It's been an interesting weekend: brass monkey stuff on Friday and fog today. It's been a long time since we've seen fog here but there was certainly some about this morning. Still, everyone seemed to get to the event on time. It might have been a bit difficult to see your '30sec man' but the conditions quite clearly allowed a heap of good times to be posted; and 55 PBs - not bad, considering the number of first time (with ATTA) riders. What a great ride from Matt Illingworth, stripping 1min15 from his course record. Pretty good times came from the Silver and Bronze medallists too of course: Chris Roberts and Guy Crawford. But, at the same time that Matt and his mates were dissipating the fog, Kate and Sandy were having their way with the Women's course record: Sandy skimmed 10sec from her previous mark that gave her the new record for exactly 27min27.5 when Kate slipped past the finish line a net 2.5sec quicker. The margin between the third and fourth girls, Jessica and Emma, was even less: just 0.3sec. Michael Guerin had no trouble earning the right to host the Jack Norris trophy at his place for the next twelve months with a huge 48min standard. Well done all of you!

Quite a few riders today were there in preparation for the Busso 'half' in a few weeks time and a number had asked for early starts so they could continue the punishment with a run off the bike. Christo celebrated his birthday on his new set of wheels with a 4+min PB and, we're told, saved his run (all 32km of it!) until later in the day. However two, Tony Highfield and Mark Robson integrated their run with their ride: having punctured (three times in Mark's case), they simply continued, to cross the finish line on foot.

Terri Usher dragged Jeff down from the hills just so he could ride his bike and she could look after the desk once again. Today she had the assistance of 'Team Geneve': Leanne and the girls (Christa and Annie); Susie had the course signed well before daylight, not that we could see it. Some of us had trouble finding the exit from the Freeway, let alone the turnoff to DeHaer. While we left the care of the two major intersections to the WARP crew, Andy Candy and Rick Churchill marshalled our two remaining hotspots while Susie wore the starter's hat and counted down our second-biggest field for the season. Lorraine managed a quick 20km before she was out again monitoring the on-course behaviour of riders. Many thanks to all of you.

On a less happy note however, one of our members took somewhat longer than he'd reckoned on his way home: he spent considerable time collecting discarded gel wrappers from the roadside around the course. It prompted him to ask: who cleans up after this mob at home? Some riders today did the right thing but, clearly not all! Apart from the fundamentally antisocial nature of this littering (even the illegality) is the risk of the loss of one of the better courses we enjoy. Is it so hard to stick the empty wrapper up the leg of your knicks or in a pocket and dispose of it when you get back to your car or in one of the numerous rubbish bags around our assembly area?