We took six elite men, six elite women, three junior elite men and four junior elite females supported by no less than eleven staff (not to mention the Executives) and the sum total of the medals was one Bronze to Jodie Swallow. Sure, the weather conditions were poor and the road surface seems to have been primed with grease judging by the number of crashes but the outcome was certainly not the one that we had hoped for.

On the other hand, we took a host of age groupers supported by Ian Pettitt and Jasmine Flatters and they staggered home with four Golds and two Silvers... Sort of puts the whole thing in perspective, doesn't it. Those that paid out of their own pockets to race (and, incidentally, to underwrite the elite event) once again ended up the real heroes of the hour.

Perhaps, one day, all those age group athletes will get just a little bit of the funding and backing that they deserve.