Borage Officialanis!🤷
Hitting Cambridgeshire-Suffolk in the rather high quality Shaftesbury Cup ‘50’ mile TT - solid riding with a 14th overall and just learnt winning the Standard prize (age and gender adjusted)....the time of 1-43-20 also good enough to add to my collection of National Age records and also a North Midlands record....but actually a mediocre speed day reflected in hitting 25 miles in 50min 09secs but taking 53-11 into a fresh headwind on the return, rather unfortunate on what was otherwise a lovely morning.Adding to the “loveliness” were fields and fields of a gorgeous crop with purple flowers that caught my eye, later being informed this is the aforementioned Borage Officialanis - clearly a commercial crop and apparently used in medicine for various skin complaints.😎
You learn something new every day Few sleeps now until the ‘full fat’ National 25 on Sunday....not sure why I entered, unsure to what is more daunting, being on a pushbike on the A50, or the fact I set off 2nd from last with scratch man, professional, multiple UK record holder and multi champion Marcin Biablocki chasing me, hoping to get a few miles in before I’m caught.....what’s the contact number for Age Concern? 
[Second year I've done this, of course only cos its fast...but too friggin early in the morning..I'm sure, I just do not get it together 100% so early - I know I can break 1-40...but but...perhaps at 62 post Covid? ]
[Second year I've done this, of course only cos its fast...but too friggin early in the morning..I'm sure, I just do not get it together 100% so early - I know I can break 1-40...but but...perhaps at 62 post Covid? ]
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