11 of us today - and we stayed together all the way round to the very end! No drop outs this week...but it was shorter and slower than recently, partly due to the fact i did a 90 mile Sportive yesterday and partly because Gurpal had just done the 25 mile TT on the ski slope. Malcolm met us at the start with membership cards (and to tell some of us we hadn't paid yet...we have now! oops) Summer really feels like it has arrived, although it was a bit breezy!

I’m not sure how many turned up for Sundays Bird Hills club ride as the regulars where either doing a road race around the Drift Road or providing support.

This was the 1^st event in recent years where a team entered from the club for a road race.  The team consisted of Colin, Brett, Andy W and Michael S.  For Colin and Brett this was their first experience of road racing.

The Thursday 10 handicap competition standings are now available on the championships page, which also has a link to the results table so you can check your target times.

Due to lack of data I could not come up with target times for some people. If you have no times then let me know what your current 10 time is likely to be and I will update the table.

With the weather looking promising for a Sunday morning ride, 11 riders turned up for the Bird Hills group ride. Danuta was a little frustrated as she was refused a ride on a 25tt round the Drift Road course.   This was compounded by Saturday’s race on H10/181 being cancelled due to poor weather.   (I got hailed on for the 3^rd time on that course).   To make up for this, Danuta unusually suggested we should take the uphill route to Stoke Row past a radar dish, so with no objections and myself confirming I knew the road in question we set off.