Good Friday 2011 in Manchester

But I wanted to enter, and I'm (more) rubbish indoors.

I think there are some downsides too. It will just become 'another race' in the Manchester calendar, rather than the real big one at Herne Hill.

Looks like I will have to put in a lot more time indoors over the winter.

At least you won't have to abort your flying 200 because you are slipping around on a wet track and being hit by 35mph gusts of wind.

Although I guess the race formats will change slightly to suit the indoor track (think of the handicap sprint) and the rider numbers reduced accordingly, so as it's supposed to be an international invitation meeting the local HH bods who were kindly allowed to join in before will likely not feature.