Here's a laugh, I did the Great Selby Bike Ride, a 45mile charity event. It's not a race! And that's what I kept telling myself as I stuggled to hold on in the lead group which never slowed to less than 22mph and in the attacks that kept going off at 28mph and whilst we contested the bunch sprint at the end and whilst people kept hitting the deck all over the place on the bends on expensive carbon fibre bikes in the atrocious wet conditions. Sad, I know, but tremendous fun and after that, next year I'm going to do something easier and less dangerous: road racing
I had a cold for the Fred Whitton and so didn't finish (still got 68 miles in riding back to pack!). Steve went round in 7:40ish I think after waiting for me at the start.
Weather wasn't as bad as it might have been; wet, slippy in places but it cleared up later on.
7.37 actually which was only 5 minutes slower than last year so I was well pleased. Conditions weren't great but not as bad as I feared. The descent off Honistor was very greasy and there were a couple of nasty crashes down there. I got caught by a heavy shower on Hardknott and the descent was like a river! Bumped into Chris Bandy at the Gosforth feed.
Looking forward to doing it again in July but hopefully at a more leisurely pace and with a couple of cafe stops!
The July version, for all of you who are interested, will be on Sun 2nd. This ride will be a simple clubrun, and yes a 2 Cafe strategy will be the order of the day... We picked this date as many of you will be over that way anyway for the Border City Wh Hilly the day before - part of the Clifton Open TT series. Should make a great weekend!
