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Lakes full of Porage.

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Porage has always been a mixed experience for me. First of all it was this mythical, uber-elite invitational event, shrouded in secrecy and wreathed in misinformation and rumour. Then in 2006 I got invited and I became part of its own little world of pain and oddness. My Porage record is not a good one: Dundee 2006 : Rode with Lesley, awesome day out, big crash, timed out at pub, driven to finish. Placing: Joint last. Pennines 2008: Rode solo, physical hell across Bowes Moor, driven between feed stations 1 and 2, awesome descent of High Cup Nick to finish. Placing: Last. Strathaven 2010: Rode with Ross, awesome day out, snapped rear mech, driven to finish. Placing: Last. Usually, being recurrently last at an event would be a bad thing, but the calibre of riders invited to Porage pretty much means I will always be at or near the bottom of the results, and I've no problem with that - hell, I'm chuffed just to still be getting an invite - but you'll note in that li