As one of the founding members of "Team turtle" I thought I would let you into my etape experience. Arrived mid afternoon with speedy "Doc junior". We had planned to stay in a tent at Blairatholl on the Saturday night. When I phoned up for a bed and breakfast a few weeks earlier the women I spoke to just laughed and told me she might be able to get me a room in 2011.
Set up tent and everything was looking good, had preregistered. Then I discovered I had forgotten my camping mat and things started looking less ideal. Woke about 5.30am to discover the tent was soaking and "Doc Junior" was impossible to wake. Got to Pitlochry at about 6.30am and set of to find a quick breakfast. Bought a bacon roll and a coffee. Was quite looking forward to it when Doc Junior said what's that plastic thing on everyones front wheel. Bugger the timing chips were still in the car.
Ran back to the car part with now only 15mins to my start, I almost choked on the bacon roll. Anyway we started the etape with chips secured in place, 50 meters down the path Doc Junior drops his expensive glasses case. Decide to turn round and pick it up so that he did not get a roasting when he got home. Everything went relatively well until the Schehallion climb. With the exception that I had lost speedy 10 miles earlier. Started up the climb and my chain started to slip. The next thing I knew I had broken many teeth off my cassette. Then to add insult to injury I got a puncture.
Some how managed to cut my finger changing the tube. Managed to limp home in a shamful time. The bike jumped with every revolution from 50 miles onwards . It reminded me of my first moped that did not have a second or fourth gear!
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