SEEC Round 5 7th June 2009
 Driving down towards Tilgate Forest there was no mistaking on what the terrain was going be like, my windscreen wipers struggling to cope with the shear amount of rain that was hitting the glass. Not that I mind riding Tilgate when it gets slippery and technical, I won the event couple of years back in exactly the same conditions on a YZ 125, in theory the Yamaha WRF 250 should be a better bike?
Walking round the short Special test most of the going consisted of grippy loamy soil not the slippery clay that covers most of Tilgate. Thanks to the mountain bikers a couple of areas were out of bounds included a large chunk of Tilgate's infamous hills, pity because that’s what made it that little bit special. No doubt the Carshalton club would make our lives more than interesting with the bits they could use, even the sun came out for them.
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I was running late leaving work, been trying all morning to drink enough water to keep hydrated but it felt like I was on a losing battle, working in someone’s loft changing a tank in this heat you could count as inhumane torture, sweating more than I could drink…now there’s a lovely image.
Skipping my breakfast so I could finish early, first thing I did when I got home was wash the bike which was still dirty from Sunday’s gruelling P.M.C.R.C, 5 hour H & H. A quick change of rear wheel and a casual once over it was straight in the van, down the motorway for the 35 minute drive to Bagshot.
    
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