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| Olive's first race looking as if she's enjoying it? |
Windmill Hill is in the same area as Porridgepot Hill and we know how tough that is, this was no different with short steep hills, testing singletrack and hardly anywhere to recover. As usual it had rained all week and whilst everywhere on our trip up was flooded the course at Deepcut was in pretty good condition and despite the previous week’s soggy outlook the weather was dry and sunny.
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| Andy J |
In an effort to space out the mass of riders, a grassy start loop took
competitors away briefly from the comfort of the arena, before the
plunged into the final sections of singletrack that took them through
the start/finish line. This seems to be working well as by the time we were dropping into the early singletrack the usual jostling for position and traffic jam was more or less over.
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| James H |
Onto the race, it was brutal, there were only a couple of short areas to quickly feed and drink before you were straight into another climb or descent. The singletrack was great fun, unfortunately the two bomb holes were a little difficult to get out of with the surface breaking up and one was diverted after the first lap(quick thinking by the Gorrick crew) and the other had a chicken run just in case(which I took my last 3 laps).
We had a good turn-out with Olive coming 9th in Ladies 2hrs, Ollie Fenton 4th and James Hansford 9th in 2hr Juniors, Damian Redmond 25th in 2hrs vets, Ian P 7th, John D 24th, Andy J 48th and Kevin M 59th in 4hr Vets.
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