"MSeries" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
>MartinM wrote: > >>I think we may have scared the others off!; if you prefer to do it as a >>proper tour no problem, it is probably quite a scary first 400 >> > >I'd be up for doing this as a 400 but I'd need more than one stop and I >think I'd be slower than you.
Still count me in for either!
I'm not bothered about how long it takes or the number of stops, will probably get the last flight/train home on the Sunday, so an early Sat am start should give us plenty of time. It does sound like a good alternative to anything else next year
BTW how much sleep did you get on LEL? I am banking on doing PBP as 4 300's with a 3-4 hr kip between each leg. 4 hrs was plenty on the 600.
We had about 7 hours off each night except after the first leg when we took 6 off (from 05:00 to 11:00) , usually we arrived at about 22:00, ate, maybe showered, rose at 05:00 on the road at about 06:00. Here's the daily schedule
Thorne - Dalkeith (410km) Dalkeith - Langdon Beck YH (205 km) Langdon Beck YH - Lincoln YH (283 km) Lincoln YH - Lee Valley YH - Gamlingay (287km) Gamlingay - Thorne (232km)
You make it sound so easy (I know LEL is supposed to be easier than PBP due to the lower average) Just been up the club night with someone who rode PBP in '87, with 20 mins sleep!! I fully intend to start with the 90 hr crowd, the DD was very reassuring as I rode straight through the night and could easily have ridden another 1-200k before I needed to crash ( as Dave L showed)
Does LEL expand to a return journey from the big stink to the scottish capital?
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If so, how long do you take for it?
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One day .... not credible.
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A couple of weeks ... well, that's ordinary touring.
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LEL runs from near London (Lee Valley YH) to near Edinburgh (Dalkieth) and back. Thorne starters started in South Yorkshire, went north, then south, then back to Thorne.
Time allowed was between 47 and 116 hours (12-30kph)
Easter would be good. The main issue will be which route over the hills. Which way did LEL cross the pennines?
Up Teesdale, Barnard Castle to Alston over Yad Moss, then on to Brampton. I have tentavily signed up for a weekend in Wales, cycling of course at Easter. Just to get this clear, I was thinking of a tour for this, 80-100 miles per day staying indoors each night.
Keep me posted. I am almost certain to be doing something else but if not then I'd be interested in joining the group somewhere in the North Pennines for the rest of the trip to Edinburgh.
Have you seen my house? ;-) it's a question of time; I really want to do la Marmotte next year, and the year after is of course PBP. I ought to do 2 400's as well (Invicta and a home made
La Marmotte isn't a bad prep for PBP I'd say. If you can get fit enough to ride that in a decent time, you should be able to do PBP the year after.
I'd recommended La Marmotte; I did it last year and had an excellent time. It is a *very* hard ride though. Do lots of hills before you go!
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Absolutely barking. As if the LEL was not mad enough he does it on a fixed!
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An excellent report of the recent London-Edinburgh-London run, worth as wide an audience as possible. Apologies to those who dislike my advertising acf on urc - I don't do it that often. You don't have to join to read.
My panniers are packed for the E2E. We set off for cornwall tomorrow afternoon. 11th Aug is day one for E2E. I'm excited and a tad anxious as I seem to have a trapped nerve in my neck/shoulder. My GP has suggested getting Yoga video and attempting to make a fool of myself.
I'll be maintaining a Blog. I'll post details later.
Absolutely barking. As if the LEL was not mad enough he does it on a fixed!
It's Phil Chadwick, I think. He always rides fixed.
seriously fit though, he left me for dead on both the Elenith and Denmead 400, on fixed natch. It could also be Steve Airey.
Phil, Judith Swallow and I finished the Denmead 400 together as a little grouplet, and although I had caught them up about an hour previously I was struggling to hang on to them by the time we actually got in. You had an excuse for slowing up in that you were dying of exposure at the time. I think the author must be Phil rather than Steve as I met him in Scotland coming south as I was going north and he was swathed in blood-stained bandages.
I submit that on or about Fri, 29 Jul 2005 12:25:20 +0100, the person known to the court as "Dave Larrington" <[email hidden]> made a statement (<[email hidden]> in Your Honour's bundle) to the following effect:
An excellent report of the recent London-Edinburgh-London run, worth as wide an audience as possible. Apologies to those who dislike my advertising acf on urc - I don't do it that often.
I submit that on or about Fri, 29 Jul 2005 12:25:20 +0100, the person known to the court as "Dave Larrington" <[email hidden]> made a statement (<[email hidden]> in Your Honour's bundle) to the following effect:
I submit that on or about Fri, 29 Jul 2005 19:44:43 +0100, the person known to the court as Simon Brooke <[email hidden]> made a statement (<[email hidden]> in Your Honour's bundle) to the following effect:
