I bumped into – almost literally – the Peak Epic yesterday going the wrong way up and down some of my favourite local back lanes. They were mostly fine to be honest, though quite a lot of them seemed focussed and a little miserable or maybe just focussed on being miserable. It was hot and I guess they were tired.
I found myself wondering if there should be a central sportive register where you could check whether your local area was about to be over-run by a mass phalanx of riders.
I don’t have anything against sportives, I’ve done the Whitton and a few others, but it’d be nice to be able to avoid them more easily. Some of the riding scares me.