. Chat with Steve when I arrived as he was finishing his warm up as he was of quite a bit earlier than me. He said it was windy, he wasn't kidding.I had a reasonable warm up and felt okay going to the start but it was windy, set off and it was okay to start with but hard work to the first turn. Quick back with the tail wind and it was really picking up by now. Turned back in to the wind and it was like riding in to a wall. At times I was going full bore just to hit 17mph! Never known it so windy there. Really struggled along to the turn with the average speed pathetic after the slog in to the wind. Around the turn and it was daft, six miles to home and after the early couple of lumps the final five miles were all done in the top two gears. I was doing 30mph for about three miles and only down to 28mph at worst.
Crazy return speed after such a slow journey out but couldn't make up any time lost.
Finished with 1:04:42 which is two minutes slower than I've ever gone here but never raced in such a strong headwind as that second leg in to it other than on the Isle of Wight. Crap time so put it down to training miles, didn't bother to check the results properly but plenty of slow times. Other that is than to see Steve had done a mid 1:01 which was excellent in the conditions if the wind was as strong early on, all those miles for the 24s paying dividends in strength for riding in to the wind. Tejvan won with 51:59 slipping through the wind with his pencil profile, cruised passed me like a slippery eel
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