Well, I knew Iain was insane to be doing this, but he rang me before breakfast from the top of Shap Fell to tell me he’d done a Floyd Landis-style breakaway and raced to to the top, arriving a good five minutes before the rest of the team! He knows the road fairly well from having ridden it in training a few times in the last 2-3 years, and of course on the Jogle last year, so he knew when to go, powering down the dips and heading uphill in the biggest gear he could manage. He was going so fast they didn’t even have the camera set up to capture the riders arriving yet, so there is no photographic evidence – shame! So he’s definitely earned his ’second breakfast’ which was waiting for the riders at the top.
Marmotte, here he comes!
Btw, they had no reception at the nunnery last night so there was no blog update or tweets from Iain. Hopefully tonight.
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Simon // June 24, 2009 at 4:06 pm |
Chapped legs, sunburn, pasta and Pavlovian van conditioning. I’m not suprised the poor bugger made a break for it. Glad everyone is doing well and that spirits appear to be high.