As Storm Amy swept through the UK and Ireland last weekend, pulling walls of rain in its wake and leaving over 40,000 homes powerless, there was, on a hillside in Dorset, an afternoon of relative peace.
The ground, still damp from the day before, was a small memory of the storm that had ripped through the country – leaving in its wake “an incredibly strong tailwind” hugging the top of the hill (“I think a lot of riders were happy with that,” laughed the Zig Zag Hill Climb's organiser, Elliott Colyer).
