This is a boys school with huge grounds and the course was great with a mixture of everything from fast flat out grassy playing fields and tricky decents where some of the girls I encountered were screaming with fear
to short sharp steep climbs that required a fair amount of Tennis grunting to be able to ride up them.In the team we had Aoden on a his and hers matching red planet x
Fred at his first cross on his nice black Kinesis crosslight and myself just hanging in there all crossed out.
Unfortunately I didn't even get to see Monica who Fred insists he saw at signing on.
Off we went and charging round the fields, I was finding it heavy going today, grimacing in pain but remembering to smile and whoop to all the spectators and cameras.
There was a nasty lump on one fast straight where a Dulwich rider had taken a nasty collar bone fall, another patient for Dr Laser I think.
Chris Ansell took me and I didn't have the power to respond and pretty much thats how it panned out for me, the harder I pushed the harder it was as I struggled to keep Kev and Andy from Dulwich in sight.
Lapped Fred in the woods as I was hollering something or other, my friend Olimpiu was there to hand me up a drink each lap which I gladly took. On the last lap lapped Bryan Taylor who cheekily with good intention blocked me into the bushes as I passed him
I found that a really tough race and well done to Fred for giving it a go, we all managed a team finish. Back at the HQ there was a prize ceremony for the whole London League were I was awarded my trophy for 3rd place and the Arctic squad grabbed the team champs for the race
I need a bit of a rest now from racing so am gonna take a few days off as the TT season opens for me next weekend
