A Time trial team event in Pembrokeshire which is always an interesting way of racing. With Sarn Helen being on the top for the previous years there's always pressure of delivering the trophy back to the leisure centre of Lampeter. We arrived with a strong team and confident of a good run and performance, even with the Peugeot cutting out on the way which led us to a longer warm up than anticipated.
Headed off 22 minutes past 11.00am which had me infield and with plenty of runners to keep me busy. Flat out start down the hill it wasnt until 2miles that i hit the flats and felt the pace of the start. Slowly gathered the steam back for the hills finished strong with a huge tailwind to the finish.
Sorting out the results post race we gathered that we had a gd set of times and we should easily have made it another trophy. But didnt quite go to plan, we got called out to second place, we just stood there expecting someone to question the result. Anyhow we collected the trophy, milk saucer, which was very poor to the previous years prize of Kit bags and Training coats.
Results out it quickly came apparent that a runner from the winning team was given a 10min bonus time which had given Pembs runners a 1 min win.
All sorted we came out on top with Myself, Jack, Llew, Carwyn and Glyn becoming winners by 9 minutes and the fastest time ever recorded by any team. I came out as fastest of the day in 40.25, Jack 2nd in 41.10 and Pembs 3rd in 41.10.
Top day, Llew's peugeot having to be Towed home, bad night.
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