Ouch!

As I was saying earlier, the reason I almost didn't start was I (stupidly) had a spill before I even arrived at the start! It was dark and I cut a corner on the bike track and hit the gutter, coming off and blowing the front tyre. Embarrassing! Stupid too, as I know that track very well (just not that raised bit!).

I was lucky I didn't do any other damage to the bike and only once I had changed the tyre did I realise I did a nice graze of the elbow - stingy! I'll pop some lemon on it later.

On with the show...