Bec 25 - 7/7

[Andrew G]

Bec 25 this morning on the 45 (Ockley) course. Lovely morning and felt okay, unfortunately it turned out to just be a training ride. About 1.5 miles into the race and I hit some temporary traffic lights, these had only been put up after the race had started and the first few riders had a clear run!

I hit them to perfection, they turned red just as I arrived. I sat there, and sat there, my minute man arrived and they were still red. Eventually they changed and off but the race was ruined by then, I yo-yoed with my minute man a couple of times after we'd been released by the lights and this annoyed me, so I sat up for half a mile to let a gap open so we could get on with it. His race hadn't been as delayed as mine so I let him go so we didn't get in each others way.

My mind wasn't in it for a bit and I thought about just pulling in as I passed the HQ, but I have a number of friends in the Bec and they had their marshals out so I put my race head on again and decided to push on and get some race miles in the legs for training.

My time was a mid 1:03 but largely academic after all the trouble in the first quarted/third of the race.

A real pity for the Bec, I've never seen lights pop up during a race.

[Dominic]

Unlucky Andrew, that is just unbelievable!

[Andrew G]

They were doing work on the bridge, I guess it was emergency work and when I went home the traffic had been backed up all down to Capel.