[Closed] HTN 4 Water Orange Bottle Theft - an apology

I participated in HTN 4 this weekend for the first time, as a fat lad getting thinner I loved the challenge and was chuffed with 3 laps and 215th placing, 80 places lower than I was aiming for 😀

Anyway, it was my first 'competitive' event and after the first lap at the top of the field of despair I caught up with one of my mates whilst he was [s]throwing up[/s] removing a base layer. Earlier that morning we'd had a 'moment' with him (in the athlete's food establishment with a big golden 'M") when he thought he'd left his iphone the wall outside his house. he hadn't, and was being a tool.

After he'd removed his [s]stomach[/s] base layer he took off and after re-packing my back pack with the duvet I'd worn for the first lap I noticed the offending water bottle laying where his bike was. I then [i]assumed[/i] he'd had another moment and dutifully picked it up and placed it on the spare bottle rack on my Genesis Fortitude Race. As I came round for lap 2 I caught him up again and asked him if he forgot it.

it was when he said 'no' I then realised that someone who was either;

a) not very thirsty
b) forgetful
c) not wanting excess weight
d) now dehydrated

had left it there for future laps. To that person I wholeheartedly apologise that I deprived them of fluids for a lap (or probably three laps for them) and can confirm I didn't piss in it or drink from it. I hope you realised it was returned at some point 8)

Let the public flogging commence and honesty is always the best policy