My first isle of man tour and my first time to the isle of man actually, so an all new experience. We left on the thursday, so i could get a ride round the road circuit and ready for the TT on friday. After a long drive up and a ferry which seemed to take forever, we finally got there and settled into our hotel.
When the 1 mile firday night TT came round the wind had got up and especially as it was down the promenade it made it alot worse. I got a ok time on the time trial, it was brilliant but i was happy with it. The next day on Saturday it was a very hilly road race on a circuit about 4 miles long. I got a good start and was around the top 10ish after the first hill, but then unfortunatly got knocked off by a crash right beside me, as if i hadn't had enough crashes this early in the season! i was ok and so was the bike so i got straight back on and started the long chase, this sounds familier. i got into a group with a few people and finished the race with them well down on the front group and lieing around 30th. The next day was a crit stage at the isle of man sports centre, round an 800m circuit. While i was riding round the circuit and whilst warming up, my knee was hurting alot, which meant i had to pull out of the race. So not a good weekend all in all, and my knee is still hurting so i'm off the bike for a bit. Still, i enjoyed the weekend i was nice just to go and see the isle of man. :)
