Well after a 0430 start to ride 12km to the train station for the 0535, I landed in Eastbourne about 0830. Kicked of after some faffing at 0900 and made Winchester after lots of swearing at my own stupidity at 2120.
Clocked 168km with a ride time of 10hrs 22mins, average speed 16.3km/hr no records set but a hell of a ride, those hills are brutal in places. The one out of Queen Elizabeth Country Park had me pushing!
The weather was perfect and the only dirt on the bike was dust and sheep sh*t. I was quite thankful that it hazed over in the afternoon a bit and cooled down.
2 Minor mechanicals, a really annoying rattle when out of the saddle going down hill turned out to be the bolts holding the saddle on worked loose! and the that BB pre-tensioner thing on the new middleburn crankset worked loose after 50km.
All in all an epic day, a few pics to follow.