I'd chosen Seacroft as my comeback race following my year of cardiac-prompted de-training, on the basis that I'd ridden it for many consecutive years and reliably finished in the bunch. Having remembered to put the clocks forward, and arriving to blue skies, the signs were good. However, it was not to be - halfway round the second lap my legs abruptly gave up; I suspect due to having done nothing this intense for much more than twenty minutes for the past twelve months, and certainly not 26mph average. It was just like those first races more than ten years back; I'd kind of hoped I wouldn't be starting all over, but suspect I am. I'm doing the EYRRL handicap series which is probably as good a way as any back in, and will enter a few more events as training and see where it goes. How was it for the rest of you?
Annoyingly, having at least stayed upright while on two wheels, on the way home I fell on a pile of concrete rubble while dropping drawings in to a building site, gashing both legs and banging up a knee and an elbow. Life eh? It's just hard knocks of one sort or another...
