Leo 30

This was all about going for the 30 mile club trike record. It is the twilight of the season and all I've got left to race TT-wise was this 30 miler down on the ECCA 30 course and then Pete's trike weekend.

First things first then - a trip down to Cambridge for the Leo 30 event, held on familiar roads where just six or seven weeks ago, I was on the same track for the 12 hour.

This day saw probably the best time trialling conditions of the year with blue skies and a reported 2mph northerly wind. the first part of the course was on a stretch of single carriageway of a mile or so which was semi-trike friendly but I had to have me wits about me. Looked downhill to the DC, whereby I let rip and enjoyed the seemingly still conditions. I rode the trike quickly but reserved where the road went upward, I couldn't beleive how well I was travelling, and managed to fly along the A11 & A14 at a very fast pace - when I got to the turn at Red Lodge, I was averaging 25.2mph - and honestly I was thinking of how near to the Comp record I could get with the backwind on the return.

Had I been giddy ? Of course !

It was a headwind, which went against the weather forecast, however, made perfect sense as I had been going full beans on the way out. That 25.2mph was the peak of my efforts of the day as I battled the headwind on the way back trying not to let the wind erode away at it too much.

Damage limitation meant that when I finished what was a 30.1 mile couse in the end, I had maintained an ave of 24.4mph for a 1.13.55 finish - 6 mins of the club record !  I had also picked up a puncture along the way as well, as by the time I got back to HQ, there was just 20
psi left in the front tyre.