Alastair and myself rode the 2 up yesterday over on the Jodrell Bank course, a course full of bloody pot holes and terrible roads but in lovely countryside. We posted a time of 1:01:34 which we were both delighted with. You could tell we had given it our all by the state of us after, even I didn’t talk for nearly 5 minutes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Andy wilkinson won the event with a time of 54 minutes so to think he only put 7 into us was pleasing with the exceptional form he has been showing. 

 Thanks for the advice on Tuesday’s club night, it worked a treat changing roughly every minute for the first half then when 2nd wheel felt the pace dropping on the 2nd half. Through the whole race I think we only distanced each other twice and that was only by a metre or 2. 

Team Trials are a great buzz and a good laugh actually so we’re going to try and get a few teams up for next years events, there’s the Nova CC 2 up in late Feb and a 3 up in Hull early March. Mid March there’s a 2 up again in
Hull, so with plenty of events it would be great to see a bit of inter team rivalry between the Thorpers. The long term aim could be to enter the nationals and really embarrass ourselves!!!!!