[Closed] Ride London rollcall

Laura Trott was 4:23. She may not have been racing....

Must have stopped at some point then as the wiggle peloton passed me at speed about halfway round. Didn't have the legs to hang on....

It was definitely not a race but if there is one thing that event told me it was that I should get out and race.

My time just under four hours but I was waiting for my mate quite a lot as he was having a bad day. I kept putting in little efforts on the small rises and before I knew it he was off the back.

There was a really good train that came past me on the A24 from Dorking and I would dearly have loved to keep on them but didn't want to leave my mate.

Not sure how quick I would have been had I not waited. Maybe 3hr 45mins?

I really should go and do a 25TT

mudshark, 5 seconds quicker than me! 2718 - 2720 all got your time.

jambo, 3056 - 3178 got 4:21:something.

While we're on ifs and buts, what do you reckon spds would have got me over flats and running trainers? (apart from hurty knees!)

9 hours. that is true dedication.

Think that was the person or people from my GF's club. They stopped to given the poor chap CPR who later died. Stayed with him for a while and then rode back with the broom wagon chasing them. Kudos.

Loads of people were coming through as the broom wagon was loading up at Newlands, desperate to continue. One bloke even turned down the broom wagon and rode back on his own, fully accepting he was effectively out.

where was Newlands? Was it the feed station at the top of a hill about halfway round?

I didn't really have much of a clue where I was in the middle part of the ride

where was Newlands? Was it the feed station at the top of a hill about halfway round?

Yes that was it.

SO much of the ride is a blur to me. It all passed by in a druken haze of adrenaline fuelled excitment. I can't even remember crossing the Thames on the way out or passing by Hampton Court!

One bloke even turned down the broom wagon and rode back on his own, fully accepting he was effectively out.

People like that were the real heroes on the day. Those people that you saw on £100 Halfords specials in trainers and tracky bottoms; that's a real achievement to have ridden that course like that.

The most amazing think I saw though, in the photographs not on the road, is the guy doing it all on a BMX. Yes really! I will try to dig the photo out.

Here you go.

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Stone me if he didn't do it in 5hrs 45mins as well!

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impressive. did anyone else see the chap in gold lamee. I thought it was jimmy saville...

5:45 is a 15mph average? That seems mental on a BMX!

5:45 is a 15mph average? That seems mental on a BMX!

So mental you could quite understand if actually he'd done it by hitching lifts but we know he didn't!

In the other pictures he does at least have his seat up but still, can't quite fathom how strong you'd have to be to be able to do that.

I think this event needs more people like that.
In the marathon you see loads of people in fancy dress, or pushing a tennis ball round the course with their nose...
It would be nice if it evolved into something like that rather than a 20,000 person TTT.
I might consider doing something daft like that for charity next year.

That's the stated aim of the organisers. They want it to be one of the largest mass participation fund raising events in the UK.

but whats a 4.21 count for roughly.

I think this event needs more people like that.

Fat Bike!

Silliest I saw were a couple of girls on a tandem (not that silly in the event - no-spray drafting!) and a guy spinning out the top gear on a Boris Bike.

So not that silly. Wouldn't have fancy borising it, though! No ta.

16th percentile. You were faster than 84% of riders.

i think no punctures and no stops played a large part in that.

great gallery here from sportivephoto at newlands. looks like they caught the worst/best of the weather:

First Boris Bike was back after about five hours. Chapeau. But it was a pretty flat course.

Indeed it was flat. Considering it was still 140km there was only 550m of vertical gain involved.

I was suprised how fast I went, although I couldn't have kept that pace up for much longer. Round devon I usually average 15mph ish, sometimes as low as 12 if there is a lot of climbing. I ignored my plan of staying at a comfortable HR and pushed on. Last ten miles was at an average of 172bpm..

back to the hills tonight..

Saw a bloke on an mtb with big knobbly tyres and suspension fork, also passed a guy going up to Newlands Corner on a Boris bike. A few tandems including one with a blind guy on the back.

Oh and a girl in a tutu for those that like to see non lycra shorted people at these things.

5:15 (4:50 actual ride time as I spent a lot of time faffing with jackets and food).

My start was 0627 which I think was too early for my pace, I'd go a bit later if I did it again. Loads of people passed me on the flat but I took some names on the Newlands climb, I guess that's what comes of being a Surrey Hills MTBer - we don't do flat.

Any suggestions for painful sit bones after a few hours riding? (I don't mean just a tad sore, they proper hurt to sit on).

Any suggestions for painful sit bones after a few hours riding?

Thx for the ideas, it's neither of the latter two, in fact seat pain limits ride time rather than vice versa. I'll look at saddle width and the medical side.

http://speakthinkblog.speakmedia.co.uk/2014/08/12/ride-london-2014-rankings-and-average-times-did-you-beat-chris-boardman/

Thanks, I seem to be distinctly average! Am a tad long in the tooth though, breakdown by age group would be interesting.

Only 16,000 finishers are listed, I thought I heard it was over the 20,000 mark (of 24,000 entrants).

(& four minutes short of the top 50%, wish I hadn't stopped to take my jacket off at Wimbledon!)

calm down Matt, it's not a race.

two lists, men and women. nearly 4000 women riders as well.

2850th in male, 172nd woman...

yeah I twigged. doh.

@anyone doing the download - the file is called something.pdf.xls - it's a PDF not an XLS, chop the .xls off the filename to open in a PDF reader

First Boris Bike was back after about five hours. Chapeau. But it was a pretty flat course.

Kirs Cook who passed away's fund raising total is £36k now.

Anybody going on next year's?

Hoping to!

Does anyone know when the ballot opens for next years?
I didn't get in for this year, but determined to do it next year, one way or another.

Finished in 3.58 so just outside the top 1000.
Not bad for a mid 30s commuter that lines his food.

Next years ballot opens on Monday I believe.

Ballot opens on Monday

Anybody going on next year's?

I had to withdraw this year so have a guaranteed place next year.
whoop!

Ballot opens on Monday