2005 London Edinburgh London Audax Information

MSeries

MartinM wrote:
> I'm interested in the 800km LEL event but hard to find out about it.
> What 600's are folk doing to prepare for LEL? (you don't have to ride
> one unlike PBP but a good idea) the only one I ever rode has gone now.
>

I might do a Permanent such as York-Cambridge-York but modify it to do
it from home. Or do the 3 Seas from Halifax which is close to me. It is
essentially Halifax to East Coast and back then Halifax to West Coast
and back. Or I might just do my own thang.

I think the 800Km LEL starts from Thorne and goes to Endinburgh back.

MartinM

MSeries wrote:
> MartinM wrote:
> > I'm interested in the 800km LEL event but hard to find out about
it.
> > What 600's are folk doing to prepare for LEL? (you don't have to
ride
> > one unlike PBP but a good idea) the only one I ever rode has gone
now.
> >
>
> I might do a Permanent such as York-Cambridge-York but modify it to
do
> it from home. Or do the 3 Seas from Halifax which is close to me. It
is
> essentially Halifax to East Coast and back then Halifax to West Coast

> and back. Or I might just do my own thang.
>
> I think the 800Km LEL starts from Thorne and goes to Endinburgh back.

There is a 600km semi-organised perm Cambridge-York this year on Jul
2nd, nearly entered it but the thought of having to make up my own
route was too daunting. The Long flat 600 from Doncaster is supposedly
an easy one.

MSeries

MartinM wrote:
> MSeries wrote:
>
>>MartinM wrote:
>>
>>>I'm interested in the 800km LEL event but hard to find out about
>
> it.
>
>>>What 600's are folk doing to prepare for LEL? (you don't have to
>
> ride
>
>>>one unlike PBP but a good idea) the only one I ever rode has gone
>
> now.
>
>>I might do a Permanent such as York-Cambridge-York but modify it to
>
> do
>
>>it from home. Or do the 3 Seas from Halifax which is close to me. It
>
> is
>
>>essentially Halifax to East Coast and back then Halifax to West Coast
>
>
>>and back. Or I might just do my own thang.
>>
>>I think the 800Km LEL starts from Thorne and goes to Endinburgh back.
>
>
> There is a 600km semi-organised perm Cambridge-York this year on Jul
> 2nd, nearly entered it but the thought of having to make up my own
> route was too daunting. The Long flat 600 from Doncaster is supposedly
> an easy one.
>

Its the same as Y-C-Y, one can do it from either end or as one or two
300s I believe. I like making my own routes which is one less
'attraction' of orgainsed events for me. I thought the Lonf Flat One had
been discontinued ? leaving Y-C-Y the only easy 600 in the North. The
White Rose 600 also out of York is plain silly.

Helen Deborah Vecht

"MartinM" <martinm3@wcms.org.uk>typed


> There is a 600km semi-organised perm Cambridge-York this year on Jul
> 2nd, nearly entered it but the thought of having to make up my own
> route was too daunting. The Long flat 600 from Doncaster is supposedly
> an easy one.

Easy but DULL! I think they've demolished many of the cooling towers
that were such a salient feature...

--
Helen D. Vecht: helenvecht@zetnet.co.uk
Edgware.

Dave Larrington

Jon Senior wrote:

> Go on then. Who's thinking about it? :-)

I'm thinking about what a silly idea it would be, but my chum Dr. Cox has
mentioned it. I am arranging prior engagements with all the dignity I can
muster. Aiming for P-B-P 2007.

P.S. Trice is actually doing an Audax on Sunday :-)

--

Dave Larrington - http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk/
World Domination?
Just find a world that's into that kind of thing, then chain to the
floor and walk up and down on it in high heels. (Mr. Sunshine)

MartinM

MSeries wrote:

I thought the Long Flat One had
> been discontinued ?

Yes it has according to the calendar

leaving Y-C-Y the only easy 600 in the North. The
> White Rose 600 also out of York is plain silly.

I nearly did an Essex based 600 for my SR until I found out that it
spent almost no time in East Anglia and went over to the Cotswolds
instead ;-(

MartinM

I'm sure I read somewhere that many of those who packed on PBP
qualified on the LFO.

David Martin

On 14/1/05 4:00 pm, in article
1105718426.399176.163250@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com, "MartinM"
<martinm3@wcms.org.uk> wrote:

>
> MSeries wrote:
>
> I thought the Long Flat One had
>> been discontinued ?
>
> Yes it has according to the calendar
>
> leaving Y-C-Y the only easy 600 in the North. The
>> White Rose 600 also out of York is plain silly.
>
> I nearly did an Essex based 600 for my SR until I found out that it
> spent almost no time in East Anglia and went over to the Cotswolds
> instead ;-(

I suppose that with the longer rides, it doesn't matter where you start, the
ride will go everywhere else eventually. You just pick the start out of
convenience to get there/back.

Still can't quite conceive of doing more than a 200 at the moment. That is
my target for this year (a 200 km audax and a sub 28 minute ten).

...d

MartinM

I suppose that with the longer rides, it doesn't matter where you
start, the
ride will go everywhere else eventually. You just pick the start out of
convenience to get there/back

that's what I thought with the 600 I did, in fact it never went further
than about 100km from the start. It also dispelled any thoughts I had
about East Anglia being flat.

MartinM

Watership Down by any chance?

Dave Larrington

MartinM wrote:
> Watership Down by any chance?

Indeed. Provided it doesn't break on the way home. I realise this is
leaving the testing of the new seat installation until the last possible
moment, but I've been off with the dreaded lurgi all week.

Bah!

--

Dave Larrington - http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk/
World Domination?
Just find a world that's into that kind of thing, then chain to the
floor and walk up and down on it in high heels. (Mr. Sunshine)

Tim Hall

On 14 Jan 2005 08:37:23 -0800, "MartinM" <martinm3@wcms.org.uk> wrote:

>Watership Down by any chance?


And I can't make it. (Sorry Martin, should have replied to your email
some weeks back).



Tim

Jon Senior

David Martin wrote:
> I suppose that with the longer rides, it doesn't matter where you start, the
> ride will go everywhere else eventually. You just pick the start out of
> convenience to get there/back.
>
> Still can't quite conceive of doing more than a 200 at the moment. That is
> my target for this year (a 200 km audax and a sub 28 minute ten).

I've always run on the mindset of aiming stupidly high and then seeing
how close I can get. I may actually have to work out some proper
training for this one though. ;-)

Jon

Jon Senior

Dave Larrington wrote:
> Indeed. Provided it doesn't break on the way home. I realise this is
> leaving the testing of the new seat installation until the last possible
> moment, but I've been off with the dreaded lurgi all week.

I was considering asking how you'd got on with that, but you obviously
hadn't! ;-) I did get an enquiry the other day from someone who'd seen
the website[1] who was looking at fitting the HPVelo seat to a KMX-X.
I'll drop him a line in a month or so and see how he got on.

Jon

[1] Scary actually. My email address is not published on the website, so
he read it, gleaned my name from a different page to the one featuring
the seat, then found me (presumably via Google groups), de-spammed my
email address and got in touch. I was thoroughly impressed.