LEL 2017

[iLB]

P.S platinum stars for each of the volunteers. All amazing, all the time.

So many thanks.

 

[iLB]

You now make me ashamed for coming this close to telling someone to Foxtrot Oscar.

I'm not saying all riders get stars...

 

[jiberjaber]

What a great ride, paying for it now a bit... but off for a recovery beer or 4... apologies in retrospect if I was a bit emotional when I was greated by you at controls, it was such a boost to bump in to friendly faces and the TLC was amazing! Truly Epic!

 

[ianrauk]

What a great ride, paying for it now a bit... but off for a recovery beer or 4... apologies in retrospect if I was a bit emotional when I was greated by you at controls, it was such a boost to bump in to friendly faces and the TLC was amazing! Truly Epic!

Well done bud. More then 4 beers are deserved.

 

[User10119]

Yeah but this one was not being at all unreasonable really . He only wanted to have his Brevet Card back from somewhere in the pile, and know where someone had last checked in. I was just a bit pressured with arrivals.

Hmm. I found it really irritating when people tried to ask me Other Stuff while I was dealing with stamping cards and had a queue waiting to get their cards stamped - surely a rider should appreciate more than anyone that unless it is an actual emergency nowt takes priority over that. Mind, I think a lot of the riders didn't appreciate that in many cases the volunteers are actually getting by on even less sleep than them and so have to actually concentrate to get stuff right...

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Despite me never actually working out what the time limit was, my 2 clubmates obviously had things well in control as they made it in time:

Timestamp Event Control Distance (km) Time in Hand
2017-08-04 09:13:55 Arrival London 1441 0 hours 21 mins
2017-08-04 06:08:11 Departure Great Easton 1393 -0 hours 27 mins
2017-08-04 05:24:28 Arrival Great Easton 1393 0 hours 16 mins
2017-08-04 00:25:57 Departure St Ives 1322 -0 hours 31 mins
2017-08-03 23:25:25 Arrival St Ives 1322 0 hours 29 mins
2017-08-03 19:37:47 Departure Spalding 1261 -0 hours 40 mins
2017-08-03 18:46:13 Arrival Spalding 1261 0 hours 11 mins
2017-08-03 12:58:33 Departure Louth 1177 -0 hours 50 mins

 

[User10119]

I have just remembered the thing he did that was a tiny bit unreasonable. Because the Brevet Cards were printed before the route amendment, the timings were 25 minutes out. He wanted me to alter the cut-off time on his card in writing.

When the tracking system calculation of time in hand went wrong I did manually work it out for a few riders - difference between their brevet card time and current time and a reminder that there was an extra 25 mins for the diversion, together with the offer to be an audax man in black and wipe that knowledge from their mind so that they could keep it in the bank for the fens...

 

[DCLane]

@User10119 - I hadn't a clue about the cut-off, and clearly got it wrong, but made it anyway.

I'd agree with the platinum stars comment. The help and encouragement kept me going and I'm not sure how they did. Thank you to all on CC who helped - I owe you a beer / coffee / cake.

 

[arallsopp]

This kind of ride is really something that you don't do on your own. I don't just mean that I recognise how immensely grateful I need to be for @iLB taking the front. I mean the support of so many friends, organisers and volunteers, literally ushering us from place to place. I'm still unable to put the words together, so will have to leave an interim THANK YOU to everyone.

You are all just amazing. I'm really totally overwhelmed by it all.

 

[Alien8]

Rolled-out with the last group at 4pm on Sunday.
Rolled back-in, not quite with the last group, 113:25 later with about 3:45 to spare.
Moving time: 67:10 (out: 28:36, back: 38:44).

Scotland Welcomes You

• Alien8
• 5 Aug 2017

 

[R_nger]

Rolled-out with the last group at 4pm on Sunday.
Rolled back-in, not quite with the last group, 113:25 later with about 3:45 to spare.
Moving time: 67:10 (out: 28:36, back: 38:44).

Scotland Welcomes You

• Alien8
• 5 Aug 2017

I think I might know who took that photo. Great effort finishing well inside the limit.

 

[jiberjaber]

Rolled-out with the last group at 4pm on Sunday.
Rolled back-in, not quite with the last group, 113:25 later with about 3:45 to spare.
Moving time: 67:10 (out: 28:36, back: 38:44).

Scotland Welcomes You

• Alien8
• 5 Aug 2017

It's funny how you can be in the same starting group (MM5) and not make any connection about cycle chat! LOL I'm sure we must have spoken on the route at some point though?

 

[videoman]

I don't know how all you guys did it and managed to ride to the end and you have my uttermost respect riding through such terrible weather conditions. I was a volunteer and drove one of the support vans up and down the country and at times the wind and rain were horrendous.

Just finished watched the DVD of the 2013 event and looking forward to Damon's 2017 DVD.

 

[Trickedem]

Finished at 2am - 9 hours 56 mins time in hand

well done. great ride

 

[iZaP]

well done. great ride

Cheers all!

I was looking forward to having a picture of my bike in front of "welcome to Scotland" but I must have taken a different route and got this instead!