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You can just about see me in hi viz marshalling the junction on the first pic. I was also the one with the cowbell just before the turn back to the finish (about where the pic was taken from). Ran to Horton and back to see the leaders come through. Glad the weather cleared up! Not tempted but I think my oh is.
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Here are some more pics from today, the light and weather was all over the place, so lenses misted up, covered in water etc.
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Well I had a nightmare.
All fine to the summit of Whernside, well on course for a sub 4hr.
A joint puncture and jammed/twisted chain on the descent cost me a huge amount of time to split, untangle & rejoin the chain, fix the puncture and when I got going again I was behind some triathlete who had all the descending skills and grace of a 3-legged donkey.
Then I had a front wheel puncture on the lower slopes of Whernside so ran to Ribblehead, got it all fixed with the aid of a friendly random person with a track pump.
Chain went again on the road section, the short steep climb so again I fixed that, another 5 minute delay.
Got to PyG, half wondering whether to just bin it off there but various friends hanging around there said go for it.
Got up PyG lane, easily 45 minutes down on schedule now, turned off on the footpath and the chain went again. **** it. Out of tubes, chain incapable of holding under any power so I fixed it, turned round and rolled down the hill and home without making the summit.
Gutted. But I guess that's the luck of the draw and today wasn't my day.
Happy Birthday!!!! 🙂 So it sort of was 'your day', but maybe not in the sense you meant...
Richpips had a good ride, he did it on a fixed gear CX and took the fixie record off Samuri, also of this parish. I think Samuri had a 4.52, Richpips did 4.45.
This was his second attempt, he'd tried it fixed about 3 years ago and had a similar nightmare of mechanical problems and punctures. Samuri's record had stood for 10 years, presumably because very very few people are insane enough to think about making an already ludicrously tough event harder than it has to be!
Did anyone notice a creep in tyre sizes? I am sure I saw some quite a bit over 32's !
The rule is 35mm.
That'll be all the landcruisers people were riding on
Did anyone notice a creep in tyre sizes? I am sure I saw some quite a bit over 32's !
Kind of - on my bike!
Fitted the new version of Land Cruisers. Still 35c (says so on the sidewalls and everything) but looked twice the volume of the old style ones to me!
Yeh, I noticed some decidedly 'plus' sized tyres. TBH my 35mm Cross Boss's would have probably measured a little over. What bike were you on Twinklydave?
Also, did they relax the rules for riding over the white line during the neutralised start? Couldn't hear the briefing but it seemed way worse than last year.
Scrapped in to the top 25. Half way up the final climb i was telling myself never again but i'm already thinking about where time can be saved!
Also, did they relax the rules for riding over the white line during the neutralised start? Couldn't hear the briefing but it seemed way worse than last year.
I couldn't hear the briefing either, any sort of "briefing" via a megaphone on the start line was doomed to failure with that wind. TBH, I thought it was the safest start in years in spite of the weather. There was at least one Police moto, 3 NEG and 2 Lead Cars (normally there's only been one) and the Police locked it all down so what little oncoming traffic there was had been stopped and held.
I was over on the right on numerous occasions and there were people much further right than me.
The neutralised section actually seemed to be more neutral this time round - fast enough to string it out, not so fast that it caused sprint-brake-sprint style riding. Well controlled I thought.
The marshals on all the junctions were superb. Excellent job.
Agreed, it definitely felt safer. Marshals brilliant as ever.
I'm trying to work out if the weather was a hindrance compared to the last ywo years. Despite constantly trying to blow the bike off my shoulder on numerous occasions during the hike-a-bike it only felt like we were riding in to a headwind on the dash to the finish. Thankfully it was a tail wind for the final climb.
top 25??!! Blimey. I've just missed crossing paths at the bottom of PyG lane (4:27, v50 fwiw. Just have to hold that sort of time for podium 6 years from now...)
Second go for me. Brilliant. Don't think I actually did anything very wrong, apart from not ride fast enough. Downhills were a bit of a pootle (last year felt I passed loads of folk, this year opposite). Riding Ribblehead to Horton pretty much on my own was a poor idea. Hooked onto what I thought was a fast guy but he faded and disappeared, as did a couple of other back wheels. Thought I'd better keep going, heart rate through the roof, then blew up predictably on penyghent. With great age comes zero wisdom. But then with wisdom would come not doing the 3 peaks.
Just out of interest were many riders running 1 x systems?
Mrs Kilo finished it a shade under six hours. Before doing it she said it was finish it and job done, don't have to do it again, after finishing it wa s "I can do this to save time next year..." 🙂
Organisation seemed really good again, all the Marshall seemed to be doing steeling work.
There seemed to be quite a few trashed rear mechs out on the course.
I would've been 1x if my Snapierre hadn't lived up to it's name! As it was I ended up riding with 46/36 up front and and a hastily added 11-32 out back. Really missed the 42 and 11/40 of my 1x. Also the chain slap was pretty disconcerting!
Mrs Kilo finished it
there's a strategy I'd not thought of - send my wife next year
I was on a 1 x 11. Sram CX1 set up with 38 chainring and a 40-12, it was fine and caused me no bother.
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Sub 5 hour finish here, which was my modest target. I'm curious about route choice off the top of Ingleborough though - everyone rides away from the route marker, which means a scramble down the hillside to the path. It's more direct but the path looks rideable, maybe quicker, does anybody go this way?