"England's Toughest Triathlon' got a little too exciting for The Otter who narrowly missed involvement in a multi bike pile up at 40mph.
In fact I was thinking that on the descent from the Kirkstone Pass 'you really wouldn't want to fall off here'. it was a smooth road and very steep with oncoming traffic. Going about as fast as it's possible on a push bike, overtaking girls who were holding onto their brakes. So around a particular corner there were cars and bicycles all stopped, course I couldn't stop just wheeled past all the carnage. The Otter who saw it all happen graphically in front of him had just managed to skid to a stop and then had been directing traffic.
One rider had clipped the verge and somersaulted through the air followed by the one behind crashing into him. broken bones, shock, lack of movement, ambulance called etc. But anyway The Otter had already decided that due to bio mechanical issues with one knee he wasn't going to be running up and down Helvellyn so it was a DNF and a clear victory for me 5hr 15 mins which was crap of course.
Ullswater was totally baltic at 8.30am and even though I had that new-to-me carbon frame at least 200 people came passed me on the cycle.
The highlight had to be the climb from Ambleside up to the Kirkstone Pass Inn which was standing on the pedals the whole way 1 in 5 or 1 in 3 at one point and there was a guy stopped at the side of the road really honking his guts up through over exertion, you don't often see that.
I wasn't going to start walking with my bike I had to cycle up the damn thing, they don't call it "the struggle' for nothing.
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