Anyone doing it?

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No, but enjoy.
'Just off to do 'Round the East of Leighton Buzzard' after my tea and Nutella toast
Nice and mucky out there.

Yes. I'm in the car park….

Ducked out after 30 miles. When your vision goes monochrome it is time to find a chippy.

😆

LOL, no offence like.

My first ever road ride with more than 2 people involved!

Some of the others were a bit quick and some of the climbs were brutal (for me anyway).

Good fun in a perverse sort of way. Quite pleased that I managed to hang on for the first 20 miles, after that I just fell off the back. No point in spoiling the fun of "the sweeper" so I went in search of junk food.

I did it, twas a cracking ride, very tough in places, very well signed, will definitely be back again. Silly steep cobbles in places, and a lady in the coffee shop who couldn't ever, ever sleep on her front.
And it didn't rain, thankfully.

Crikey, were you one of the sadists who set the pace?

Me? Oooh no missus, not these days. I tried to spend the day pottering at the back then playing catch up on the flat, I'm not really in any kind of climbing shape.

Had a good chat with a commonwealth games gold medallist tho, in between breaths…

There was one of them with us?

I was the fella in the green On-One kit BTW.

the suffering!
the cobbles!
the climbs!

You didn't seem to be suffering too much Dave! I was cream crackered by the time I got home, I tell thee. For a 'mere' 50 miles it was quite a ride. Well done to crossjunkie and all involved, superb organisation.

Doing the 'faux' Hell of the North next week. 100k with 20 rough stuff sectors of gravé. Should be a laff.

Edit; gravé/gravel i,e bridleways

gravé? What's that – a cobbled cemetary?

I was suffering walking up those cobbles!

I couldn't make it over to this, but it inspired me to make up my own (sort of). Darlington to Dales Bike Centre to Tan Hill to Barnard Castle to Darlington – 72 miles with 6 sections of gravé/pavé.