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Having been relieved of my weekend pass to ride the Flatlands a fortnight earlier by my family, it was with some trepidation that I set out from home in the early dawn to ride my first solo 600 on a route renowned … read more »
I had been down to ride the Flatlands this year, but family duties on Sunday got in the way. Since Tomsk had successfully marketed the ride as a last-chance-before-PBP pre-qualifier, 140+ riders had entered, although it was expected that a good … read more »
Having completed a very wet and windy Hereward the Wake 300 (Thomas Deakins'), which I ECE'ed to 400, I believe that's RRTY #2 completed (this is my second audax season). Note: this a copy of my submission to yacf, here. This … read more »
It was Roger's fault! We were having an in-depth discussion about the merits of something or other and both of us missed the signal on our GPSes telling us we were off-course. It was about 1.30am by this point … read more »
The Flitchbikes being a 200, and Great Dunmow being 51km in Google from my home in Cambridge, I decided to ECE the ride to 300, as it would take only an extra 45 minutes each end compared to waiting for and catching … read more »
This was my second bite at the Bryan Chapman and my only aims were to climb every hill on the bike (I walked quite a few last year), to get some sleep at the YH, and to beat last year's time of … read more »
There is definitely something perversely comforting about night riding and Tomsk's Green & Yellow Fields 300, with its one-minute-past-midnight start, delivers in spades: quiet roads, calm weather, deserted towns and villages, the moon and the stars, you can't see where you're going … read more »
That was fun! When I say "fun", what I mean is "cold"! I rode to the start – that makes a very nice change, even if leaving a bit late meant I had to use much more effort to get to … read more »
The plan was to ECE this with Fidgetbuzz to do 50km before and after from his house, for a November 200 (RRTY, see?). A couple of minutes lateness in departing Cambridge plus extra long roadworks before Thetford following a slow load … read more »
That was hard work! The plan had been to ride to Stevenage and meet up with Siobhan and pilot her tandem, but that plan fell through, so I rode it on my normal† bike with a view to catching up … read more »