It was a strange start to the day - very foggy around the river but clear by the time we reached the bus stop.

But it was good enough to entice Young Freddy out of 'retirement' - it's so close to home, he couldn't resist; and it was great to see him - still ahead of his Standard! And the other man who made a welcome return was Big Stu - pumping out 5 beautifully metronomic laps, the fastest time of the day with a PB. Herne Hill is also the local training track for Kim and Steff VanA and they made the most of their familiarity with a couple of PBs, 2min each to the better and Steff pinning the fastest time for the women once again.

Ian Turner celebrated his 100th ATTA ride with a PB (rounding off the 40k club for the day) and Nick Churchill made his first appearance for a while, his fiftieth ATTA ride. Twenty seven PBs was not a bad return for the morning.

Geraldine James on the rego desk effected a timely connection with Telstra so that progress results were still accessible. Tom Higgins was her partner back there at the school; out on course the very animated Joe Grasso steered riders through the exit from Lefroy onto Oakover while Alex Dragicevich was your man on the entrance to William Street (as Don, his dad, thumped out one of today's PBs); our professional friends from WARP took charge of the other two corners; Troy again set up our share of the course and managed a nifty 42km/h 2 lapper while Lorraine was our starter and Cathi Dixon our number spotter for the timing backup. THANK YOU all