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I hate HH! I've broken more bikes there than all the other venues put together.
One of the upsides of Eastern League are high quality smooth riding courses, and NOT having to go to HH! Only like it in connection with Muddy Hell
Fingers crossed your bike comes through unscathed. Perhaps your idea of having it on the wall was the right one.
One of the upsides of Eastern League are high quality smooth riding courses, and NOT having to go to HH! Only like it in connection with Muddy Hell
Fingers crossed your bike comes through unscathed. Perhaps your idea of having it on the wall was the right one.
Time for a bit of an update - a bit of a week, so please pardon the swagger.
First up last Saturday at Welwyn CX - rode the cross race of my life to score 6th in a very high quality field. Finally rode a race with fresh legs and it made a huge difference.
On Sunday we had our Inter Club Hill Climb champs, my first foray into this weird and wonderful discipline, and managed 7th in a quality field, and our club won with 5 riders in top ten.
On Tuesday my daughter Maud was born. Here she is
On Saturday we held our club HC champs, in two legs on two different hills, where I broke the course record on the first hill, albeit briefly, as a clubmate broke it again just a few minutes later, and I ended up third overall.
Finally yesterday, this happened at the Amis Velo Cross at Colchester in a very, very muddy race:
I had a comedy of errors day today, which included missing the gridding at the start, wrapping myself up in course tape on a run up, coming to a standstill in the deepest mud bog on the course and keeling over sideways for a near total immersion, riding past the pits thinking this bike is handling very strangely, and not realising I had a front puncture which meant I had to ride the whole of the outback singletrack on a flat front tub.
All in all, somewhat surprised to have finished in 4th and with prize money too.
What a week, I feel tired just writing that I think I might go for a lie down
First up last Saturday at Welwyn CX - rode the cross race of my life to score 6th in a very high quality field. Finally rode a race with fresh legs and it made a huge difference.
On Sunday we had our Inter Club Hill Climb champs, my first foray into this weird and wonderful discipline, and managed 7th in a quality field, and our club won with 5 riders in top ten.
On Tuesday my daughter Maud was born. Here she is
On Saturday we held our club HC champs, in two legs on two different hills, where I broke the course record on the first hill, albeit briefly, as a clubmate broke it again just a few minutes later, and I ended up third overall.
Finally yesterday, this happened at the Amis Velo Cross at Colchester in a very, very muddy race:
I had a comedy of errors day today, which included missing the gridding at the start, wrapping myself up in course tape on a run up, coming to a standstill in the deepest mud bog on the course and keeling over sideways for a near total immersion, riding past the pits thinking this bike is handling very strangely, and not realising I had a front puncture which meant I had to ride the whole of the outback singletrack on a flat front tub.
All in all, somewhat surprised to have finished in 4th and with prize money too.
What a week, I feel tired just writing that I think I might go for a lie down
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Howard
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I have spare wheels, just didn't schlep them to the race - couldn't be bothered as I raced quite hard the day before so was a bit knackered. It means strapping them to my back and carrying them down to HH - a real pain.
How events would have been different if I had bothered though.
i) would probably have punctured a tub instead
ii) would have had spare wheel (tubeless) so could have continued to race
iii) may not have been RTC'd on the way home
In a parallel universe all ended well! Except for the broken Tub.
How events would have been different if I had bothered though.
i) would probably have punctured a tub instead
ii) would have had spare wheel (tubeless) so could have continued to race
iii) may not have been RTC'd on the way home
In a parallel universe all ended well! Except for the broken Tub.