I was off in the first group. Just like last year there were about half a dozen people who were prepared to work, and as a consequence speed yo-yoed between brisk on the downwind leg of the circuit and a crawl on the upwind leg, accompanied by the sound of much braking as people avoided coming through to the front.
I spent too much time at the front and by the end of the third lap of five the group split and I only had the legs to stay in the slower group, as a second bunch edged away and a faster group of about four did what we all should have been doing and pulled swiftly clear by doing short, hard turns in an organised way.
About a lap before the end Erik the Flying Dutchman came steaming past towing a group of half a dozen, and at the last corner Muzzy's group caught us, so I ended up midway somewhere. It had been cold, windy and over the last couple of laps the snow had really started - bloody horrible would sum it up. Roll on spring!