Astwood '10' 8/5/24

This event saw my return to club events after a brief hiatus on medical grounds (minor operation), so I was a little apprehensive as to how I'd get on  - while I had done a few turbo sessions, this would be the first time out on the road.

As it turned out, I got on OK, though a bit of the pace I'd have expected on such a nice warm spring evening. I had no real issues other than my usual mucking up the clipping in at the start!

I had reckoned that Daniel Chambers, off three minutes behind me would be likely to catch me near the end, and so it proved! As I approached the line on the climb up to the finish line at Astwood, I could hear the unmistakeable sound of a fast moving TT bike quickly followed by Danel's exhortation to me to keep going!

I finished with 24:49, so about 30 to 45 seconds slower than I would have expected, to take third place on actual time, first place on vet standard. Full results are over at the NBRC website.