Bit windy this morning which made it tough on the out leg, not helped by doing my warm up and the first half of the race in the rain. Once off I was travelling a bit slower than I'd have liked but felt surprisingly okay considering I'd spent 5 hours the previous afternoon digging the garden over. I enjoyed the tail wind assisted return to the second turn but after having passed the start point again my legs started to shout unpleasant things at me in to the wind. Despite the tail wind finish I struggled in the last five miles as the previous days labours told.
Finished with 1:03:02 so it's safe to say that 5 hours hard digging isn't ideal race preparation
.Terry had a tough morning with a number of things out to get him and DNF
.On my ride back to HQ after finishing I bumped in to Naomi, who was off at the back end of the field, and wished her well and passed on the wind news. Sorry I couldn't hang around to see you at the finish but I drove passed you when you were at about 10-11 miles in and you looked to be going well, hope you had a good race. It's a decent course and when the wind isn't as strong as today can be quite fast, due to it's direction if it's windy then it runs up and down the course so you get a slow leg and a fast leg like today.