Seeya! - arallsopp does the LEL

[Scoosh]

I'm almost sorry to finally read the end but I echo everyone's sentiment of an amazing ride and story and did I read that was your first audax, your first, you chose the LEL as your first audax! Incredible.

+1

Truly an epic ride and epic ride report.

THANK YOU

 

[Telemark]

Brilliant! 2 epics, one on the road and one in the writing!
Agree with others on getting it published ...

Are you going to do an epilogue for us? Please?
I would be very interested in how quickly (or slowly) you recovered from this amazing physical and mental effort. And what you might do differently [whisper mode] if you were to do something like this again [/whisper mode]

T

 

[zigzag]

Wow - what a story!! I am fascinated how you were able to capture so much detail, to remember all that! My memories were quite simple: need to eat, need to sleep, up the hill, down the hill, nice view, rain again, noisy achilles etc. Your story took me back to the event in a different dimension - I re-lived it once again with every fine detail, images, sounds, smells. Thank you - absolutely fantastic!

R

 

[arallsopp]

Thanks all for such kind words. I'm so glad to have had the opportunity to share this with you. I'm actually really going to miss having this hang over me.

 

[ttcycle]

No doubt you will miss it so much it won't be long before you sign up for something similar - it's mouse blood in those veins!! Well done - great achievement!

 

[4F]

Excellent write up Andy, a cracking read.

 

[jay clock]

+1 for a great read. I had seen the title a few months back, and for whatever reason mentally had it as you were doing a tour to Scotland and back over a couple of weeks. I had not twigged it was "the" LEL.

What is even better, is if you read here http://www.cyclechat.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=21413 then you will find that back in October 08 arallsopp was only doing 10 miles a week!

 

[jay clock]

Having read some arallsopp's other posts I found this amazing video by him of a trip France - superb

 

[arallsopp]

If you read here http://www.cyclechat.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=21413 then you will find that back in October 08 arallsopp was only doing 10 miles a week!

LOL! Thanks for reminding me of that. Amazing how 'normal' baselines just shift isn't it

Personally, I'm amazed Greenbank put up with me. If not for the asinine questions beforehand, surely for mistaking him for a pixie during

 

[Arch]

Brilliant! 2 epics, one on the road and one in the writing!
Agree with others on getting it published ...

Are you going to do an epilogue for us? Please?
I would be very interested in how quickly (or slowly) you recovered from this amazing physical and mental effort. And what you might do differently [whisper mode] if you were to do something like this again [/whisper mode]

T

+1 on the epilogue! it would be great to have a view from now, just to tail it all off.

Excellent stuff, is all I can say.

 

[Greenbank]

LOL! Thanks for reminding me of that. Amazing how 'normal' baselines just shift isn't it

Personally, I'm amazed Greenbank put up with me. If not for the asinine questions beforehand, surely for mistaking him for a pixie during

And, as you found out, all you need is a big bag of HTFU.

Better a pixie than a tramp (I heard one women tell her child to "keep away from the tramp on the bench" whilst I was having a mid-morning doze on an Audax once).

Good work on the report. You should pull it all together and post it on one page when you're done with the epilogue...

 

[arallsopp]

Sorry bud. There's a character limit to each post, and even a few single legs fouled it before splitting
I may push it all into a PDF and link that though. Despite the efforts of a few die-hards, its a lot of text to sift through in a forum.

 

[dmoan]

Thank you so much for taking the effort to post your reports. It is so inspirational to follow your journey - you had me holding my breath at some points, willing you on to the next stop for some food and a little sleep! Bet you never look at cable-ties without a sense of deep-felt appreciation now!

It was a fantastic read, beautifully written and a phenomenal achievement - chapeau, Sir! Chapeau!

 

[MacB]

Fantastic Andy, the most entertaining write up I've enjoyed, but came to an end too quickly.................now when you're writing up your round the world trip that should give us a bit more to sink our teeth into

 

[Arch]

Sorry bud. There's a character limit to each post, and even a few single legs fouled it before splitting
I may push it all into a PDF and link that though. Despite the efforts of a few die-hards, its a lot of text to sift through in a forum.

I'm happy to cut and paste it all into a word document, if you like, which I could then email you (I'm not sure I can make PDFs at home). In fact I have an unexpected day off tomorrow.

I'll even throw in a free professional proof-read. Although I don't think it needs it.