When I was walking through town at lunchtime, a big group of cyclists had gathered near the war memorial. There was a trumpeter there, too, and someone was bringing a banner up.
The cyclists were wearing blue shirts with "Falklands 40" on them.
As this year is the 40th anniversary of the Falklands War, the bike ride has been organised in memory of the war and the fallen.
Yesterday, they started the cycle run from Cardiff to Brecon, and today they came through Hay.
Tomorrow they will be remembering the Sea King helicopter that crashed, killing twenty members of the SAS, as they cross Herefordshire.
On the fourth day they're visiting the RAF museum at Cosford, which has Harriers and Vulcans among their collection, both of which types of aircraft were used during the Falklands campaign.
The next day they're going to the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire, and on the sixth day they'll be remembering the cyclists who died during the First and Second World Wars, finishing the day at the Falklands Arms pub for a beer to celebrate the Argentinian surrender.
There are two further days of cycling, finishing at the graves of some of the soldiers who died during the Falklands campaign, in Aldershot.
The cyclists are all veterans of the Falklands campaign.
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