Paris Brest Paris 2015

[redfalo]

Thanks for your support! It was an amazing experince. I'm now on Eurostar for a week of Bromptoneering in ... France. Will report back afterwards.

 

[DCLane]

[QUOTE 3868263, member: 9609"]how much ascent was on the PBP ?[/QUOTE]

My Strava report had 10,000 metres: https://www.strava.com/activities/373638879

 

[zigzag]

yes, somewhere between 10,000-11,000 meters, depending how it is measured. plenty of hills although there aren't any steep ones, i rode it with 52/42 and 12-27 gears.

 

[srw]

@all you other nutters, have a couple, but flip the second one round. And if any of you are going to be on Sunday night's ferry back to Newhaven, see you there.

There were three or four people on the ferry in cycling kit, carrying that "I've ridden over 1200km in the last week and I'm very tired" staring-into-space look. I saw one machine at Dieppe with the tell-tale labels, but at Newhaven we were just about the last off so I didn't get to see them again.

 

[marcusjb]

Marcusjb deserves a mention in this thread not sure how he got on but he was riding fixed I think.

Second PBP for me, so doing things differently and did it on fixed - it's a fantastic parcours for fixed with nothing too steep at all (but it is relentless with the up and down and the downs can take their toll on a fixed rider's body).

I was determined to enjoy everything I hadn't in 2011, so was taking it very steady (I also didn't want to finish in under 86 hours as my wife was due at the finish) - I had a total laugh and got to lounge around the controls chatting and enjoyed just about every roadside stall on the way. Made new friends, strengthened older friendships.

It was a blast.

 

[Ian H]

Thanks for putting this together. There were several of us on fixed. Well done to everyone who finished and to all those who tried their best but didn't quite make it. I arrived home this afternoon, making around 1,700km in total.

 

[redfalo]

[QUOTE 3868263, member: 9609"]how much ascent was on the PBP ?[/QUOTE]
not too much, about 10000 meters in total. felt like more though

 

[PpPete]

I thought it felt like less !
I only used the granny ring twice - which is pretty astonishing for me. Once on the three-step climb to Merleac on the D53 (between Loudeac and Carhaix) after a timely warning from a French rider "pour la prochaine cote, mettre tout a gauche". The second time on the climb though the forest about 25km from the end (after Gambaiseul ?) Could have honked up both in the middle ring, but preferred to spin. Everything else was spinning in the middle ring.

 

[redfalo]

I thought it felt like less !
I only used the granny ring twice - which is pretty astonishing for me. Once on the three-step climb to Merleac on the D53 (between Loudeac and Carhaix) after a timely warning from a French rider "pour la prochaine cote, mettre tout a gauche". The second time on the climb though the forest about 25km from the end (after Gambaiseul ?) Could have honked up both in the middle ring, but preferred to spin. Everything else was spinning in the middle ring.

i did not bring a granny ring and did not
miss it :-) each climb in itself was very doable, but taken togehter, and multiplied with the overall distance, it was not too easy

 

[velovoice]

Second PBP for me, so doing things differently and did it on fixed - it's a fantastic parcours for fixed with nothing too steep at all (but it is relentless with the up and down and the downs can take their toll on a fixed rider's body).

I was determined to enjoy everything I hadn't in 2011, so was taking it very steady (I also didn't want to finish in under 86 hours as my wife was due at the finish) - I had a total laugh and got to lounge around the controls chatting and enjoyed just about every roadside stall on the way. Made new friends, strengthened older friendships.

It was a blast.

Loved your write-up over on your blog!!

 

[ianrauk]

agreed @velovoice , great reading @marcusjb ,The bread and butter thing is brilliant. Something so simple during something so huge.

 

[jo from the other place]

In the next week or so, I will be releasing an interactive visualization of the PBP results that will allow you to see any rider's performance relative to the cutoff times and other riders. It is based on the approach I took to visualizing the London-Edinburgh-London in 2013 (http://www.gicentre.net/blog/2013/10/31/lel). This time I've separated those registered for the 80h, 84h and 90h time limits. There remain some problems with the data as supplied by ACP, but the graphics are still informative. Here are a few preview images:

(Thanks to Axel Koenig for assembling the data from the ACP pages)

 

[jo from the other place]

And here's the animation of the riders over time and distance...

 

[DCLane]

Well done for pulling that together, and to the riders a huge chapeau. And I mean properly huge. Royal wedding / Ascot levels of silliness. Astounding.

I've just caught up with this. In my case your book triggered it

 

[Fubar]

Second PBP for me, so doing things differently and did it on fixed - it's a fantastic parcours for fixed with nothing too steep at all (but it is relentless with the up and down and the downs can take their toll on a fixed rider's body).

I was determined to enjoy everything I hadn't in 2011, so was taking it very steady (I also didn't want to finish in under 86 hours as my wife was due at the finish) - I had a total laugh and got to lounge around the controls chatting and enjoyed just about every roadside stall on the way. Made new friends, strengthened older friendships.

It was a blast.

Just finished reading your blog, loved it! Well done for helping each other, quite emotional stuff I'm sure.