In his latest update for Crash.net, Chaz Davies reviews his one-off ride for the Arie Molenaar Honda team at his home 250cc British Grand Prix - before which he had cycled the 100 miles from mid-Wales to Donington Park...
Since my last update just before Donington I’ve been waiting to hear if I’ll be riding this weekend at Sachsenring. I was hopeful to try and get another go on the Honda but it looks like Vincent has recovered well enough so he’ll be racing this weekend and I‘ll be on the settee (not really, I'm in Germany now but am only here until Saturday afternoon just to speak to Dorna and find out if they have any plans).
As for
Donington, on the Tuesday before I did my Riders for Health Charity Cycle. I left home at 9:00am, went from mine over to Kidderminster, Kidderminster to Birmingham, Birmingham to Lichfield and then up to Donny. I’ve got to say I felt surprisingly good after the 100 miles considering I’ve never done that amount before.
The only problem that I had on the whole trip was that I got properly lost in Birmingham, it all looked so easy on the map! I was stood in the middle of a huge roundabout, talking to my friend, Simon, who was on the computer at his work looking at multi-map on the internet and trying to suss out exactly where I was.
Luckily, after about 45 minutes of total confusion he pulled me out of it and I picked up the road that I wanted to be on, on the other side of Birmingham and I was well away. From my house over to Kidderminster I took it pretty easy because the roads were hilly and I didn’t want to burn myself out in the first 50 miles. When I got the other side of Birmingham I could relax a bit because I knew exactly where I was going and still felt really fresh so I started to push it a bit more for the last 40ish miles.
