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matticus

matticus

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blackrat said:
I want to see if I can jog anyone's memory. In a previous LEL there was a video photographer who made a film about the LEL. He usually rode on the back of a motor cycle. He also filmed several additions of the PBP. Inexplicably he committed suicide, but I cannot remember his name. I had a DVD/tape of I think the 2009 event but that has gone missing. Does anyone remember him?
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This is an easy one! It's Damon Peacock, much loved and much missed.
(He put some of his videos on Youtube vimeo. Not sure if they're under his real name or as "ExitStageLeft", the handle he used on YACF. You'll probably find some stuff about his films on that forum.)
Did you ride the '09 edition? I did, but never saw Damon that week, perhaps due to a late Start Time (and a very late finish!)
 
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Oh, yes, now I remember. Nice bloke. ExitStageLeft I do remember. It was a great tragedy his method of passing. Talking to him, you'd never have known it was in his future. You just don't know what demons people carry.
 
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Ajax Bay said:
As said ^


View: https://vimeo.com/265542315


View: https://vimeo.com/228809512


View: https://vimeo.com/234221825

And from Spain: https://t.co/Iqa3qeJDLf
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What a great film from the Spanish riders. It just makes me want to do it all over again - I should go and lie down until the moment passes.
The thing I find remarkable is the amount and frequency of food eaten. I just don't eat enough on my rides. I can often go a full 125 miles - 200K on a single Clif Bar. No wonder I am in the bonking state much of the time. I am too impatient to sit down to eat. Something to fix, I think.
 
Ming the Merciless

Ming the Merciless

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blackrat said:
What a great film from the Spanish riders. It just makes me want to do it all over again - I should go and lie down until the moment passes.
The thing I find remarkable is the amount and frequency of food eaten. I just don't eat enough on my rides. I can often go a full 125 miles - 200K on a single Clif Bar. No wonder I am in the bonking state much of the time. I am too impatient to sit down to eat. Something to fix, I think.
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I think a few of us are in the bad habit of not eating enough and our performance drops off. A bit of decent food at appropriate points and I am sure the elapsed won’t be any longer, and you’ll feel better throughout.
 
Ajax Bay

Ajax Bay

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blackrat said:
The thing I find remarkable is the amount and frequency of food eaten. I just don't eat enough on my rides.
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It's remarkable what you can get away with on a 200 but (ime) 400 and up requires regular fuelling, and not waiting till 150km either.
On LEL I ate at every control except the first (St Ives) and twice at Louth on the way back. I put weight on btw.
From the 'impatient' PoV, LEL controls are super efficient for eating (but the 'no-faffing' rider needs to fill their bottles, eat and not fiddle with their phone, YMMV).
If you fail to eat enough, the killer is not lack of fuel: every one has more than enough fat to metabolise, but loss of appetite and being able to eat much at all and in extremis feeling/+ sick. I am determined to do better in the rides this spring and summer, ready for 3-8 August.
 
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Looking at the third video - Norwegians? - and how easy the videographer makes it look, I was reminded that when I ride long brevets I tend to lapse into my own private purgatory of misery . It is just as well that 13 hours for a 200K is the top end norm - although these days I usually make it in 9 1/2. There is a reason why Audax is a lone activity for many, it's a test of one's inner endurance. ;)
 
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