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19th August 2011
Gilly and I spent the Friday and Saturday down at Bournemouth watching the airshow and exploring. Stayed at the Chine Hotel at Boscombe which was good. Spent Saturday cycling down to Sandbanks, catching the ferry over to Studland, lunch at Studland Bay and cycling back to Boscombe. Nice weekend, although marred by the sad news when we got home that one of the Red Arrows had crashed. A real shame as we had spent hours watching them perform their amazing feats. R.I.P
More images here...
7th August 2011
This annual 25 mile team time trial on the Bentley By-Pass is usually an interesting event and this year was no exception. Myself, Andy Lovell, James Chapman & Matt Cheyney were put together by our team boss to produce a blend of youth and experience! Just before we set off, Matt commented "last time I did a TTT I clipped the guy in fronts wheel and ended up in ditch", which filled us all with confidence. We set off and and it became apparent that Matt was not comfortable with riding in close formation and it soon became ragged. Convinced that he had a puncture Matt peeled off and left the 3 of us to carry on, we did for awhile only to find Matt was back and we then carried on as a team of 4. Unfortunately this didn't last for too long as James clipped Matts rear wheel, went off in the verge and miraculously stayed on his bike, we re-grouped and finished minus Matt in a time of 57:31 in 6th place.
Phil however riding with Seb, Graeme and Tom rode very well together, although Tom Chapman only managed to hang on for 10 miles. The guys recorded a very fast 52:06 to finish in 2nd place about a minute behind the VC St. Raphael team.
Race 4 Life
Gilly, Alison and Clare raised a lot of money for cancer research, Gilly who was injured at the time walked and jogged round in this popular event.
Cycling
Phil started off in this 2nd/3rd cat race between Dorking and Box Hill extremely well, getting into a break with 2 other riders for most of the race, unfortunately the course was fairly flat and they were caught with just over a lap to go. Pushing to the extreme Phils "lucky" tag he got caught up in trouble on the home straight with a rider being pushed into his side, luckily Phil managed to stay on his bike but the damage to his bike was extreme with a cracked carbon frame and a damaged rear wheel! Fortunately Cannondale have been amazingly good and taken the old one back and replaced it with an even better one!
A few pics here....
14th July 2011
Family holiday in Spain, Hotel Atalaya in between Marbella & Estepona and right on the beach. Caught the bus to Puerto Banus and also hired a car to take a memorable trip to Gribraltar, also a very brief visit to Marbella.
More monkey pics here....
