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Well I'll admit tonight was a shambles.
Lost my water bottle somewhere between work and RP - wasn't keen on exertion without hydration so I doubled back to recover it (it had been flattened. woe. it was one of those nice camelbak podium jobbies and everything). Ended up at RP 15 minutes late. Caught Friday well in the groove, few laps in perfect harmony and then we ended up with a bit of a split between us.
Some guy in Rollapaluza kit was going the other way round the inner circle, turned out to be Brent (a reasonably nippy chap) who recognised me from Swaintoux, so he changed directions and I did a few laps with him, with Friday nowhere to be seen.
THEN Brent heads to the outer circle, and I follow, and it turns out there's a ton of Rollapaluza going round (Max, Sem?, a few faces I recognised), so I do that for three laps. Bump into Friday again who is flying. Give up chasing him, sit down with the paluza pack for a bit. Then everyone buggers off to the pub.
20 miles at 22.7mph, 3 pints and ,with my skinny frame, a very wobbly ride home.Would recommend, hopefully more of the same next week.