On Sunday afternoon we went out to watch the British National Cycle Road Racing Championship which was being held on a course around Ampleforth Abbey which is not far from us. It was a really good afternoon's racing and we got to see the race in three different places around the circuit.
I enjoy this race as you always get lots of the top professionals who usually race on the continent come back for it. This year there was a good turnout from the Sky team although unfortunately no Bradley Wiggins or Mark Cavendish who were both conserving their energy for the Tour de France which starts next Saturday. The race was won by Ian Stannard who is one of the Sky riders. He got in a breakaway with four other riders quite early on and then rode away from them about 30km from the finish to claim a well deserved solo win.
We had a bit of a disastrous end to the afternoon though when my wife fell on some uneven ground and ended up in hospital with a broken arm. She had to have surgery to repair the break with a plate and other bits of metal work so no doubt she will now set all the alarms off whenever we go through security at airports. Hopefully she will be coming home today, the bad news is that I'll have to do all the washing up for a while!
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