Reply To: Long Course

[stoneditch]

Well, I for one was very happy to see Ian at the Princes Gate food stop for the first time. At least it was not a lonely Saturday for me. We started at the same place and finished at the same place, albeit I was pipped by 1s. Ian still managed to somehow ride 0.3 miles and climb 247 feet more than me! Despite running the same model of Garmin.

This was the first time I had done this ride and it is much tougher than I had given it credit for. The second time round the shorter loop especially. Of course the heat didn’t help (my Garmin peaked at 38!) but, that’s been well documented.

Only too happy to be able to douse a fellow Dynamo with chilled water, you were after all showing signs of heat exhaustion and once you have those you don’t have very long before you start hallucinating etc. I can certainly vouch for the fact that it’s not very pleasant.

Not a bad time after all, very pleased to have done it and ecstatic to see the Tenby sign for the second time. Good showing for the Dynamos, mostly sporting club jersey’s and recovery ‘beer’ at the end.
I Still have a lump in my throat from seeing Nicky Rees and Gareth Scotcher come over the line on their bike.

White summer kit please, go on you know you want to…