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\"P1100820\"<\/a>It's taken me this long post-ride to be able to sit comfortably enough to actually write my blog… actually, amazingly - I managed the whole thing with no more side effects than an ocean of bike oil down my ankle and being bent virtually double from the 2 hour journey in the back of Ross's van (alongside my bike, boxes of Myeloma t-shirts and general bike race crud) down to the cottage afterwards.<\/p>\n

But it went REALLY WELL. I think there were 42 riders in the end – youngest being Max and Will, the sons of my Aces hockey teammates Jill and Caroline, plus Jo's daughter Ella and the oldest being Sophie's lovely parents who had come down from 'oop north' (as had Rachel from Manchester, v good effort Webbo).<\/p>\n

Hawksey had masterminded the whole event – so picture a plethora of bikes all arriving in Richmond Park at 8.45am (well, apart from Pam and Jude, always endearingly tardy!), riders then clad in the delightful orange & black Myeloma t-shirts and then heading off in 5 groups of differing abilities in the general direction of Windsor. (Why did my group, the first one off as we are the slowest, head right out of the car park and go one way round the park when all the other groups apparently went left? You'll have to ask Nicky 'Interesting Sense of Direction' Anderson that one. Maybe she was trying to save us from a big hill..).<\/p>\n

Ross & Janine brough Flea the white van along – resplendent with a fresh new Myeloma banner kindly made by Sarah & Paul Taylor – who with Swighty (still recovering from breaking her achilles for the second time – never play in the sand when it's not quite mended hey Swight?) were a marvellous support team, handing out t-shirts, taking entry fees and rushing to the midway stop to then replenish water, bananas and cereal bars – literally, a top banana effort from them.<\/p>\n

All culminated in a triumphal arrival into Windsor – and, at 3,500 calories burned, the most well-earned burger and chips washed down with a pint of shandy that I shall ever have in my life!<\/p>\n

SO lovely that everyone turned out – from Lucy Richardson on her ancient jalopy with dodgy chain, to Claire & Jon White swopping over half way so one of them could ride their bike while the other followed by car with the 3 kids, to the MAMIL (middle aged men in lycra) crowd of H's mates and beyond..<\/p>\n

We did get chased by a grumpy man in a Range Rover and the security guards as we pedalled through Wentworth private estate but it only added to the entertainment of the day. And god knows how Batch and Clarkie then pedalled all the way back home too – even the MAMIls didn't fancy that – but then they were doing the London-Brighton the next day as well so maybe that was their excuse…<\/p>\n

It put nearly \u00a31,000 directly onto Soph & Nicky's target plus the sponsorship money that people raised themselves, so a cracking event, a really good sunny June day and if England could only have won the football that night it would all have been perfect. Well, you can't have verything, can you?…<\/p>\n

S x<\/p>\n

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