200 yards? that’s a pretty specific distance. those are either fishing yards or a story that surely should be shared.
The road had 100 yard markings! 😉
The incident I was thinking of as an example there was whilst riding the Goodwood Surrey League crits. We were on the last lap, approaching the last corner in the wet, when some spanner didn’t like that fact that he was badly positioned at the back of the bunch and decided to have a punch up. This brought half the bunch down, which in turn made me slide from the inside of the track to the outside and onto the grass. It was so long it ground half way through my handlebars!!
Not sure if it’s worse sliding along for ages on smooth tarmac, or for a shorter time on that really rough stuff – really slows you down that does!