Thetford Winter series Rd 3

Battle of the Iken Somme

Round 3 at a good new venue, destroyed by a monsoon day of biblical proportions.

But here are the results

Quick results of note: with laps 2 hrs:

1^st Hollie 00:52:57 01:03:01

5^th Richard Jones 00:40:31 00:45:33 00:54:24

27^th Stu Knubley 00:44:27 00:48:04 00:54:49

Vets

16^th Paul Brown 00:49:41 00:50:37 00:55:30

19^th Bob Mitchell 00:48:43 00:52:12 00:56:54

4 Hours

3^rd Lloyd Bettles 00:35:47 00:42:45 00:47:17 00:50:02 00:49:21

9^th Gregg payne 00:39:11 00:47:11 00:53:11 00:55:37 00:56:42

Vets

4^th Dave Gardner 00:40:55 00:52:08 00:56:09 00:57:23 01:00:20

6^th Troy Rollason 00:45:20 00:54:46 01:01:27 01:06:50

Great rides from all those above, I bet Dave and Troy are still smiling today ;-)

Watch out Brownie Bobs catching you.

And me well……

20^th Jack Peterson 00:38:49 00:52:13........gave in

Well I messed that up good and proper didn’t I.

Felt good going into this race, to be honest, decided on the singlespeed because its flatland and knew it would be very muddy.

But then like a twonk had too big a gear on the bike for the conditions. 32-16 can twiddle all day round here, but not in porridge.

Piss poor really, I should have taken a couple of spare sprockets with me, and definitely should have done a pre-lap just to see how bad it was.

Should have taken geared bike? What’s the point in having lots of nice bikes if you can’t be bothered to take them to races is another good point !!

On the face of it, why after coming in at 1hr30 in 3^rd place did I pack in…..

Well I could have walked sections, struggled on but there was no way I was going to put my back through another 2 ½ hours of that hell.

Oh well that’s me lost 3^rd in the series, better watch out, Dave’s after that last podium place.