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kudos to you sir
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Hey mate
Hope you heal up and if you leg still sore in next 48 hours I would get it checked out.
Your fall scared the crap out of me and my club mates.
Top effort for carrying on tho. -
Chapeau sir.
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Good to see you - the crash obviously didn't slow you down that much as you only got in about 10 minutes after us.
Hopefully see you at WCW. Though may not be capable of speech by that point.Great Escape was a lot of fun though very un-audax. The first control was quite surprised to see I'd been actually filling in the answers on my brevet card.
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@mustardbeak
Mixed day for me, hit a pothole after about 17 miles at speed and had a spill, skinned my fingers, banged up my knee, thigh and elbow quite bad.
After taking stock and some help from @omash27 who happened upon chance to be behind me, I decided to take a dose of HTFU and get on with it. Spent the next few miles bleeding all over myself until I got to a garage and got some bits to patch myself up.
Smashed through the first 120k, started struggling a bit, I didn't take enough of a break at the control at lunch, it was so busy I pushed on until I found a shop, had a co-op pasta salad which annoyingly made me feel sick for the next hour.
At about 160k my thigh was giving me trouble and I was cramping, decided to stop at the pub and had half an ale, some salted peanuts, a bit of the epic flapjack I had left and a gel which sorted me out.
Picked up a reasonable pace on the way back but was suffering, the route back is grim but unavoidable.
Great day out, despite my off.
Glad I carried on a finished as last year I would have packed for certain. Another one ticked off for RRTY.