The premise is simple, find yourself a much older and hopefully capable rider, and then time trial a 10 mile course in the hope that your older riders handicap is enough time to alter your time for a win overall !Teams are often sorted well in advance, often a year in some cases, and up until last week I didn't have a partner, until 48 year old Gaz stepped in, and now we had two forty year olds riding against teams with much older riders in them - basically it was to be a bit of fun and some rider of the season points.
The course was one of the usual club 10 courses and the same course used for last month for the clubs 2-up event. The difference tonight was that storm clouds were brewing and there was the sound of thunder in the air. yep..it was going to be a wet one !
The heavens opened as we were just a quarter of a mile down the road and it was torrential ! I couldnt see much at the front and when it was my turn at the back, well it was a shit spray from start to finish.
Despite this and the waterlogged course, we managed to work as a tight unit and threaded our way through the puddles to mark a good time of 24.46 for the 10 miles - a PB for both of us and 4th fastest on the night - however when the handicaps were duly calculated, we slipped down the order somewhat !
Points is points though, and the experience of riding in such conditions was epic !
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