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PostPosted: Tue Apr 06, 2010 7:10 pm    Post subject: Good Friday Reply with quote


Once again unfortunately the weather got the better of the Meeting. Despite an optimistic start with some good times in the preliminary time trials, the weather closed in just before the one o’clock official start. By two o’clock the rain was still falling heavily and a number of riders had already packed their bags and left for home, the sky was completely overcast and the home straight was becoming one long puddle. The weather forecast was that the rain had settled in for the day so the officials decided the only sensible course of action was to reluctantly abandon the meeting.

In truth, with no grand stand or other real cover to shelter in, the Velodrome quickly became a miserable place to be and it was amazing to see how quickly everyone vacated the site, leaving the various stallholders, and caterers to pack their unsold stock and think of what might have been.

Although the sun did return to dry the track in the late afternoon the decision to abandon was the right one because although the track dried out, the track centre remained waterlogged and the grass and mud around the track remained lethally slippery for spectators.

Everyone involved in the organisation of the meeting is extremely disappointed, not only at seeing the fruits of their labour being in vain, but for all the riders and spectators who had travelled from far and wide to be at what had promised to be a great meeting.

Franco Marvulli told the organiser, Graham Bristow, that he was pleased to have been invited and had been looking forward to riding at Herne Hill in the famous Good Friday Meeting and hoped that he would be able to return next year.

The Southern Counties CU would like to thank all of the sponsors and advertisers for their support for the meeting
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