After many hours of deliberation and painstaking checking and cross-checking, the results are in! <applause> ... <stop>Crikey, sorting the brevets takes a while — making sure everything's correct and everyone's accounted for, and that the correct times are entered against the correct riders, and that Validation Secretary's going to receive everything in the correct order (for the Pork Pie, at least).
The weather on the day was a stiff, gusty crosswind for most of the way, blowing at about 30mph and gusting to 45mph. The Dashers enjoyed a block tailwind for a 40km stretch, but then turned into a brutal, exposed crosswind for the return to Cambridge. Many riders complained of aching arms and shoulders at the finish, as they'd been wrestling their bikes all day past every gate opening and missing hedge. Quite a few riders abandoned because the constant battering had drained their legs, and a few abandoned because they were unable to stop themselves being blown sideways out of position.
No wind-related injuries to report, apart from one chap who stopped to take a photo and was promptly toppled over while standing over his bike
No harm done; nor to the rider
Okay, the Pork Pie first: 103 starters, 89 finishers, 14 DNF. 5 people rode the Extra Slice, and the first back was fifth or sixth back overall — bravo!And the Spring Dash: 76 starters, 68 finishers, 8 DNF, of which three were hor délais.
Bravo to everyone who started — chapeau to everyone who finished 
I was quite happy that the wind on the helpers' ride was only pushing 20mph with 30mph gusts, but I still felt battered by the end of my ride a fortnight prior.
The thing about a difficult day on the bike is that those are the rides you remember best, and I think a lot of riders will remember this Pork Pie and Spring Dash for some time to come — along with last year's Big Freeze, we're getting an unenviable weather-related reputation
Longer write-up and photos to follow when RL allows. In the meantime, I'll just leave this here:
The Capitals of East Anglia 300 is on 27 April! 
