About a dozen riders on a wet and windy night, half of whom had already faced a strong headwind battling over from points west. A strong tailwind lifted us along with various digs going up the road but no breaks sticking. Lead group of 6 or so stayed together till last bend where we had a short "interval" session to the stop, I got a gap early and managed to hold it.
On return trip into that tough headwind, a combination of sheltering close to roadside from sidewind, with all eyes on lights from an oncoming car, caused three of us to ride into a nasty pothole, half a mile before the level crossing on the inside. Swavek came off and punctured both tyres (!) luckily no serious harm appeared to be done, just a sore wrist. Malc and Dan punctured their fronts as well. Once everyone was fixed up, it was getting late so the westerners turned back and seven of us continued to Bexhill. Joe Jenner launched a nicely judged uphill move going clear. Dan, Simon and I then bridged over to Joe, keeping it rolling and Joe delivered a textbook Cav finish, nice!
Chris Parker has torn a muscle playing hockey so any volunteers to lead the club run from Harrow, this Sunday at 9am?
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Well done you for going out. I was all ready to go, kit laid out, mudguards and lights on, tyres pumped. The I looked out the door at the rain and said bugger that!
ReplyDeleteHopefully will make it to the Harrow for the Sunday run this weekend.