Well, despite all my positive thinking, no amount of public posturing on this blog could get me to a PB this year. I really enjoyed the whole day experience though (you can read the full report here), catching up with faces from the past afterwards – David, John and Matthew Bardgett (nice first time ride Matt), Sam Clark, Matthew Pixton, brother Dave and Andrew Talbot, to name but a few. However, surfing the web this week has cast up images like this one of me looking like an elephant on a bike. Friends Trev and Leanne rib me saying I have body dysmorphic disorder, but seriously folks I do need to lose a stone or two of if I am to improve on my 4 hours 40; I had better get out training! Off to watch Dave, Rob, Lewis et al in the Exeter National Trophy Cross this afternoon to show me how it is done. See you next year…. Phil Haygarth
