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21st-23rd August 2010
We all trundled down to Wool to support Phil in the Tour of Dorset, which should be renamed the Dorset Paddle. Rain, rain and more rain until the last stage on Monday finished and then out came the sun! An eventful tour saw Phil have an excellent time trial stage where he finished high up the order, even though he was on his roadbike (broken cable on TT bike). The road stage later on that day started well, but soon ruined when a crash held up Phil and his team mate James, they later finished 15 minutes down.
Day 2 was the hilly stage, in appalling conditions. Phil finished 11th, with his team mate Sam taking 1st place and the yellow jersey.
Day 3 started off in the rain, with showers throughout the race. Team Cannondales mission was to protect their team leader in the yellow jersey, they all worked really hard and it paid off with Sam securing the overall victory. And in true Armstrong style shared his winnings with his team-mates. Phil worked really hard today and with some luck on his side who knows what might have happened. Full results here...
Cycle trip to Lymington in the New Forest and Go-karting at Paul & Sue's,
Pictures here...
8th August 2010
Myself, Trevor, Gary Gunner & Graham Fielden all lined up for the 4-up Team Trial at Bentley, it started badly with firstly a gap forming at the start with Graham lagging, he then caught up and pulled a massive turn. Gary was not feeling good to start with, wouldn't go or couldn't go through and was ready to pack it in. Trevor had a word and we all got back together, this went well for a couple of miles, but I could already see that Graham was struggling.
After 5 or 6 miles we encountered a group of Gypsies who were racing their horse and carts, unbelievably the horse fell over in the middle of a dual carriageway and we had to slow right down, luckily they got the horse back up and were on their way pretty quickly. In the meantime we were able to weave slowly through the carnage and regroup albeit minus Graham. The three of us got into a very good rythym and were really motoring, Trev started to struggle a wee bit towards the end but we managed to finish in a 56:30, which considering all the interuptions wasn't too bad. Only finished 30 secs behind the "B" team with our "A" team taking the win. More pics here...
