I'm up for a 200 in late June too.
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Audax + sportives 2015
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Entry for the Honest Toun Daunder 100 Km and Honest Toun Dawdle 50 Km Audax, are now open for all those who want to take part.
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Is it me or do the EdFoc links do not work?
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It's you (or time)
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Hello,
Just a quick email to remind that the 2015 Bethany Sportive is just a few weeks away and takes place on Saturday 6th June, leaving from Lasswade High School Centre. I would be extremely grateful if you could bring this email to the attention of your members as I’m sure this is an event they would be interested in.
This exciting event for serious amateurs provides three different challenge routes. The Super Challenge Route is 102 miles; the Challenge Route of 72 miles is available for those who would not be able to complete the Super Challenge Route within 8 hours; finally, this year we have introduced a shorter Taster Challenge Route of 30 miles.
This year we are introducing chip timing so that each rider can be individually timed. Feed and water stations will be on hand offering the riders refreshments along the way. There are only 400 places available in the Sportive, with a competitive entry fee of just £36 for the Super Challenge and Challenge, and just £23 for the Taster Challenge. There are 50 free places available for riders who commit to raising at least £100 in sponsorship for Bethany Christian Trust.
Bethany Christian Trust is an Edinburgh based charity that attempts to tackle the growing issue of homelessness. Every year Bethany supports around 5,000 homeless and vulnerable people across Scotland. To help us to fund our much needed services we are hosting our 7th Annual Sportive event on the 6th of June this year.
For every £30 raised, Bethany is able to provide emergency care for someone living on the streets, with a warm bed for the night and a hot, healthy and often much needed meal. Therefore, every entrant for this Sportive will help to provide care for at least one person in need.If you would like more information on the event please visit http://www.edinburghsportive.btck.co.uk or to register visit http://www.entrycentral.com/bethanysportive
Thank you so much for your support.
Kind regards,
Laurie Frank
Mr Laurie Frank
Events and Community Fundraiser
Bethany Christian Trust
65 Bonnington Road
Edinburgh EH6 5JQ
t: 0131 561 8925"
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Appreciate that this thread is more audaxy than sportivey so I'll stick up for the sportives.
Well done to those doing the Etape Caley today - I hear the weather wasn't that kind.
I'm just heading home from the Lake District where I did the Fed Whitton Challenge 112 miles, 3,900m of climbing and taking in just about every pass in the Lakes.
A very well organised event although unbelievably tough - the last 2 climbs are Hardknott & Wrynose!
Highlight for me was being towed along by a sky rider in full kit on a Pinarello who was pacing a big lad at just the pace we were after. We took his wheel for 20 odd miles :)
On the climbs I made it up Honiston without stopping but found that my max heartbeat is 8 beats higher than I'd ever done before.
I fell off on Hardknott trying to avoid a car coming down and then noticed I wasn't in my lowest gear...
Fell off again when I tried to stop but couldn't unclip. Had to walk a little bit before I recovered enough to try again.
I walked again on Wrynose for a little bit as I didn't want to fall off again. Definitely unfinished business for me...
Saw a couple of tandems doing it and a guy on a folding bike with deep rims. (Didn't get the make but is had thin mecano-esq tubing for the cross bar). There was also a chopper-esq bike at the finish with a event number on it. Assume they must have finished!
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@hankchief we are doing most of the route you describe in middle of June, but taking it easy and I think we might have a bail out around 80 miles as get quite close to the accommodation at that point.
Prompted by Fimm, what I missed out was the Lake District event hankchief has just completed is about five times as hard as the etape Caledonia. So Chapeau To Hankchief
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Well done HankChief!
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Yep, that's a big one - chapeau!
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Well ridden Hankchief, One of my colleagues was riding it. By the looks of it you crossed the line within 5 minutes of his daughter.
I rode the northern passes from Keswick last year returning over Honiston in the other direction. Whinlatter came as a pleasant break in the middle and the only descent where the traffic didn't go slower than bikes on the descents.
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Etape was tough yesterday! But I still enjoyed it (in a sadistic kind of way!) Brilliantly organised as usual with fantastic volunteers and the public who despite the weather turned out to cheer everyone on. Of note were the women who converted traffic cones into megaphones and the aged gentleman giving it some on the Bagpipes!
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Thanks guys & well done deckard112. Sportives can be an addictive drug if you're not careful...
