Riding behind the leader

Did pretty much what Andy this week.

Exceptions were a falling heart rate the harder I cycled (mine went up, I think that makes me normal but in this game you can never be sure), paying for the ferry half way through our 44 mile ride (I didn't and which Andy forget to mention - ferry avg speed about 3mph) and having a markedly cheery response to the news that we had just done a 7 mile detour during the Dartmoor sportive, down and back up one huge hill, cos we got lost (as you may have guessed I did not reposnd in quite this way - as a 63 mile hell ride turned into a 71 mile hellier one).

I am a finely balanced cycling machine, and had I known I would be riding an extra 10% race distance I would have done those early 20% hills at 1.2 rather than 1.3 miles per hour.

Finished about 10 mins behind Andy - we both got bronze medals, but only comfort is that without the detour, we likley may have both got silver, which was the standard rode by the cycle club around the course. Andy may have sneaked a gold.