I haven't seen all the official results yet, as I had to shoot off after the race today.
I think we did the TT in 18:18 or there about, we got held up by a tractor after the turn. I think I finished inside the top 25 in the road race on day 1 with Neil not far behind suffering with cramp but still managed a strong ride, followed by Mark, Harpo got dropped when the pace picked up at a weird point on the road by Southerndown and later dropped out as another group failed to get together behind the bunch. Mark had been ill all week and was still sounding rough on the Saturday but still managed to get myself and Neil back on the bunch when it split. Amazing effort we would have been stuffed if he hadn't been there. I was pleased not to have made too many "idiot" moves in the road race only going off the front on my own once like a mad man on the coast road. Good weather and a great day of racing.
I met Neil at his house on Day Two, I must admit I was feeling bit sorry for myself. Mark was ill, Harpo out, Neil's leg was a bit stuffed up and it was raining. It put a bit of a dampener on proceedings. We made our way to HQ to sign on, I kept telling Neil he was signing in the wrong box, then I noticed that Mark and Harpo had signed on! Excellent. Couldn't stop smiling after that. Harpo couldn't do the race in the end as they would DQ everyone in the team if he did. I couldn't feel sorry for myself after that, not when one of your team signs on to compete regardless of the previous days racing. That's the kind of people you want on your team.
I finished in the second group on the road today, hopefully inside the top 30 although quite a bit behind the leading group I suspect, with Neil not far behind me. What with the weather being bad everyone seemed to want to roll home. It was good fun, a bit nervous today with the rain (that might have just been me!). Happy to have got round in one piece as there were a couple of incidents. Annoyed with myself that I didn't position well going into the Glynogwr climb, I reckon I could have scraped the leading group if I had. Good fun working together in 2's and 3's trying to catch them though!
I posted about the road side support from the club in the amblers club run section. We had club members on every event cheering us on, I think I have seen everyone out over the course of the weekend (most on both days), the support over the weekend was phenomenal. I'll post the results when I get them through.
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