a 16 mile 2 up
on my wheel which Paul M seemed to be buzzing about afterwards.
The Sunday before was the Cross Ash Mountain 25, which had
only 3 riders. Of the 3 riders 2 were Ross, both with a hand on the Mountain 25
cup. Bill, Dennis Will & Sammie all turned up for duty to watch the pained
expressions on the riders face at various points of the course.
The sun was out
(Jerry, rode through the event, wishing he’d read the race prog) the air
pleasant with a stiff headwind out to Aber. I decided to make the numbers up,
even though I’d not been well all week.
Just to make things a little more interesting,
we varied to time gap between the riders. Strange thing was, all 4 of us were
all on the mile section through the golf course at the same time. Would have
put money against that happening.
Tom “The Power” Knight led out coming home in 1:34:03.
Mental prep was wrong as we had the phone call 9:30 asking what time the start was.
This was almost 2 minutes faster than last year, so an improvement for Tom.
Wobbly Bob was feeling up beat on the Thursday, rode over
for a warm up, and also improved on last year’s ride by 1 minute and a half,
which in turn was an improvement from the year before that.
Number 1 Forest rider Alan "The Terminator" Matthews, not forgetting it’s probably the
hardest 25.3 mile event in the country looked dangerously fast. I felt he’d
kept his ammo under a bushel and was going to annihilate everyone on the day.
As it was he had a cracking ride. He had me worried I thought he was going to
be hounding me all the way back on the hills having passed him on the first big
drop to see him right behind as I went from48mph to 4 in 3 seconds up the next
bank.
I was more than surprised by my own ride - that power to weight improvement over the
winter may have made the difference as I managed a pb for the course
Thanks all that turned up, I gave me the rider of the day by
the way.
This week’s event is a 7:30 start, course clear
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Paul
Stephens
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1:15:13
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Alan
Matthews
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1:18:42
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RDFCC
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3
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Robin
Hill
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1:25:03
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4
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Tom
Knight
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1:34:03
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