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  1. Original post
    Arthur Clune
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    Verbatim. Don't blame me if it's not clear!

    Start and finish Bluebird Cafe, Lake Road Coniston

    Bluebird Cafe 0.0 miles
    B5285 to Hawkshead
    Left Ambleside @ 3.3
    Drunken Duck 5.5
    Left Ambleside 6.3
    Right Ambleside A593 7.4
    Right Windermere A591 8
    Waterhead 8.7
    Lt Troutbeck (holbeck lane) 9.7
    Troutbeck Village
    Left Kirkstone 13
    Kirkstone Inn summit 16
    Post office patterdale 21.4
    Glenridding Village 22.3
    LT A5091 Matterdale End 24.7
    Matterdale Village 27
    Troutbeck (North)
    A66 Left Keswick 30
    Left AT roundabout
    Direction Keswick 38.5
    Borrowdale B5289 39.5
    Rosthwaite Village 45.5
    Seatoller 47
    Honister Summit 46.5
    YHA Buttermere 53 (CONTROL)
    Right Keswick
    Newlands Summit 54.5
    Lt Braithwaite (royal oak) 60
    Winlatter Summit 62.6
    Lt Lorton to Lowswater 66
    Lowswater 68.9
    Left Ennerdate 74
    Lt ennerdate & croasdale 76
    Right Ennerdale Bridge 78.3
    Left Whitehaven 79
    Left Calder Bridge 80.8
    Cold Fell Summit 82.5
    Left Gosforth 87.8
    Left Gosforfh 89.8
    <CONTROL IN GOSFORTH>
    RIght Santon Bridge 93.2
    Irton Pike Summit 94.5
    Eskdale Green 95.3
    Left King George IV 96.8
    Boot 98.6
    Hardknott Summit 102.3
    Cockley Beck 103.5
    Wrynose Summit 105.5
    Fell Foot 107
    Little Langdale 108.5
    Right Coniston 109.5
    Right Consiton 110.5
    Finsh Lake Road
    Bluebird Cafe 114 miles

    Notes:

    The route is not marshalled
    A lead car will take you the first five miles. Then you're on you're own

    Cut off time at buttermere 12.30
    For the 8 o'clock starters this is 11.77MPH
    For the 9 o'clock starters this is 15.14MPH

    Certificates will be presented at the finish.

    ------------------------------------------

    Don't ask me how easy to follow this lot are - I make a point of not looking
    at the route sheet on events like this.

    Arthur

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  2. Arthur Clune
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    Arthur Clune <[email hidden]> wrote:

    : Start and finish Bluebird Cafe, Lake Road Coniston

    [snip]

    Well, people asked for it. I typed it in. But did anyone
    actually read it?

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    Arthur Clune http://www.clune.org
    "Technolibertarians make a philosophy out of a personality defect"
    - Paulina Borsook

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  3. Colin Blackburn
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    Arthur Clune said:

    Arthur Clune <[email hidden]> wrote:

    : Start and finish Bluebird Cafe, Lake Road Coniston

    [snip]

    Well, people asked for it. I typed it in. But did anyone
    actually read it?

    Yes. Read, saved, printed and put in as a route in Memory Map. And, very
    much appreciated.

    All I have to do now is consider riding it!

    Thanks.

    Colin

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  4. Arthur Clune
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    Colin Blackburn <[email hidden]> wrote:
    : Yes. Read, saved, printed and put in as a route in Memory Map. And, very
    : much appreciated.

    Excellent. It was worth my time then!

    Allow plenty of time when you ride it - most people on the event finished in
    8 - 10 hours (fair few in 7 - 8 and some up to 12. Few < 7 hours). And that's
    with not really having to navigate at all.

    Arthur

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    Arthur Clune http://www.clune.org
    "Technolibertarians make a philosophy out of a personality defect"
    - Paulina Borsook

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  5. Arthur Clune
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    Full results:

    http://web.onetel.net.uk/~barrieclarke/Fred%20Whitton%20Challenge04Results.htm

    Should give you some idea of the spread of times.

