You might know that I have this thing against sportives as being a pointless costly non event, neither a free of charge training ride or a 'proper' race. Not free to ride roads you can ride anytime, but they're waymarked, well you could make a little route map and stuff it up your shorts. And not a race, yet you get a Gold, Silver or Bronze medal depending on how quick you went.
However, there's one right on my doorstep at the end of the month so I'm going to have a go, for research purposes you understand.
I assume there'snothing to 'get' about a sportive, just do your best and follow the markers, is that all?
And I did notice that the one I'm thinking of doing actually sort of implies that they'd rather you didn't go any slower than 15MPH which is interesting as I guess that stops the London to (slams on the brakes causing a multiple pile up to look at a windmill type) Brighton entering and sort of turning it into a sports/racey affair which sounds actually pretty good.
Synergy end of summer sportive, btw.