The Eagle had two rider in the Senior road race, Phil Hersey and Ben Preston. Both had ridden the day before and had to overcome sore legs.
Ben tells us that " The E123 RR started extremely fast as the elites showed everyone their legs. I looked at the average speed after 5 minutes, it was 28.6 mph! Luckily the race slowed down to tortoise like 25 mph avg for the 82 miler. By the end of it my legs were very tired, and I didn't have the energy to contest what was left of the points in the sprint. I rolled in at 41st place".
Phil suffered a puncture with two laps to go and decided to save himself for the following day's time trials.
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