Sunday 23 January 2022

Cyclo-cross day out

 Watching others get muddy!!


The essential coffee cart!

First off the youngsters... instructions, it's not a race, just go as slow or fast as you want! Have fun!!



Just 20 minutes for them and prizes for all!

Then the B race, 45 minutes and a lap...


Men off first, then the 20+ women a few minutes after.  Everyone wears a transponder so that the lap times and number of laps is on a computer as well as recorded by hand (just in case!!)



I had two clubmates in the race, and one won it! ( The red is our winter kit)

Then the A race...I watched the start....


Not sure what happened...but in a bunch of well over 50 riders no-one ride into him and he was back on his bike straight away...

I didn't stay to watch that race, but sheltered from the rising breeze in my car..and knitted a test square in my new yarn as well as reading some of a book....

Late lunch then in The Coo Shed, run by a farming family who sell milk in a vending machine, have a small garden centre and have a 70...probably now down to 50...seat café selling food prepared there.

The lights....


Are milking clusters...

The cow theme goes right through the place....Toilets...Udderly bursting...Kitchen....farmhands only.....the hook on the back of the toilet cubicle doors are shaped like the back half of a cow....


And the food and drink is top class!

Pirate rode the nine miles home from there...better than starting from the race and crossing a very busy A77. Home before dark, just! 

Then time to put our feet up  before supper!


6 comments:

Joanne Noragon said...

A big day.

gz said...

Joanne, a good day

Amy said...

oh yes, gotta have coffee, looks like a fast race.

Cro Magnon said...

Those lights are pure genius. I've seen almost everything turned into lights, but never a milking cluster.

kjsutcliffe said...

the milking cluster lights are brilliant :D sounds like who ever decorated the café had fun doing so :)

gz said...

The decor was organised by the farming family who run everything, and they employ plenty of locals too