Dexa – yes sorry to have missed you, will have to try again next year – May well have rode together at some point and not known it – will have a look at the photos to see – I got about 1/4 way up sims hill , there was some guy on a santacruse of some sort who got 3/4 of the way up ! ( and then he left me for dead on the big road hill before the finish , the one that went on for ever ! )
My knees are throbbing away to day so its reassuring to know that its not just me (getting old ! ) – dread to think how the 2 single speeders that I saw ( a Kona Unit and a Jones Plus) are suffering today