Wow! Extremely hard day out at Beverley today for a reduced 25 mile (to 20 mile) 3 up team time trial. Set off with a howling tail wind and quickly descended into a shambles when I peeled off and immediately got distanced by Al’s surge, after a telling off by Andy (our Dad) we then kept the change-overs smooth as Andy’s bald patch

 The pace was furious up to the turn near Driffield with the average nearly approaching 30 MPH. A Westerly turn then put us into a block head wind and we ground our way along what was becoming increasingly undulating terrain. At this point we boosted our morale by taking our 3 minutes team, the look on their faces was worth the entrance fee in itself!!!! :-)  

The Southerly stretch was absolute murder with the wind blowing us into the side of the road and not affording the 2nd and 3rd wheel much respite. The hills were relentless but again we worked well powering over them.

After a spell with me (YES ME) on the front going up a hill, Alastair was distanced by 200 meters or so and shouting furiously!!!! (His chain had come off, not me dropping him  From there on in it was a massive push to try and regain the chunk of time lost and we all suffered like dogs burying ourselves for the Thorper cause

We posted a reasonable time of 49.22 and finished 9th of 16, 7 and 10 seconds behind the next 2 teams :-(  and under 5 minutes off Dawson, Brown and Johnston from Sportcover

It just dawned on me that we had 7 miles tailwind and 13 head wind so not bad really, now for a curry and some beer….ALLEZ LE VERTS!!!!!!!!!!