The 2nd of March saw Stephi and myself heading further south to the new forest to ride a 2 up 10 mile TT .
Now as a team we do seem to have a fascination with zoo's , and singing children's nursery rhymes such as daddy's gona take us to the zoo tomorrow, not the normal run of choice motivational songs!!! (Iona)
The day was slightly overcast but dry, and the location lovely right in the new forest.....
Stephi and I duly got our faithful steads ready, with much phaffing to be done!!
Onto the rollers and the turbo, and we were happily warming up.
A little time later, Stephi and I went down the rode for a bit just to get a little bit of 2 up practice in.
For both of us it was the first time we had ridden our TT bikes since last season, so a few adjustments here and there and we were almost ready to get down to the start......
On the way down, I spotted a few little donkeys in the road, we casually passed them by and over the cattle grid (Not sure Abe my TT bike likes cattle grids) down to the bottom of the road, and just to the left for the start.........
After last minute Important tasks to be done, we timed it to the start with perfection, mouth going dry, heart starting to race, 30 seconds to go, phaffing to get the position right, 5,4,3,2,1 off we went......it was about a mile to the first turn, which I have to say came up quite quickly, with the turn negotiated, it was a bit of a windy up and downy road , thus far the course I thought was nice, we were really enjoying it, and the scenery which will be more evident later on in this blog.....
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| Sandra and Stephi |
Had we reccied the course first we would have noticed a bit of a shortish sharp climb up to the next left turn, but we dug in deep and put a good hard effort in up to the left turn thanking the marshals as we went by.
As this road cleared of bushes and houses it proved to be a bit of a cross wind which was hard going but nonetheless we kept working hard, another bit of a small drag then another left where we were now on the top of the hill form the start.
There was a lovely swooping downhill to another stiff drag, however we did get held up by a car that got stuck behind another 2 up team. One final left hand turn and we had the finish in our sights, pushing harder and harder as you do, we crossed the finish line, happy with our efforts.......
The course was varied and interesting, and the wildlife a welcome site.
We started off the day seeing a couple of donkeys, then we saw horses, and then a couple of happy chomping pigs searching for truffles!!!
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| Our Friend |
But there was one species we couldn't identify!!
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| We have called him Steve, we realised he liked Coffee!!! |
We cooled down, and then went to the Nomansland Reading Room, to check the times, and we were pleased to see that we had won the ladies side of the competition, which was really nice.
We received some lovely prizes of Water bottles and some lovely flowers and some prize money, a totally well organised friendly event, of which I am certain we will be back again soon. Thank you to Antelope CC for a lovely well organised event.
