steverob
Guru
- Location
- Buckinghamshire
92 new tiles gained by doing RideLondon. No addition to my cluster although it wouldn't take too much to integrate the bottom left corner.
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Nice one, how did you get on?
steverob
Guru
- Location
- Buckinghamshire
Really quite good overall. The weather forecast in the days before was slowly getting worse and worse, but in the end it didn't turn out too bad. Instead of raining heavily during the whole of the ride as predicted, the rain came early and fell overnight, which meant very wet roads at the start and therefore loads of spray for the first 40 miles or so (and a number of very large puddles), but those eventually dried off. There was a brief storm at about 11:30 where it absolutely tipped it down for about 10 minutes (even a little bit of hail) when I was at about the 80 mile mark, which once again made the roads very wet, but that was the only precipitation while riding.
Tailwind on the way out meant I did some ridiculously high average speeds (for me anyway) and even on the way back, I had a 12 mile stretch where I was able to hold on to a group from Tottenham Cycling and the Eritrean Cyclist Network (or at least that's what their jerseys said) which sheltered me from the headwind, but they all peeled off at the third rest area unfortunately and as I'd only planned on stopping once (second rest area at 53 miles), I ploughed on regardless. Struggled a bit towards the end, but even that was relative - last 20 miles, which included the only real climb of the day, was still done at slightly over 15mph, which I'd normally be quite happy to achieve on a normal ride.
Chip time was officially 5h 58m 39s, although they do stop the timer around the three big rest areas, so add on a few minutes for the 1st and 3rd that I cruised past and didn't stop at (you still pass the timing mats at both even if you're going straight on), and just under 25 minutes at the one I did use, meaning my start line to finish line time really was 6:27:50.
Tailwind on the way out meant I did some ridiculously high average speeds (for me anyway) and even on the way back, I had a 12 mile stretch where I was able to hold on to a group from Tottenham Cycling and the Eritrean Cyclist Network (or at least that's what their jerseys said) which sheltered me from the headwind, but they all peeled off at the third rest area unfortunately and as I'd only planned on stopping once (second rest area at 53 miles), I ploughed on regardless. Struggled a bit towards the end, but even that was relative - last 20 miles, which included the only real climb of the day, was still done at slightly over 15mph, which I'd normally be quite happy to achieve on a normal ride.
Chip time was officially 5h 58m 39s, although they do stop the timer around the three big rest areas, so add on a few minutes for the 1st and 3rd that I cruised past and didn't stop at (you still pass the timing mats at both even if you're going straight on), and just under 25 minutes at the one I did use, meaning my start line to finish line time really was 6:27:50.
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Did a 100 mile Audax today starting from Oundle in Northants which did a big loop and just clipped my bottom right corner ,gained 88 squares total now 6288 but added just 4 to my max cluster total now 3331. @Supersuperleeds did the same ride and added a few to his total but won't be as many as me as he is already done quite a lot of the route
Supersuperleeds
Legendary Member
- Location
- Leicester
lazybloke
Priest of the cult of Chris Rea
- Location
- Leafy Surrey
I'm still on 14x14 for my max max square. but just 2 rides would take me to 16x16, and I have the foundations for 20x20 later this year.
Beyond that will be more challenging, particularly if I ride other people's routes, eg today which added 11 to my max cluster, but could have been so much better.
Beyond that will be more challenging, particularly if I ride other people's routes, eg today which added 11 to my max cluster, but could have been so much better.
lazybloke
Priest of the cult of Chris Rea
- Location
- Leafy Surrey
It's not my neck of the woods, but a quick search on openstreetmap shows a bridleway heading west out of Culworth (blue dashed path).
I always find myself on these paths on a road bike with slick, skinny tyres. I'm sure there won't be any mud!
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Supersuperleeds
Legendary Member
- Location
- Leicester
I'd be doing it from the footpath circled red, it goes through a field which you would need to walk, but looks like it goes onto a tarmac road at the purple circle where the private road joins it.
Ah cheers. Where did you get the HS2 map? And do you know what the grey area around the HS2 dotted line mean?
The map is from OpenStreetMap: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=14/52.1178/-1.2403
Querying the grey area using the arrow with the question mark at the lower right of the screen tells you that it is 'Construction Area HS2'. The other greyed out areas are similar.
I assume that there is a master plan somewhere describing how all the rights of way have been affected.
Querying the grey area using the arrow with the question mark at the lower right of the screen tells you that it is 'Construction Area HS2'. The other greyed out areas are similar.
I assume that there is a master plan somewhere describing how all the rights of way have been affected.
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More info: https://www.hs2.org.uk/work-items/h...c-right-of-way-closures-culworth-and-edgcote/
Bridleways AG9 and AG10 that are referred to (and that I used) are shown below:
Bridleways AG9 and AG10 that are referred to (and that I used) are shown below:
