You'd have to like hills though, four times up North Newbold hill. Though this race is easy for me to get to, the organiser assures me I'll get a ride if I turn up on the night, he says the 4th cats (not you Jess
) get a generous 7 minute start, I've not done any racing this year so it would be nice to do a couple of races at least and there'll be a few Clifton jerseys there so I'm pretty sure I'm going to do these.
And besides a long climb doesn't always spell disaster for those that can't climb. Indeed I had one of my best results (er about 15ish years ago) in a race that consisted of one long long draggy climb with the rest of the circuit being downish to get to the foot of the climb again. People would crack off in ones and twos all the way up the climb so you'd end up with some behind and some ahead by the time you got to the summit. Once over the summit those behind would come by like a train and you'd jump on and pick up the small groups ahead. Of course with the peloton ahead to catch up everyone worked together to get them back. It worked so well that on the last lap we caught the group on the finishing straight and I went on to contest the sprint and won........heh heh had you going there, I didn't win (obviously) but finished in the bunch which is a good result for me. Mind you I was a stone lighter then