Bishop Stortford sporting 27.7mile TT

[Andrew G]

Up at 5:30, 1 and a half hour drive to HQ.
Signed in.
Event delayed 30 mins while risk assessment is finished.
Frozen potholes and slush by roadside - not a problem I avoid those anyway.
Water run off fields over road and frozen!
Number returned-DNS entered on sign in form, back in car and home .

In the end it was cancelled despite the organiser saying he'd sign off the risk assessment if people were careful. I guess after I left pretty much everyone else came to the same conclusion, that even salted frozen black ice over the width of the road is a disaster waiting to happen so packed up. A real shame for the organiser but we don't bounce like we did as nippers and I for one didn't fancy a broken bone at the start of the season.

No Jon at HQ. I suspect he used his experience to come to the same decision as me from the comfort of his bed.

Hope you managed a safe race in the Easter 3 day.

[Jon H]

That's a pity you had a wasted journey Andrew. I guess that means you need to put another SPOCO event into your schedule.

I looked at the weather forecast last night and it was below zero overnight and not much above freezing at race-time. So I suspected that those little lanes would have frozen run-off water and they wouldn't be gritted. However I got my kit together and set the alarm anyway. Looked out the window at 5.45 and there was heavy frost on the cars confirming that it had been a chilly night. So I dived back under the duvet for another few hours and surfaced again at about my scheduled race start time of 8.41am.

[Andrew G]

I try to look on the positive side and it gave my "new" car it's first decent run and nothing fell off so that's a plus.

I'd had a look at other events as I was never convinced that this would be on, so have just switched the Worthing flat 25 on the 18th May for the Medway Velo SPOCO on Q25/8. Looking at the description in the magic book it looks like it's more towards the rolling rather than hilly spectrum of things.

All in a bit of cods-up, I'd entered this event mis-reading where the HQ was and thinking it was a lot closer .

[Jon H]

Andrew, the Q25/8 course is rolling but not at all technical; it's all single carriageway A-roads if I remember rightly. I was a few seconds outside the the hour on it last year, only a minute or so slower than the G25/53 a couple of weeks earlier.

[adrian]

[quote="Andrew G"]All in a bit of cods-up, I'd entered this event mis-reading where the HQ was and thinking it was a lot closer .

[Andrew G]

It would appear not Adrian . In my defence they aren't always right where the club name would have you believe, oh and I didn't know where Bishop Stortford was beforehand , just looked up where the HQ was - sadly the wrong one.

[adrian]

[quote="Andrew G"]In my defence they aren't always right where the club name would have you believe