RideLondon-Essex 100 (2024) Anyone?

[Dogtrousers]

I would have done the Surrey version. Applied for each and every ballot but never got a place.

I've done this a couple of times and it's a lot of fun and a big change from my usual riding in that (a) there is no traffic and (b) there are lots of cyclists. Whether this difference is sufficient to maintain my interest - and continue to draw on my wallet - remains to be seen. I know quite a few of the roads from riding round there but that also may be at an end (RIP Gravesend-Tilbury ferry)

 

[ColinJ]

I think this may be my last participation. I've lost the bloody mindedness to ride longer distances these days. I've not entered any audaxes this year either.

Sounds like me! I stopped riding audaxes a few years ago and have pretty much stuck to metric centuries for my longer rides since then. (I do occasionally still ride imperial centuries, such as the Humber Bridge forum ride from York, but not many of them.)

It is years since I rode my last Sportive. I don't think I will bother doing many more.

 

[lazybloke]

Judging by the email I rcvd over the weekend saying "last chance to register for a place", the days of it being heavily oversubscribed are history.
So if anyone is interested in a sportive... on yer bike!

 

[Dogtrousers]

Got my entry pack. 8:30 to 9:15 start. So I guess I need to rock up at 8-ish. Not too bad.

 

[steverob]

My pack arrived this morning!

I honestly can't remember - did we have to put down a predicted time when entering? If I did, I would have set something quite conservative, say around 6½-7 hours, yet I've somehow managed to get in to one of the earlier waves.

Pink A - arrival point opens at 6am, closes at 7:20; start between 7:00 and 7:45.

 

[Dogtrousers]

My pack arrived this morning!

I honestly can't remember - did we have to put down a predicted time when entering? If I did, I would have set something quite conservative, say around 6½-7 hours, yet I've somehow managed to get in to one of the earlier waves.

Pink A - arrival point opens at 6am, closes at 7:20; start between 7:00 and 7:45.

We did. I think I put the maximum (8 hr?) I think it took me 7:30 last time, including a fairly long holdup by marshals for some reason or other and a reasonably civilised refreshment stop.

So I get a lie in