Today was the day of the London Surrey Cycle Classic road race. They were testing out the proposed route for next year’s Olympics, and seeing as it passed only 2 or 3 miles from our house I thought I would pop out and watch the excitement.

It was all good fun. I arrived nice and early (I was the first person to park my car at my designated spot – I had picked a place which isn’t too close to where people live so it was quite nice and quiet), set up my chair and my knitting, and sat down to knit a couple of rows while I waited for the action. Here is my little encampment, the yellow bag contains the knitting:

As you can see from the view up the road:

And the view down the road:

I pretty much had the place to myself when I arrived. A few more people did come later, but it wasn’t exactly crowded.

After a bit of a wait, in which a couple of safety cars went by, and then an info car telling us a bit about how the race was going, the leading motorbikes arrived:

Shortly followed by the breakaway 2 riders, and first section of peloton:

Then the second section of peloton:

And the third section of peloton:

Followed by a little bunch of stragglers (you can hear the people up the road cheering them on):

Then came a couple of groups of cyclists who I don’t think had race numbers on, and they weren’t followed by hoards of cars, so I think they were keen amateurs:

Then came some more amateurs, and a couple of lorries collecting up any rubbish that had been thrown by the cyclists:

My camera isn’t actually a video camera so the videos aren’t terribly good, you can’t zoom while you are in video mode, but I enjoyed making them 🙂 A fun day out, and I managed to knit about 3 rows 🙂