The Great Escape 2015 - 200km audax - London-Essex

[John Shingler]

<------I'll look like that.

 

[Nigel182]

<------- I'll look like that plus a few since that Pic.....!!!!

 

[arallsopp]

Hmmm...

I'm scrolling through the route sheet and GPX tracks, and can't reconcile this instruction:

• 25.5: R on to Ivy Chimneys Road (SP Ivy Chimneys, Coopersale)

Is that a L really, or is the junction a different shape than it looks in Basecamp?




I think I may have forgotten an awful lot about how these things work. Hopefully its just me. I was loading up the track to see if I could add proximity alerts for the CONTROLs, so haven't actually looked at more than 3% of the track.

 

[arallsopp]

Hmmm... Maybe the GPS track and routesheet don't agree.

Looks like the route sheet sends you down a track that's not present in my Garmin map, just after you pass under the M25. Ridewithgps shows the path at least (it exits where the map says B1393).



That would make sense of the R on to Ivy Chimneys, as you'll approach from the south.

Wait a minute, then shouldn't the R on Theydon Road below become an L?

• 24.8: Pass under M25 and IMM R on to path to join Theydon Road
• 25.3: R on Theydon Road
• 25.5: R on to Ivy Chimneys Road (SP Ivy Chimneys, Coopersale)

I may stop looking, I feel. I've not tried to read a route sheet since 2009, and even then I had plenty of other things to keep me from fretting about mere directions

 

[ShannonBall]

Only 32 places left, when they are gone, they are gone

Enter at: http://www.aukweb.net/events/detail/15-251/

 

[ShannonBall]

7 places left.... grab them quick.

 

[ShannonBall]

SOLD OUT

 

[rb58]

Hmmm... Maybe the GPS track and routesheet don't agree.

Looks like the route sheet sends you down a track that's not present in my Garmin map, just after you pass under the M25. Ridewithgps shows the path at least (it exits where the map says B1393).

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That would make sense of the R on to Ivy Chimneys, as you'll approach from the south.

Wait a minute, then shouldn't the R on Theydon Road below become an L?

• 24.8: Pass under M25 and IMM R on to path to join Theydon Road
• 25.3: R on Theydon Road
• 25.5: R on to Ivy Chimneys Road (SP Ivy Chimneys, Coopersale)

I may stop looking, I feel. I've not tried to read a route sheet since 2009, and even then I had plenty of other things to keep me from fretting about mere directions

I'm just going to follow you....

 

[ianrauk]

I'm just going to follow you....

And I'm going to follow you following Andy...

 

[Mark Grant]

Me too!

 

[John Shingler]

I'm gonna be following all of you

 

[John Shingler]

Is there anyone coming from Essex way ..best advice on how to get to LMNH would be appreciated. Cheers.

 

[Nigel182]

Is there anyone coming from Essex way ..best advice on how to get to LMNH would be appreciated. Cheers.

I'll probably be riding up think the earliest train up for me gets there well after the start will check nearer the time to be sure though.

 

[Rustybucket]

My train gets me in at Waterloo for 8.06am - will then have to make a dash to the start, will hopefully get there before the last person sets off!

 

[John Shingler]

hmm yes earliest train from Upminster gets to Fenchurch Street 07:53