RideLondon - Surrey 100 anyone?

[Phoenix Lincs]

That little bugger almost caught me out, that was harder than I thought it was going to be. Normally it'd be no bother, but after 90 miles it was a cow.

How about the bit coming after though going down the hill into and through Putney? That was ACE.

I knew about the hill as @Nomadski was amazing with his guide to the course, but I was still floored by it

 

[EltonFrog]

I knew about the hill as @Nomadski was amazing with his guide to the course, but I was still floored by it

I knew about it too thanks too @Nomadski, but looking at it on the profile, and knowing Wimbledon a little bit, I didn't think it would be all that hard. I reckon after 90 miles it took a bit of getting up. Bastid.

 

[jifdave]

Think I may have seen you on the Clipper home. The way they got the bikes on there was brilliant.
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Yup twas me on the clipper. The extra tall fella that got on last. Which one were you?

I dont like any of my photos I look like harry henderson stole a childs bike.

Im hoping the camera man got my grimace on the mall, I was bluffing with a mate as we got to 500m said I had nothing left.... got finish line fever at 300m to go and kicked he couldnt get my wheel, and. with 100m to go I was gurning like a fool from the burn in my legs.

http://www2.marathon-photos.com/scr...RideLondon-Surrey 100&photo=RLBT6277&bib=5491

 

[philinmerthyr]

Yesterday afternoon I was telling anyone who asked this I was putting my bike on Ebay today. Right at this moment in time Im erring towards HELL YEAH!

I think this is Steve Redgrave syndrome (if anyone sees me near a boat shoot me, 4 years later he was Olympic champion again)

I've already asked my charity for a place next year and I'm sure most of us will be back. The challenge next year is to be better than this year.

 

[philinmerthyr]

More photos are being posted on the marathon photos site all the time. I've got 21 so far. This one even shows me enjoying the ride up Box Hill

This one is a thanks to @Nomadski for letting me know what was in store for us and motivating me to ride up hills.

 

[aerobrain]

Did they say there'll be videos as well?

 

[Spally]

Well done on your time :-)

Some of those last short hills were gits!! Just when you're thinking, cool, roll to the end someone kept picking the road up lol :-)

I was expecting closer to 8 seeing as I did nowhere near enough training, and stopped at 55miles for a fag break. Intention for next year, if I get in again, train more and give up the fags

 

[Nomadski]

More photos are being posted on the marathon photos site all the time. I've got 21 so far. This one even shows me enjoying the ride up Box Hill

This one is a thanks to @Nomadski for letting me know what was in store for us and motivating me to ride up hills.



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Awesome. Youve done so much work on hills this year I never doubted the course would pose you a problem, well done mate.

 

[Nomadski]

Apparently next weeks episode of Cycle Show (Monday ITV4) will have a review of RideLondon. Hopefully the proper cyclists, not them guys with all the support cars...

 

[zizou]

Here is the run in to the finish from about 5km out

 

[Snail Bait]

Here is the run in to the finish from about 5km out

The downside of being so fast is that there were loads more bodies cheering us on by the time us slow coaches arrived.

 

[Snail Bait]

Yup twas me on the clipper. The extra tall fella that got on last. Which one were you?

Guide dogs shirt. One of the last on and got off at Canary Wharf.
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[Hill Wimp]

I've uploaded some handlebar video to youtube - nothing exciting but nice if you wanted to get a feel of what it was like...

There might be some people on here I was randomly drafting.. ;-)

http://www.youtube.com/user/cyclevid

That was fab seeing some of my daily commute in Putney completely traffic free. What a novelty.

Well done hope you are resting well.

 

[Hill Wimp]

Passed boris and don't think he saw the funny side when I asked why he wasn't on a boris bike great event great time had by me and smashed the time I had set myself. I got a few comments from other riders about my bike/clothing lol

http://www2.marathon-photos.com/scripts/photo.py?template=MPX2&event=Sports/CPUK/2013/Prudential RideLondon-Surrey 100&photo=RLBB3171&bib=15235

Hey thats the same colour as my bike. Love the matching top where's it from ?

 

[Hill Wimp]

Well when I entered I thought "can I really do 100 miles", then after some training I thought sub 8 hours would be possible. Finished the race in 5h42m after buying the bike in Feb and starting training around March time so I'm pretty chuffed!!

As a heavy rider I found the hills challenging although Newlands and Box were just a case of finding a speed and going steady. Leith nearly had me, down to 4mph but had a little word to myself and said the only way I'm getting off my bike was in a heap and made it to the top :-) The Newlands descent was quite simply amazing!! Leith was good but the narrow, shady lanes with other riders around, coupled with me being a novice around other riders meant I was on the brakes a lot.

Other than conquering the hills, smashing my time expectations, riding on the Mall....... etc etc, the highlight was starting in a wave that included Lee Dixon, Laura Trott and Dani King, took my opportunity in the neutral zone to overtake them which put a smile on my face :-) The bigger smile came though when I came out of the tunnel near the start on my own, looking back and seeing the "peleton" bearing down on me, just made me feel like I was in the closing stages of Le Tour lol :-)

If there intention was to give the average Jo the feeling of being a pro rider for the day and achieving new goals then they passed the test 100%!!! Reminder set in the phone for the 2014 ballot and already set my target of 5h20m for when I next do it :-)

BUZZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thats a great story, well done it looked fab from the TV