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Snowdrop 2019 (L-R John, Ron, Jamie, K, Doo) |
On 23 February 2019, I completed my 9th Snowdrop audax. This is a beautiful audax that starts and finishes in Hartlebury and passes through Upton and Evesham. It includes the infamous 'Pig Hill', aka 'Phil's Hill'.
This was the first audax event that I ever entered, way back in 2010. This was the first time that K had ridden an audax event. Over the years have cycled this event with many different friends. This time around, I mostly cycled with John M, Ron, Jamie and K. The WT's (Wythal Team*) were here and included Andy Genders, Tony, Phil and a guy whose name I can never remember. My blind buddy Roger cycled this event too (on his tandem) and a number of his tandem partners were here also.
As with all adventures, there are many points of note. Here is a selected few:
- It was a super warm (hot) day. How I wished I had a short sleeved top.
- Not all my buddy's hung around for the obligatory start photo for the purpose of this blog.
- Phil conquered Pig Hill. Guess we can no longer dub it 'Phil's Hill'.
- Mark Rigby was the controller at Upton. Ron threw all the stuff off his table.
- Roger got round in a super quick time which was just awesome, especially considering he was blind, over 70 years old and punctured!
- Ron caused me to have indigestion - I had to speed eat my super expensive burger at Raphael's due to time constraints ;)
- I plan to ride this event again next year.
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Snowdrop 2010 |
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Snowdrop 2012 |
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Snowdrop 2013 |
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Snowdrop 2014 |
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Snowdrop 2015 (Turned up too late for group start photo) |
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Snowdrop 2016 |
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Snowdrop 2017 |
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Snowdrop 2018 |
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