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Managed 6:50, with zero training, and not ridden a bike in 6 weeks prior (broke my arm at Fort Bill Endurance race). Muscle fatigue in my bad arm was agony...
Now I know what to expect (first century), I've got a baseline to improve from.
I put down 5:30 which I thought was unreasonbably quick given lack of training (I hadn't touched the road ike for a year before march), then did it in 4:50, and found that fairly easy
Going for sub 4:30 this time as I rode the last half pretty much alone after losing my team.
Just registered.
I remember reading something about a guaranteed place if you missed out this year. Seemed a bit unlikely, and there was no "registered this year but no luck?" field in the reg. process.
Any truth in it?
I think the guaranteed places were if you won the first ballot but had to cancel your ride for some reason.
And currently, there is no team registration (that's coming in a few weeks). So I'm hoping that they make the event larger; 20,000 plus team entrants. And yes it was a fast event, but 4:09 is still VERY fast - that beat our Cat 2 team (4:20).
That plot of times is subdivided too finely. Do it by 30 minutes and you get a lovely smooth over-dispersed log-normal(ish) distribution. And if course there is digit bias to come under thresholds (5hrs, 6hrs...)
well, thats my place sorted.
ride for charity chaps, its the way forward.
50,000 applications for places in the first 24hrs!
I think they may need to think about growing the actual size of the event more quickly than they originally expected, or go off and create similar events around the country.
Tired - Did your club actually have a "team" entry? Think some of the guys in our club tried, but failed to organise it for some reason... Assume if they were in a team they all started together?
Yeah 4:09 is quick I guess, but conditions were perfect. Having said that I felt VERY strong on the day.
50,000 entries in the first 24 hours is seriously cool. I know a lot of people were inspired to enter (my boss for example who isn't a cyclists at all) Just hope I get in again!