You can start with something like Etape Caley (which felt to me like the hardest thing you can imagine when I 1st did it 2 years ago) and then you start looking for hard & harder fixes and before you know you've signed youself up for some ridiculously hard events...
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I'm having to take the heart breaking decision to abandon my 2015 PBP attempt. It's getting to the point where not having enough time to train, getting engaged, issues with my bike, cash flow and uncertainty about what I'm up to in August is actually causing me stress and that's not what cycling should be about.
Therefore I'll be trying my hardest to still audax plenty, but I'll be not putting any pressure on myself for PBP and getting my general fitness back on track.
Sometimes these things conspire against us (getting engaged being a positive thing mind!) but congrats to all those who are getting involved. Audax is a wonderful thing!
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Training?? what is this sillyness?
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I can sympathise with your woes.
Though my aspirations in audax are much more modest, I too have come up against similar issues. I'm planning on riding some calendar events this summer, and I shall be trying to enjoy them rather than letting myself get too stressed.
I'm attempting to put the fun back into my audax riding after quite a long break from it. Mind you, need to get some more miles in before next month... :-)
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@DaveC - alright mr 20 mile commute each way ;) (also multiple training rides up north, I've seen you on facebook talking about them - TRAINING)
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ARobComp, don't forget his commuting diversions ... via Perth.
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Check out exactly how many commutes I have done this year. Around one a week on average. And those rides north were hardly training, they were an undertaking in itself. No I don't train I just tide to work& back once or twice a week.
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Sorry to hear that ARobComp.
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Sorry about that ARobComp. I'm sure you'll find some compensations and we'll have to arrange some rides.
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@amir -that's been the main problem. Finding a day where I have more than a few hours spare. But yes would be great to try and get something in! Ironically work and life calendars clear up into August, but too late for that etc!
@DaveC I'd call it training if it was me doing them ;) but I guess that's my competitive streak. The rides up north looked brill tbh.
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They were brill but also brutal. It was very cold come sun down which saps the energy. Are you not riding the Southern Uplands on Saturday? Then all you have to do is get round the 600. Did you get a 300? after the Merse & Moors?
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SAturday is looking increasingly unlikely due to a family commitment that's come up (unless I can get around the SU in 10 hours :/ ) which means I'll have to find a 300 and a 400 before the 6th June... Or 2 400's. Bearing in mind I'm away or busy almost every weekend from now till then and have been away every weekend since M&M... It's getting tricky.
There is a old saying - Family, Sport, Job. Pick two.
I wonder if I'm getting hit with that at the moment!Posted 8 years ago # -
Family and Sport should be the answer!
That's tough ARC. Sorry to hear that .Hankchief - that sounded like an epic event.
Well done too to deckard112 on the Etape Cally.So who is doing PBP this year? DaveC?
I can't make it (!). May manage the 100k one in EDFOC though!
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Family, Sport, Job. Pick two
So where does cycle campaigning for in?
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@HAnkChief That all fits in whenever it can, part of the reason the job is so important right now is that it's a crucial time in the business as we seek an investment round. Otherwise I'd agree that usually I'd pick cycling and family!
Enough whinging from me mind, I'll get a dose of Rule 5 and go climb some hills.
Also hadn't noticed your Fred Whitton Challenge post - sounds brutal! Especially the offs. Any major learnings from it? Need a tinier granny ring perhaps? Got a GPX of the course lying around in case I decide this is something to try some time?
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@Hankchief Well done.
I fell off on Hardknott trying to avoid a car coming down and then noticed I wasn't in my lowest gear...
That's the main
excusereason I have for not attempting Hardknott and Wrynose - the last thing I want on a steep climb is a car either in my way or on my wheel. I'm (reasonably) confident I could get up them if I had the whole width of the road available to me, but sod's law says there will be a car occupying the space I desperately need to use to avoid the 40+% of the inside of the corner...Oh, and it's Honister, not Honiston. ;-) That and Newlands are on my list of "worth doing". My brother has managed Honister and he must be 3 stone heavier than me. He broke his chain on Newlands, which may have had something to do with those extra 3 stone...
@ARobComp There's a GPX link here.
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Finished!! well very nearly, just a small 600km (7677m climbing) to do for this years SR (Ruper Randonneur) Audax series. I rode 3 less hours this year, but made the run in the same over all time, more faffing/eating!
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Well done! Great stuff. The wind looked like it would have been a bit tough!
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@DaveC You are a sick man, doing this for pleasure - well done!
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