Doubts that today’s attendance may have been in low single figures, (apparently there’s been a bit of a conflicting bash in London), were comfortably dispelled with a healthy turnout of 15 Trekkers at Leeds Road this morning.
Amongst attendees were newcomers Mark (Pilot) and Graham (Stoker) from York as well as Jo (Pilot) from Glossop. All were super cyclists, though Jo says she’d like to join another track session before committing to membership.
It was also great to see Katie back on the rear saddle and to renew an acquaintance with Ian P who piloted with us a few years ago.
The weather was more than very decent allowing Keith to run a couple of versions of our slow race. Honours went to Brian and Chris who narrowly pushed our resident dynamic duo (Stevie and Muz) into second place. But hot on the duo’s heels were Ian and Katie and with only a slender 1.5 seconds separating the three pairs, competition was intense. Indeed, it was probably only due to the fact that Simon and Graham had just been lapping everyone and the word “slow” hadn’t quite sunk in, that they narrowly missed out on a podium place.
Myself and Somon agreed we would be last to make everyone else look good :),
Many thanks to Paul for the induction and Simon for being a great pilot.
It was a great session today. Obviously Muz and I were just setting an achievable benchmark in the slow race 😉