England : London Sunday London ride

[User10571]

@ User10571. Sounds like it was a great ride. However the fact you guys completed your ride and was only collared at the end surely speaks volumes about the 'security' or lack of today?

There are some on the LFGSS board who would love to have been on this ride.......... :-).

I'll have to have a look W.
I thought they weren't doing it this year.... from what I'd seen...

Plenty of others - Dulwich Paragon and many,
many others out today though.

Don't know how many crossed the finishing line...

EDIT - Link to LFG&SS Marathon ride page pls?
I cannot seem to find it...

J

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

User10571, it would be interesting to know how the Dulwich Paragon riders got on. (I forgot to ask whether you'd seen any sign of them near the finish.) Personally I didn't really mind getting collared by security at Buckingham Palace because it's just such a joy to get that rare sense of space on London's roads, but it might be interesting to know how far they got and what they encountered on the way. FWIW, they were a good 10 minutes ahead of you at the 7 mile marker, rolling a little faster but by no means racing. They may have avoided the ''Guys, it's 9 o'clock, you have to stop now'' message we seemed to be getting at the end.

 

[ceepeebee]

didn't we see them going in the opposite direction not long after crossing tower bridge and turning east?

 

[Mark Grant]

I got up at 4am, went downstairs and out into the chilly early morning air..... then went back to bed.
I'm kicking myself now!

 

[User10571]

I got up at 4am, went downstairs and out into the chilly early morning air..... then went back to bed.
I'm kicking myself now!

That's made me laugh, Mark.
Lots.
Not maliciously, you understand...

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

didn't we see them going in the opposite direction not long after crossing tower bridge and turning east?

Yes, we did. They were on their way back towards Tower Bridge after doing the Île des chiens étape.

User10571: Link to LFGSS marathon ride thread.

 

[User10571]

Yes, we did. They were on their way back towards Tower Bridge after doing the Île des chiens étape.

User10571: Link to LFGSS marathon ride thread.

Thing is..... from that I'm not under the impression that they did it (although I did spot a fair few fixers).... this year...

Not that it's about one-upmanship or anything - really.

 

[Mark Grant]

That's made me laugh, Mark.
Lots.
Not maliciously, you understand...

Last night I'd prep'd the bike, batteries in the lights, plotted a route, had a couple of Marathon (snickers) bars ready for breakfast, but alas Morpheus was more alluring than you!

 

[StuAff]

Last night I'd prep'd the bike, batteries in the lights, plotted a route, had a couple of Marathon (snickers) bars ready for breakfast, but alas Morpheus was more alluring than you!

Understandable...even if if the spirit was willing to join the ride, the flesh might have still been weak (same here!)...

 

[User10571]

Last night I'd prep'd the bike, batteries in the lights, plotted a route, had a couple of Marathon (snickers) bars ready for breakfast, but alas Morpheus was more alluring than you!

Tops!

 

[saoirse50]

This ride did indeed provide more oodles more fun early on a Sunday morning than one could hope to expect. Tons of thanks, User10571.
I had a strange dream about it last night when that guy we kept passing who was always heading, oddly, in the opposite direction to us was constantly cycling past and then cycling backwards at double speed as if on rewind. User10571 and cpb kept trying to catch him, although however fast you both rode, he kept passing you again and again. I was madly waving a pedal at cpb, shouting, "what's wrong with toeclips!"

 

[ceepeebee]

I've seen that dude before, always along that same bit of road too, come to think of it at the same time-ish. A bit of fiddling with strava makes out that we did 2:20 for the actual marathon, take out my dumb mechanical and a couple of bits of cone-slalom and we might have done an elite time......

Weirdly, I've had more "clipless moments" with straps back in the day than I've had with SPDs in the last couple of years.

 

[clarion]

Sounds like a cracking ride. And all the more special for probably being the last.

Although they may up the security next year and charge wannabes to ride it as a sportive...

 

[Becs]

Anyone riding next Sunday? It may be my last SLR for quite some time

 

[martint235]

Anyone riding next Sunday? It may be my last SLR for quite some time

Nope sorry. I'm off the bike for a couple of weeks