Le Mans Aid#

Wed, 27 Sep 2006 13:47:43 +0000

Our team came 12th overall, with 179 laps. Last year the LSST team 1 came 37th (and the team 2, which I was in, 137th). So, woohoo. Personally, my fastest lap was 7:45, and average 8:09.

So, a good result for the team, a personal result that I'm not entirely happy about (despite anything I might have said at the end of last season about aiming for sub 9 minute average ;-). Comparing averages with my teammates I'm about seventh, so really, fortunate that we were racing with each other instead of against each other on this occasion. I could blame my stack on the second lap (slipped on a setdown, staggered a bit, superman slide into the crash barrier on both knees and elbows) having rather taken the wind out of my sails for the rest of the event, but I think it's more likely to be my general crapness (previously discussed) at going around corners, and at catching people who are going faster than me. I should spend more time chasing cyclists.

Not been out much since, though I'm hoping that the sulk will wear off soon. New boots are - well, they're still lovely, but wearing them for eight out of twenty-four hours over a weekend with 35 degree temperatures was probably not the best way to acclimatise my feet to them, and I now have some interesting raw patches on my anklebones. (On the outsides, which suggests that I haven't really learnt my edges perfectly yet). But I don't have massive pain from my lumpy inner ankle shooting up my leg constantly as I did in the old boots, so on balance I'm pretty happy still. Or would be if I wasn't sulking.

Side note: Hans got second place in the soloist cagetory, survived mostly intact, and so far has raised two thousand quid for charity, which I think is pretty damned impressive on all counts.