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Nice photos, maybe I'll get a place and give it a go next year.
I rode the Central League at RAF Halton yesterday. Amazing course, probably the best I've ridden, though others play more to my strengths. Legs didn't really feel like they had any snap so I spent most of the race failing to make any headway into a 20 second gap. Still a fourth, and I managed to avoid rolling a tub, which half of the field didn't seem to do.
Jon.
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So here's a very telling pair of images from the 3 Peaks.
In the first one, it's business as usual, Rob Jebb stretching out a lead on the climb up Simon Fell onto Ingleborough. Further down the slope you can see two riders, the one carrying his bike is Paul Oldham.
Coming into the timing funnel on the other side of the hill, Jebb and Oldham were neck and neck, a scene that was repeated at the Ribblehead viaduct following the decent from Whernside.
Here, ascending Pen Y Ghent, Oldham has finally been able to turn that deficit around and was able to maintain a lead to beat Jebb by 1 minute and 16 seconds.
But with Oldham only a couple of years younger than Jebb, he isn't expected to copy the reign of domination and the outcome of next year's race is a lot less certain than it has been for almost 20 years.
It was an absolutely beautiful day out there and hopefully @ajack will be able to give us a report from the saddle side of the racing.