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With no race in the west midlands leage this weekend.
Ruth went to Didcot for some secret training.

Wessex leage round 8 Didcot RAL
Women's race 1st Ruth Eyles

Well done Ruth.
Wessex leage every week from now on then Ruth?

Gary

Fabulous!

Congratulations, Ruth. (First CX win?)

Superb, well done Ruth.

Great stuff Ruth. Is that your first Cyclo-cross win?

Dave

Thanks folks - but if you enter races with fewer and fewer opponents your probability of winning eventually rises to 100% and the level of performance required to win often drops lower as the numbers go down................... I did only beat 3 other women yesterday.

It's not my first 'cross win as I won at Top Barn, Holt Heath last December.

Anyway, here's a photo of me in action yesterday: Steeply up!

The race was at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratories near Harwell and the course was pretty unique as it was based on a massive mound of chalk which was excavated for a new facility on the site. There's a photo here of the whole site with the chalk mound in the foreground. It was a really good course with loads of steep climbing and virtually the whole course was on a camber on one side or other of the mound.

ps. and whereas Gary suggests this was 'secret training' I should point out that my brother works at RAL and knows some of those involved in putting on the event - so it became a family day out to cheer me on.

Missiles wrote:Thanks folks - but if you enter races with fewer and fewer opponents your probability of winning eventually rises to 100%.

Well, I once timed an event in which Brian was the only competitor, and I'm pretty sure he still managed to be the slowest.

Missiles wrote:There's a photo here of the whole site with the chalk mound in the foreground.

More importantly: what's that circular thing in the background? Are RAL planning to evacuate their key personnel to the gamma quadrant in the event of insurrection?

If you have any interest in particle physics RAL is well worth a visit if you get chance for a guided tour.

I suppose Brian's TT performance on the night I referred to was a sort of demonstration of quantum theory.

<I suppose Brian's TT performance on the night I referred to was a sort of demonstration of quantum theory.>

Sometimes George so much of what you say makes perfect sense

Congrats Ruth. And no matter the numbers ... you got to be in it, to win it.

Well done Ruth, great picture as well. More institutions and facilities could incorporate cycle circuits or tracks especially cyclo-cross. I tried to get a road circuit build into the new QE but although the architect and his son were keen racing cyclists, it was considered but wasn't possible - not least because of 24/7 emergency access.

jonnyri wrote:<I suppose Brian's TT performance on the night I referred to was a sort of demonstration of quantum theory.>

Sometimes George so much of what you say makes perfect sense

On this occasion George has it wrong because if Brian obeyed the laws of quantum physics, by observing him, George would have broken his wave particle duality and therefore prevented him being both fastest and slowest at the same time.

I'll get my coat..... Well done any way Ruth.

Steve that surely is the best MB post of all time, superb.

That explains a lot, Steve. Because every time I observe Brian, his wave particle duality does indeed appear disturbed.

Poor Brian. At this moment sitting in a corner wondering why....wondering why.....


....just wondering