Well what a day! Paul, Wayne, Terry, Mark and myself left at 9.30 this morning. Right from the off my garmin didn't like the fact that the route was supposed to start from Brackla and kept trying to redirect us back. Terry had a slow puncture so we decided to stop in Pencoed for Terry to fix his wheel and me to fix my garmin. All sorted and a little bit behind schedule we were off to meet Rob in Cardiff ( who was doing hill repeats while waiting for us ). Bit of a pain getting through Cardiff and Newport but we were all looking forward to getting on the better roads after Caerleon. Nice ride up to Abergavenny and time for a coffee and a sandwich while we watched the race go past for the first time. Headed into the town then for another coffee and food at Harry's Cafe. Then it was time for the Tumble! Not as many people on the lower slopes as I expected but the further up we got the crowd got bigger, as we approached the 1km to go banner we were met by a man with his arms out saying we couldn't go any further by bike, and that we had to walk behind the barriers, and we couldn't go that way after the race had past because of health and safety, as they needed to take the barriers down ( crazy ) So we took our position with about 800m to go and had a great view of the riders as they went past in small groups. Couple of naughty boys then decided to go over the barriers and ride to the top and we're quickly stopped by the police bikes. Bit of a fight to get through the crowd to get down the other side but we were soon off with Rob on the front pretty much all the way to Caerphilly.
Thanks guys for your company I really enjoyed it today.
Just seen us on TV to ( for about a second on the helicopter shot )
