Back I would have thought

About half of our club riders (we have 60 riders tomorrow) will be aiming for sub five hours. Look for the blue TCC jerseys. Our “steady” team will be aiming for sub six and a half.

27mph for the first hour is impressive crazy-legs. If I ever I do the Pru 100 I’ll have to make sure that I temporarily replace my compact chainset …… my 50/12 top gear ratio has me spinning like the clappers at 25mph, at least it feels like it, I wouldn’t want to that for an hour 🙂

In bed, alarm set for 5am. I know I should be asleep but absolutely wired!
Good luck to y’all for tomorrow – if you see a fat lad in a blue Adidas top, give me a wave!

All set up at Newlands, bit of mist, light wind, nice temperature. Gonna be a fast day again I reckon!

Good luck lads I’m on Giggs hill green in Thames ditton – washing car and bike fetteling, feeling glum and jealous

Mostly a great day with some really nice weather however spoiled a bit with a crash – i normally defend sportive riders standard of riding (at least in terms of it not being as bad as their reputation – However no more! I, and 6 others in the first group got taken out by a bellend taking a selfie. Bike was rideable at least but my arse was hanging out my shorts – fortunately not as bad as Peraud in the tour but bad enough! The selfie taker was i think a member of triathlon club (a black and red jersey cant remember the name) unfortunately couldnt make it back to the front group to call him a c£&@ although the incentive of doing that made me keep pushing on and ended up with a shade under 4.15 which id have been happy with before

🙁 re rider down

My official time was 5:19, which I’m well chuffed with as I ain’t no racing snake!

What’s your age, height and weight mboy?

Didn’t realise there was an event on this weekend and am down here with the family visiting friends. Managed to get caught up in traffic jams and road closures for 3 hours on our way out of the city.

Bloody cyclists 😉

there were some quite efficient pelotons out there today. Sadly I couldn’t seem to jump on annoys them, so pretty much solo’d round for 90% of it. Still a bloody good day though!

F me that was quick. Normally ride 14- 15 mph average time, with a couple of rides just over 16mph. Managed the 100 miles in 5:43 so about 17.5 mph! Did the first 40 miles in just under 2 hrs too. Everyone who said it would be faster than normal were right. Seemed to be loads of accidents tho. Feel sorry for the guy on the ground just 10 miles from the finish

ok, so I was hoping to get under 5h30, and I did… snuck home in 4h19m! I was more than a bit surprised, and the last 20 was definitely tough going, but very happy now! 😎

and, yep, I like the climbs too – blasted a load of people on Leith and Box and nobody overtook me on either 🙂

4:19, shouldn’t you have been in the race that started after !?! I don’t mind hills. I’ll happily grind up and will never get off. It just can’t seem to get any speed up ’em. Didn’t like the km signs they put out, that messed with my head, went past the 10 miles to go then there was a 15 marker, but saw it was km!!

Just got over five and a half hours but stupidly stopped at newlands and got caught behind crash at leith hill. Guy looked in a bad way so hopefully he’s fine, there was a crash just after the finish line as well. Surprised there weren’t more with the mix of fast riders and inexperienced riders, healing vibes to all.

and yep agreed, 4:06 is smashing – excellent work! 😯

Some very red faces in Canary Wharf this afternoon. Having ridden out with my mates this morning, we crashed out in Canada Sq watching the big screen and watching some of the finishers riding through CW looking slightly worse for wear.
Hot today wasn’t it.

Wish you all a very settled nights sleep and don’t forget …

Wear that free top you’ve got in the morning to work won’t you 😉 😆

Heart attack I believe and unfortunately didn’t make it by the sound of the police when I went past. It was certainly and long delay, so the services tried their best. Massive downer on what was a good day.

Well I started off great…then got cramp in both legs before the Surrey hills section…so I was very slow doing the 2 pedal glide…….big thanks to the single track cheering squad at the top of leigth hill…cheered me right up

Finished in 5:20….so I’m pretty happy……could have got in the 4hr zone …without the cramp

Great day tho…well done to all

Just found out a customer of mine did it in 4:03!!! 😯

He was in the first wave off, on a blue Planet X (will get him off it and on something decent soon!) with Reynolds wheels if anybody was riding with him… His time up Leith Hill would have troubled many of the pro’s!!!