Bike Race!

Rhodri was in his first bike race today - 53 miles long - and so of course the troops and I went out to cheer him on. The bike race is called the Burgess Hill Cyclosportive and was a big loop through mid-Sussex county where we live.
Our friend Huw came down from Bristol on Saturday night so that he could be in the race too. Here we are in Horsted Keynes waiting for Rhodri and Huw to come past.
I think we were actually the only supporters for the whole race! We shouted "Good morning" and "WOO-HOO" and "Good Job!" to everyone who rode past us and the troops were just starting to get a bit fed up with doing this when their Daddy whooped at us.
Here they come!
And there they go....Huw is the one in focus on his blue bike, Rhodri is in front nearly out of the photo. They were going so fast it was hard to capture!
After they zoomed past us, we played at the Horsted Keynes village playground for a bit and then drove around to Forest Row where we knew they would be riding past around 11:00- 11:30am. There is a good playground in Forest Row too, so we played there while waiting for the cyclists to go past and then we met them at a rest stop. Huw's friend Chris was riding with them as well. Here are Huw, Chris and Rhodri with the troops and their flags below:
They all finished the race in good time without any injuries and so it was a huge success!
We had a nice celebratory Sunday dinner and Huw got to stay the night as well (last time he came through he had to leave after dinner). Good times!