PTW

A bright and sunny Sunday morning met the squadra chrono for another early start at Llandovery. First out of the blocks was supposed to be Andy Evans, number 5......

Shouting at his travelling companion Scott Davies of cardiff ajax at the race HQ car park (off Number 8 ) "Come on mate, we'll be late" they headed off to the start..................of the 50............ Error number 1........

Realising something was wrong when they found there were no timekeepers at their percieved start line, they headed back to the race HQ and noticed people heading off down the back road to Llangadog. 3 miles later as cleverly described on the start sheet, they found the missing timekeepers and reported for duty, 6 minutes late for Andy and 3 minutes late for Scott. They now had to wait until some gaps appeared which was to be around half an hour later which meant that first out of the blocks was John Littlewood at 9. He returned in 1:07:53.

As there was no rain, snow, hail or any hint of a Baaad Chest at Llangynwyd this morning, Stuart Evans was up bright and early and tore around the course in a 1:02:45 and with a vets plus of 16:45 walked off with the vets prize.

12 minutes later, I set off and recorded a 1:4:46 which I was quite pleased about as it almost matched my personal best for that course on what was a tough day.

Unfortunately we wiill have to wait a little for John Pritchard's long awaited return to the TT field as his alarm failed to go off and Pritch recorded a DNS.

So what happened to our intrepid explorers Andy and Scott I hear you ask......... Well word is that they eventually set off one minute apart. Off went Andy and at Llanwrda, we was catching his minute man....... and Scott was catching him........... All good so far.........

However, the rider that Andy was catching caught site of a CTT direction arrow tucked away in a hedge.... (Apparently this was a momento from last week and was in fact a direction arrow to the start of last weeks 30). Left went the unnamed rider........ Left went Andy....... Left went Scott........ Then sharp right............and BRAKE!!!!!!! straight into a farm yard to molest some sheep........ Error number 2

After a great deal of gnashing of teeth they returned to the main highway and Andy recorded a 1:12:30 (including 6 mins late start) whilst Scott recorded a
1:5:12 including a 3 min late start.....

So there you go THE FIRST TIME TRIAL I HAVE BEATEN MR ANDY EVANS....... I MUST BE FLYING

More tales of woe next week

Andy, one sheep was quit taken with you and would like your tel no. IT gave me quit a shock as i,v never seen a talking sheep before.

PMS laughing great report Les.
But whtats happend to our road race reporter, two weekends of nothing.

Aye it was an eventful day! I still think stuart took the honours on the day though! good ride Stu.
To top what was already turning out to be a disasterous day, Scot had this great idea to ride home from Llandovery to Cardiff - flat he told me it was! so we set off, I looked at my HR as we started to climb out of llandovery - it read 170 - scot then gave me some Bullshi* saying it would settle down in a moment. 1/2 hour later i turned it off showing 175 - must be broken i thought!
Feeling more than a little tired and quads beginning to cramp up, scot had a great idea for a shortcut through Defynog - great - suddenly I was met with an 18% beast of a climb that brought us out at the bottom of the Story arms! urgh! legs now in bits and out of the saddle efforts not allowed,(Les will know what mine were like after the 12 last year)I called in my rescue team AKA the wife and about 12 mile later I was thankfully picked up just outside Merthyr!
The moral of the day - make sure you print off the start sheet and read it, also dont follow the guy in front - cos he probably hasn't a clue where he's going either!
PS, Had a call last night from one of the sheep on the farm - she said I didnt do too BAAAAAD! LOL