I managed to get corporate tickets for the 2nd day (Saturday) of the 1st Test at Lords. Breakfast, lunch, booze and tickets thrown in for free. I returned on the Sunday with Ozzy and Chris to soak up the sun and action from day 3.
I was tempted into entering this race in Goring-on Thames, by a work collegue Simon Bamber. It is an offroad duathlon including 2 x 5km runs up the ridgeway with a 20km offroad bike ride sandwiched in between. A fantastic race, both challenging to all competitiors but in a fairly relaxed atmosphere. I managed a 58th place out of 104 individual entries in 2 hours 3 minutes, with the old man Bamber securing 49th. Laz joined as well and finished 84th.
Tony's uncle, Richard Clothier kindly hosted clay shooting at his place in Fyfield, near Oxford. Sars and I had never shot before and were ably assisted by Richard, Tony, Ben (Tony's cousin) and Matt Mottram.
The second 'running' of this race for me. This year Simon and Laz were scared off by their debuts the previous year, but I was joined by Matt Mottram, a friend of Tony's, as well as Sars and Dan who entered the team competition. Sars planned to enter as an individual but unfortunately damaged her knee in training for the race, and Dan kindly offered to step in and do the running legs with Sars competing on the bike. I improved my time on 2004 by 1 min and 10 seconds, but with a enlarged field meant I placed 65 out of 125 individual entries. Matt placed 58th, 2 minutes ahead of me and Sars and Dan finished just ahead of me in 36th out of the teams.
Lashings Cricket Club are a roving club contracting some of hte biggets names in the crciket world to take part in fundraising games around the world. Each year the starts of yesteryear descend on Wimbledon Cricket Club. In 2004, we were treated to a feast of cricketing legends including Sir Viv Richards, Courtney Walsh, and Richie Richardson.
