{"id":867,"date":"2007-07-11T13:12:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-11T13:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/wordpress179\/?p=867"},"modified":"2007-07-11T13:12:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-11T13:12:00","slug":"the-tour-hits-london-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/the-tour-hits-london-town\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tour hits London town!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mal’s Spyshot: Me hard at work marshalling the prologue.. <\/p>\n

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The day started off boring as we arrived at 8am and then did nothing for a couple of hours. We were also off the race route which sucked but then all the team buses rocked up in our area and the riders started warming up. <\/p>\n

It quickly turned to carnage. We were just volunteers and were not supposed to be crowd control or blocking traffic, etc. but a bunch of us ended up standing in the middle of the road: checking a multitude of passes and wrist bands to allow people into the “pits” (none of which we knew the meaning of – anyone with any pass got in), stopping dopey pedestrians from being run over by team cars and riders.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile a bunch of coppers just stood around and watched us! One of them even had the nerve to say “do you know you just let a known felon through?”<\/p>\n

Well actually if they are a known felon shouldn’t YOU fecking do something about them?!?! Secondly, they came from the OTHER end of this area, ie. from behind me, aka not my problem coppah!<\/p>\n

Like I said, it was carnage. Did this for hours and then had to eat before I decked the next member of public trying to sneak in. I bailed and spent the last hour of the race watching the race! I didn’t feel guilty because I’d already heard that most of the marshalls were just standing on the route taking photos! I didn’t have a camera because they said we weren’t to take photos but I got Mal’s and snapped some during the last hour. See below. It was all good fun and wearing the jersey got us pretty much anywhere. We had a look into all the team areas, we got a clear space on the race route. Nice!<\/p>\n

\"Hippy:<\/p>\n

Mal & Hippy’s pics<\/a><\/p>\n

mmuk’s photos – london prologue<\/a><\/p>\n

weightweenies.starbike.com – CSC<\/a><\/p>\n

addiscombe.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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