Was pushing off at my club's open 25 at Marlow this morning. Loads of DNSs and a good few late starts. One of them arrived a bit flustered saying he'd taken a wrong turn. We set him off soon afterwards then another rider said they'd seen him riding back up the slip road from the M40!
Other notable thing was that while virtually everyone waited until the TK said go, two guys wanted to set off a couple of seconds early so instead of pushing them off I had to hold them back. First time I'd pushed off in an open so no idea if that is normal.
I was number 30, unfortunately I didn't make it all the way around, but blame wedding/no breakfast/puncture on way to start line for that, at least I made the start line!
Good to meet you retrospectively! Sorry you didn't make it round, but getting married on the way to the start line seems like a reasonable excuse! ;)
It was cold when you started but it warmed up later and seemed like a reasonable day. But I had to shoot off so haven't seen the final times yet.
Was pushing off at my club's open 25 at Marlow this morning. Loads of DNSs and a good few late starts. One of them arrived a bit flustered saying he'd taken a wrong turn. We set him off soon afterwards then another rider said they'd seen him riding back up the slip road from the M40!
Other notable thing was that while virtually everyone waited until the TK said go, two guys wanted to set off a couple of seconds early so instead of pushing them off I had to hold them back. First time I'd pushed off in an open so no idea if that is normal.