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| Tadros Knocks Everyone Down a Place! |
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| Thank goodness that's over! |
Weather forecast said
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| You would not believe its only 8:00 pm |
light showers petering out so despite a shower just having passed I was confident of a mainly dry ride. At the last minute I fortuitously grabbed a packable water proof just in case.First rider to show up was Malcolm but he said he was going to have to go home as he had forgotten to put his lights on. Fortunately I have two front and two back lights and so was able to give him half of mine. By 7:35 no one else had arrived, we assumed the showers had put people off, than at the last moment Chris W and Stuart appeared. With the wind behind us it was a very easy ride along the sea defences and through the reserve, I was moving at around 25 mph with no real effort. As we pressed on through the reserve it became very dark and ahead of us the sky was full of black clouds. Malcolm agreed with me that this looked to be more than a light shower. Sure enough it soon started to rain heavily so we pulled over at the 'Kettle of fish chip shop' so that myself and Malcolm could pull on our rain proofs while Chris seemed to be OK with the jacket he already had on. Poor old Stuart only had an ordinary jersey and was soaked thorough, he was beginning to suffer the cold and needed to get going. Unfortunately the road into Rye was being re surfaced so we had to walk along the pavement a short way to get around all the heavy machinery. Malcolm, Chris and Stuart accelerated away from me up the Udimore road but as usual I quite enjoy the solitude of this long drag. At Broad Oak we discussed whether we would do Stonestile or stick to the main road. Often when the road is wet we give it a miss but with all the talk of Pete Tadros finally joining starva and claiming the KOM for stonestile we thought we would give it a go, although Chris wasn't sure he could get up there with his high geared fixie. On the approach to Stonestile it was clear that Stuart was getting colder and colder , this was not a night when he was going to improve his PB and try to catch Matt on the stonestile rankings. Chris bravely battled his way up the first incline but when his foot came out of the pedal it was game over and he had to walk the rest of the climb.Award of the week must go to Stuart for being the wettest (and coldest) rider having been soaked through on both the Wednesday and Friday chaingangs. Looking ahead, the weather is finally going to warm up (if you can trust the weather forecasts!)
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