Email the organisers …tell them you never got sent one!!…it’s worth a try

Anyone who has ridden over 100 km recently will be fine. It’s a fast course with plenty of drafting. Find a group moving at a pace you can keep but not hold a conversation (Endurance pace). Take the food offered on the drag up Norbury Hill, and you’ll be OK on the final climb up onto Wimbledon Common. Then it’s a fast downhill and a tow along the embankment. I love the last 10 miles. Under Big Ben as it strikes 11 and a sprint down the Mall.

Hope you all enjoy it.

PS I released 5 twin rooms at Premier Inn Docklands I was holding, so if anyone needs to book last minute accommodation then call 020 7540 2240

I’ll come along and wave atcha’, I’m staying in Town this w/e riding with Buddies out North but will pop on over to see lots of exhausted, but happy, faces..

Enjoy it, riding bikes is fun after all.

8)

Just in case anyone else is stupid enough to loose their form – call the helpdesk on 02079020212 with your rider number and they will email one through.

Looks like the weather is set to be good, light winds (from SE rather than the normal SW for this part of the world), no rain and temps up to 24ish degrees by late afternoon.

Will see if I can ‘go to check on something in another site’ later to pick up my number, etc.

Apart from picking up an extra spare tube and some Park Patches, a lube of the drive-chain and fine tune of the gear cables, I think I’m ready.

Found this interesting article from last year as well
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/active/recreational-cycling/11018027/7-things-no-one-tells-you-about-RideLondon-100.html

I see that there is a rider tracker available in an iPhone app for the event. Anyone know if this feature will be available on the website as well?

Don’t really know why, but a bit nervous about it now!

That’s me registered. Feel a bit better now as there’s all shapes and sizes there. Everything from racing snake to pending coronary

Just established I’ll be doing 17 miles of riding today – I like the way their guide says “don’t do any riding for the last few days”, then they say “please ride to Excel to register on Thursday – Saturday”! 😆

No idea but last year you could simply buy them at registration from the Wiggle stand.

having had to fill in the deferment form following a mtb crash and injury a few weeks ago I shall sadly not be riding. Weather looks perfect not like the deluge last year.

I shall be out on my normal MTB route instead which crosses the Ride100 route in a few places near boxhill so will be stopping to shout encouragement/run alongside the riders in my mankini/throw cups of wee in their faces*

*not true

Hopefully I’ll be picking my stuff from Excel tomorrow night, a long as the M2 isn’t as bad as it was tonight London bound. Does anyone know of cheaper parking in the vicinity? If I get there at about 6.30 I don’t fancy paying £15 to park for only a couple of hrs.

Thanks

Neil

Anyone worrying about the distance – if you are a regularish cyclist and eat enough, you’ll be fine. I did it in last year’s hurricane/monsoon and was amazed how much easier I found it than I was expecting (Though it was 86 miles without Box or Leith hills!), bearing in mind I’d only done a few 20 milers in preparation during the prior 6 months. You almost can’t compare it to a normal ride, as being in a group and not having to stop at all due to the closed roads means you cover distance so much faster than usual. It seemed like we got from Stratford to Richmond Pk in about 20 minutes!

Doing it again on Sunday as I feel I have unfinished business from last year….

Registered yesterday.
How many different places do they want you to stick your number!
Only one missing is the one to shove up your ar*e.

Or match bikes to bodies in the event of a hideously fatal pile up at the bottom of box hill.

My weather forecast has the temp at 11C at that time.

I hav to be at the start 05:15 – 05:45. Will aim for 05:30 ish, but can’t decide if I’ll need lights for the 30 min ride I’ll have to the start

So is it true that they can’t prevent you from starting at a different start time to what’s on your form?

PdF
When I’ve been on my rides, I’m up at 5 and out by 5.30 and for the last month or so haven’t needed lights for vision.
At 5 when the alarm goes off its pretty light.
With the bags, I think the lorries are numbered, and possibly you drop the bag off before joining the wave. Got this info third hand, so may not be 100% accurate.
With that start time you must be one of the super quick riders?

Given that it looks like good weather, I’m trying to decide where to put my helmet sticker (!!) that won’t interfere with the vents. Not sure if putting it on the visor will be visible.

I didn’t bother with the helmet sticker last year.

The marshals were pretty slack at the start last year, plenty of other colours and letters in my stream. You all filter into the same place anyway.

06:00 start and a Blue A number#. I’ll wave as I go by Nick.

You can start in any wave AFTER your own has left. We moved a few up early last year to ride as teams.

All ready, and the errrrrr aero accouterments have been packed. Propel not Defy.

#I was fitter when I applied!

EDIT:

Pied, there will be plenty of club riders leaving at 06:30 (that’s a five hour planned finish), find a train that is moving up as you pass through central London

How many club riders average 20mph over a 100 miles?

The training group of my club would but they represent a small percentage of the total club members.