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Awesome. Keep at it, and keep the calories going in. Weather today looks perfect - not too hot
Nice work. Keep it up. 💪
Keep piling the food in and back off at the start of every hill and winch up with utterly MINIMUM effort.
Go and have a look at the finish.
78 miles.
Pain
Attrition
Aye, anyone who's ridden it knows that pain. Good pacing though, you'll get there
That’s good progress mate well done. Keep going. Maybe time for the mars bar now?
Keep on keeping on! As my mate says, it's only pain. But he's a bit odd.
You'll make it and the site of Eastbourne from the top of the last hill will be amazing!
Superb! Keep on
Over the 75% distance (I think)... Keep setting yourself little targets, the home straight is almost in sight!
Yeah, but alfriston, itford and Jevington are all in the way.
Still got 2hrs of daylight left so should be ok.
The dip by the a27 near lewes always gets me, and the big grassy climb up to the falmer resevoir is s killer.
The other hills, ad rob says, start really slowly and grind them out
I keep refreshing this thread! Go #Poopscoop !
Hopefully Poopscoop is now scoffing fish and chips on the beach....
my first bikepack trip was the south downs... back in 1988 ish. It all went a bit wrong... cold, hungry, but happy.
An adventure is something you look forward and back on fondly, but whilst you are doing it, it should feel like hell. If it doesn't feel like hell, you are probably on holiday, and not an adventure.
17 hours, no rest stops,just getting water and extra food.
Never again. Ever.
I'm not smiling because I really don't want to.
You sir, are a legend. Well bloody done. Now have a beer and massive bowl of chips.
Awesome. Chapeau!
Chapeau, Grumpy Cat! ✌️😾
Well done sir
Good effort well done mate
Bravo. Now you’ve got to ride back to get your car!
17hrs, well done for finishing. All the folk who think its flat down south and the sdw is just like a road ride by the sea side need to experience the pain and suffering that is brighton to Eastbourne
Had a few goes at it now, it doesn't get easier you just train harder as you know the efforts required
Really hope you have s hotel in Eastbourne now, a nice cold pint of peroni and a mountain of cheesy chips
Good effort. You've improved a lot, must be satisfying.
Really well done!! I did it in 10 hours and that was plenty long enough to be on a bike, but 17 hours is extraordinary! Top effort indeed! Enjoy the fish and chips and beer!
Awesome effort. 3days to 1 day in a year is an amazing achievement. Nice one 😀.
Awesome! I only discovered this thread a few days ago and enjoyed reading the whole journey/journeys. Superb effort mate! Inspiring!
I've done it in a day twice. After the 1st time I said never again........
Wait until tomorrow when the sense of achievement really hits. Bloody well done!
Well done that man and I echo nixie's post ^^^
Brilliant, well done! Beer, fish and chips and another beer. When you wake up the sense of achievement will be worth the pain, (from a man that has only ever done the Brighton to Eastbourne leg).
Looking forward to the photos are writeup when you've recovered.
You have a 13.5 hour single in there..... go and find it.
Incredible effort! The photo at the end says everything. Respec'
Brilliant news, well done Pooper!
Thanks for sharing it all here too, great inspiration. My "training" continues…
edit: I love how happy you look about it at the end 🙂
Your STW Legend status is assured, I feel.
Inspiring! Brilliant effort!
Well done mate, that’s a tough route.
Fabulous work, have followed the previous years efforts. Very brave man to get it done. Impressed with the improvements! Sleep well.
Bravo!
Thanks for this thread Poopscoop.
It inspired me to go for it in 1 day just yesterday. I had Friday off work, and on Thursday lunchtime committed myself by going and buying a rucksack full of food for it.
I started at 6:30am and eventually made it to Eastbourne at 11:15pm. It was a long very hot day, then turned into gale force sidewinds and 2-metre visibility mist after 9pm.
Vision was so bad on the tops I was steering using the navigation track on my Wahoo like I was piloting a ship in the sea.
Had a mechanical calamity 65 miles in when my tubeless tyre got slashed by some flint. Plugged it, inflated, then on unscrewing the co2 cartridge it also unscrewed the valve core and fired it into some undergrowth never to be seen again... 30 mins spent trying in vain to find it followed by switching in my only tube and praying for no more punctures.
This was on a Commencal Meta TR29 so not ideally suited but I was glad of the plush suspension during the second half when I was suffering.
I'm broken today, can barely move. Good sense of accomplishment though!
SDW in yesterday's heatwave! 😮
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Thanks for this thread Poopscoop.It inspired me to go for it in 1 day just yesterday. I had Friday off work, and on Thursday lunchtime committed myself by going and buying a rucksack full of food for it.
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You sir are a bloody hero.
In that heat and then with the winds and visibility issues (let alone the mechanical!) it must have been torturous.
Amazing achievement my friend.
Im over the pain/tiredness now and i am starting to only remember the positives!😁
And possibly come up with more plans...😳
Cheers. With hindsight, I would have picked a slightly cooler day.. at least it was quiet though!
I had the idea it would feel like the foreign holiday I'm missing this year, and it did for the first couple hours. You forget how exposed it is though, not much tree cover. Didn't sunburn though, I doused myself in P20 SPF50 and carried 4 litres of water. Still almost ran out once.
Went and picked up my van last night, still walking like an old man.
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2021
Well today seems a good day to start thinking of doing something stupid.
I remember nearing the end of the SDW last year and thinking "how about doing the double one day"... Instantly I dismissed the idea as completely dumb and over ambitious.
Well, I'm totally onboard** with that idea now. I've lost most of the fitness I had running upto last years SDW because... I'm an idiot that likes beer and pizza.
I'll be trying for the double in the Summer, it will take well over 24 hours so I don't think it classes as an "official" double on that site "that I can't remember at the moment". Anyway, that site says to go a different route near the start from memory but I want to go the same way I normally go. Hell, even then I get lost or crash.
Got the lights already, so I can ride through the night no probs. (Yeah, right...)
Posting this here as, well, I have got to give it a shot or you lot will never let me forget it.😁
** I'm totally not onboard with this and I know the idea is drink motivated at the moment. More drink needed now after posting this!
Good work poopscoop, I look forward to following your latest adventure. No turning back now you've posted it 😉
Doing the SDW at night is epic. Properly epic. You'll love that aspect of it for sure.
Tough day out!
** I’m totally not onboard with this and I know the idea is drink motivated at the moment. More drink needed now after posting this!
Give me a shout if you’re doing anything specific on Zwift. We’re aiming for not too dissimilar things although mine will take around 40hrs elapsed time and is a tad further north.
Firstly, what a lovely thread, enjoyed reading this and big congratulations to PoopScoop, for his journies in all senses, that's a heck of a transition!!!
Dare I ask what next? The SDW on a SingleSpeed? Ah, just saw the last Posts, as it were, GO GET EM POOPERS!!
Excellent! I look forward to following this thread. Thanks Poopster.