Marvellous weather (thank gawd!) & a grand day out. I’m not sure I enjoyed the course as much as pervious years, but I understand why they might have wanted to experiment with the format. As ever, the organisation, marshalling and cake was excellent. The final loop had some pretty brutal climbing thru the woods – & such was my state of relief at a subsequent descent, I managed to miss a course marker & dropped back down the valley. Idiot. 😳
As a side note, on the saturday I was meant to be getting a lift from Bristol with a mate. He called in sick, and so I caught the West Somerset Railway from Bishop Lydeard. It was ace – sling your bike in the guard’s van & enjoy the scenery. 😀