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Anyone doing it?

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Posted : 03/04/2010 7:08 am
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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.


 
Posted : 03/04/2010 7:16 am
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Yes. I'm in the car park....


 
Posted : 03/04/2010 7:53 am
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Ducked out after 30 miles. When your vision goes monochrome it is time to find a chippy.


 
Posted : 03/04/2010 3:52 pm
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😆


 
Posted : 03/04/2010 3:53 pm
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LOL, no offence like.


 
Posted : 03/04/2010 3:54 pm
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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.


 
Posted : 03/04/2010 3:58 pm
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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.


 
Posted : 03/04/2010 4:04 pm
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Crikey, were you one of the sadists who set the pace?


 
Posted : 03/04/2010 4:13 pm
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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...


 
Posted : 03/04/2010 4:41 pm
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There was one of them with us?

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


 
Posted : 03/04/2010 5:12 pm
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the suffering!
the cobbles!
the climbs!
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Posted : 03/04/2010 7:53 pm
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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.


 
Posted : 03/04/2010 7:57 pm
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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


 
Posted : 03/04/2010 8:00 pm
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gravé? What's that - a cobbled cemetary?


 
Posted : 03/04/2010 8:05 pm
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I was suffering walking up those cobbles!


 
Posted : 03/04/2010 8:30 pm
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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.


 
Posted : 03/04/2010 9:43 pm