    Arthur

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    Arthur Clune http://www.clune.org
    "Technolibertarians make a philosophy out of a personality defect"
    - Paulina Borsook

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  6. Richard Goodman
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    "Arthur Clune" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:


    Full results:


    http://web.onetel.net.uk/~barrieclarke/Fred%20Whitton%20Challenge04Results.htm

    Quoted message said:


    Should give you some idea of the spread of times.

    Arthur

    Saved it for future reference. It just seems almost incomprehensible to me
    that anyone could fly around a course that hilly in 6 hours! I suppose you
    were the Arthur Clunb who did it in 7.07 - still seems seriously quick?

    Rich

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  7. Arthur Clune
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    Richard Goodman <[email hidden]> wrote:

    : Saved it for future reference. It just seems almost incomprehensible to me
    : that anyone could fly around a course that hilly in 6 hours! I suppose you
    : were the Arthur Clunb who did it in 7.07 - still seems seriously quick?

    Yeah. My handwriting is appaling, hence the "b".

    Arthur

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    Arthur Clune http://www.clune.org
    "Technolibertarians make a philosophy out of a personality defect"
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  8. SW
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    "Arthur Clune" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

    Quoted message said:

    Allow plenty of time when you ride it - most people on the event finished in
    8 - 10 hours (fair few in 7 - 8 and some up to 12. Few < 7 hours). And that's
    with not really having to navigate at all.

    Arthur

    Thanks for the info Arthur. I would be interested in having a go at
    this but was wondering what sort of bike most people use ? I can
    just about cycle up the Hard Knott on my mountain bike but that has a
    very low bottom gear (24 on the front, 30+ on the back), so I imagine
    road bikes would need something similar. Or can you get away with a
    higher gear if you are reasonably fit (I'm not) ?

    SW.

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  9. Arthur Clune
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    SW <[email hidden]> wrote:

    : Thanks for the info Arthur. I would be interested in having a go at
    : this but was wondering what sort of bike most people use ? I can
    : just about cycle up the Hard Knott on my mountain bike but that has a
    : very low bottom gear (24 on the front, 30+ on the back), so I imagine
    : road bikes would need something similar. Or can you get away with a
    : higher gear if you are reasonably fit (I'm not) ?

    Rob Jebb went passed me on hardnott on what looked like 39x25. He was moving
    though.

    A few people road roadifed MTBs (with slick high pressure tyres).

    Lots of triples on road bikes. Of the people with doubles most were running
    a dinner plate rear sprocket - so 39/29 on Campag, 39/28 or 39/32 on Shimano
    with MTB cassetes and mech (saw a lot of this).

    I rode 34/48 13/26 which was fine for me. I had to walk to very steep bit
    of hardknott though since (my excuse anyway) I got blocked by a car. I rode
    everything else in reasonable comfort (that of course being relative here)

    On a road bike a 30x26 bottom gear should be fine for most people.

    Arthur

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  10. MSeries
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    SW said:

    "Arthur Clune" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    news:<[email hidden]>...

    Quoted message said:

    Allow plenty of time when you ride it - most people on the event
    finished in 8 - 10 hours (fair few in 7 - 8 and some up to 12. Few <
    7 hours). And that's
    with not really having to navigate at all.

    Arthur

    Thanks for the info Arthur. I would be interested in having a go at
    this but was wondering what sort of bike most people use ? I can
    just about cycle up the Hard Knott on my mountain bike but that has a
    very low bottom gear (24 on the front, 30+ on the back), so I imagine
    road bikes would need something similar. Or can you get away with a
    higher gear if you are reasonably fit (I'm not) ?

    SW.

    I read it Arthur, sure enough I did over half this route in the opposite
    direction last week. As for gearing, I failed to get up the East sides of
    Wrynose and Hardknott on 36x32 :-( This is about 29 "

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