Bah! I was keeping an eye out but last read the forum on Thursday am so didn't see the bad news. Kudos to Kim for her second place in the Women's Unfaired class, narrowly beaten by some beastly FOREIGN and her sneaky tactics viz. shamelessly let Kim do most of the work in the 1-hour race before outsprinting her and latching onto a group of faster chaps in the 3-hour
And impressively staying ~2 minutes out of phase with me for the entire duration. Given that I spent the first half of the 3 hour race taking turns in slightly slower groups in order to pace myself, with hindsight I could probably have given it a modicum more beans for Old Blighty and made the failure a bit more heroic, at least.
In conclusion, I appear to be best at races that don't require oxygen. I think I may have worked that out on a school sports day back in the mid-1980s, but it's good to have it confirmed.
The number system for the world championships appears to be the order people signed up in, starting at 500. The usual BHPC number system seems semi-arbitrary, with the allocation process being manipulated for comedy value where necessary.