Distance: 92 km in 5.10 including 21km each way and 50km 3.09 for the event.
Weather: Cold and Sunny
Terrain: Very dry and very fast.
riders:
ramon: smooth and confident.
juanita: demon descender.
cliff: inhuman.
alan parky: went to church.
paul gadd: struggled after crashing last night, so he did it again.
neil: climber.
How it panned out: the swrc group set off as one, parky set the pace and cliff responded. Then it was eyeballs out until the first hill and the selection of the above five occured. Then the whittling started first to go was paul on the climb to reynards, next neil's front mech slipped in the woods at Holmbury.(alan said. 'go on, he'll catch us up') this group stayed together to the water stop, where ramon and parky filled their bottles. juanita and cliff rode on. cliff turned off at the bifurcation of the standard route and the longer route. ramon, juanita and parky took the long route. After a slight orientation hitch alan set off for the church and ramon and juanita went the right way. ramon thought 'he'll catch us up'. He did, but only after we'd finished our coffee at the finish:-)
mechanicals:none.
meeting of the day: the brothers grim, kay, phil.
slackers/soft tarts/no shows: marky has a cold, facer went to a party, the mighty dinsdale had to work.
the perfect ride.
4 comments:
I had a hard northern cold not one of your lightweight southern variety!
Who's that handsome devil in the picture? Oh it's me, I thought I recognised them.
For a while on the ride I thought it was Sunday and so it would be appropriate to visit St. Martha's church on the way round. That's when Ramon & Juanita thought that a Au standard was more important than look after their team-mate.
Anyway it was a great day to ride with some super fast decents down some lovely leaf covered trails.
had a hard northern cold not one of your lightweight southern variety!
I think it may be 'manflu':-)
That's when Ramon & Juanita thought that a Au standard was more important than look after their team-mate
It's standard swrc protocol to lose clubmates. In fact it's written in to the oath of allegiance;-)
That will teach me for not wearing the club top. I hope you don't do the same at the new comers event next w'e.
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