oops sorry that was the 4up 
! I paced myself in very much the same way catching the two riders who started immediately in front of me before the turn. Though they were both hogging the lane as I passed forcing me to go wide into the next lane of the duel carriage way, not amused, I think I voiced my disdain. Thankfully, not a lot of traffic around. Took the turn to find there was a tail wind! Great,hadn`t noticed a head wind up to the turn, 
Upthe Col du Chicken very smoothly, catching a couple more riders as I did. Made it to the turn, then I found the head wind! 
Boy was it starting to hurt I could see time ebbing away from me
oh no I thought, got to do better than last time out at this distance. Got to the last turn, then it was eyes out pushing as hard as I could, through the line with a 1:00:28. An improvement of 1 min and 7 secsonds over my last outing. Getting closer to sub hour with two 25s to go. And nearly an 8 minute plus in the vet stakes 
George was a DNS, infact there were nearly 10 DNSs! I left before all the results were in, well at least half were in when I left and I was the third fastest at the point, so I reckon with speed of the remaining riders I might get in the top 20