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The Adventure Show Audax

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  1. DaveC
    Member

    The problem with the ferries is they are not counted as miles ridden. The 1302km is road distance not including ferry journeys, as my gps route is well over 1370km. The ferries slowed you also having to wait for them and then the journy time on the ferry as I said just now.

    That said the ferries were good as they force the riders to regroup and socialise/chat. The first ferry did put us nearly out of time at the first control, but we arrived before the control closed so were able to obtain bank receipts when we arrived, and we were only forced to wait until the control had closed before we could leave Oban by the ferry schedule.
    That race for the early ferry was hard between Kilchoan and Mallaig but it was a great felling making it, and that was bad in some respects as I then felt I had 2 hours on the other riders and could plod up to Broadford as a slower pace, having already recovered on the ferry. If I'd stayed with the first group, then I may have finished earlier and been able to get to my overnight stops before the next morning.

    Posted 9 years ago #

  2. paddyirish
    Member

    Cheers Dave, Still think you're bonkers :-).

    And those Midgies would have driven me to distraction...

    Posted 9 years ago #

  3. DaveC
    Member

    The trick with midges is NOT TO STOP! Thats Audax all over... ;o)

    Posted 9 years ago #

  4. Beano
    Member

    recorded it and watched it last night. Take my hat off to you DaveC and all the others. I love trying to push my body to the limit so maybe a few more years cycling and i'll try something mad like this.

    oddly...i'd decided to watch it from being on this forum but also saw a guy (young Scottish 20-ish year old who had been Audaxing with his parents for years called Stuart Allan) and i'd been at a friends wedding in October and got chatting to a random guest at the table about cycling, as you do, and it was him! I could tell he was a keen cyclist then...didn't know he was mad too...

    Posted 9 years ago #

  5. DaveC
    Member

    Stuart is a great guy! We rode off the ferry at Kilchoan to Malaig. It was a sprint to get the early ferry - as they said in the show. I was hoping Stuart would make it but I was determined to make that early ferry and Stuart dropped of the back and never caught up with me. :O(

    If Audax takes your fancy there are shorter rides open to people who don't fancy tackling an Ultra. They start at 50km and go up 100, 160, 200, 300.....

    See the Audax calender and narrow the search to Scotland and distances under 200.

    http://www.aukweb.net/events/?From=10%2F12%2F2014&To=12&Days=&Category=&Dist_min=&Dist_max=200&Aaa=&Region=scotland

    Posted 9 years ago #

  6. panyagua
    Member

    Great programme showing Scotland at its best. Don't know how I'd have coped with the sleep deprivation, but the midges would definitely have finished me off. Chapeau to all who completed the ride. Dave will be telling his grandchildren about it!

    Posted 9 years ago #

  7. acsimpson
    Member

    Really enjoyed the program. Highly impressed by the guys who completed it (Or even entered it).

    I commented to Mrs acsimpson that it would make quite a nice fortnight's holiday. She said she'd let me ride with my Dad and carry the bags in the car.

    Posted 9 years ago #

  8. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    Simply magnificent. Put me in mind of the original continental bike races before all the razamafaff. Proper adventure and obviously nice people doing it.

    Posted 9 years ago #

  9. algo
    Member

    Well done DaveC - I really enjoyed that. Particularly impressive sprint for the ferry, and managing to complete it with a spoke missing! Heroic indeed.

    Posted 9 years ago #

  10. DrAfternoon
    Member

    It was very good. There were a few glimpses of me. My main riding partner, Mike Henley is in it more, in bright yellow top, and getting interviewed arriving at Trantlebeg. I got in there about 2am at the end of day three, which was by far the toughest day of cycling I've ever done.

    What you don't get in the film is that folk were getting to Durness after 8pm, exhausted and hungry, with still another 100k to go for that day, and big climbs. That was the toughest bit mentally. And it felt properly cold in the dark after being boiling hot all day. I was crawling the last bit to Trantlebeg. But then 7am day 4, after maybe 3 hours sleep and some porridge, it was all glorious again. Amazing how little you really need to recover.

    It was 37 started and 25 finished I believe. I don't know much of why folk packed. Some of them did most of the ride but chopped off the top bit when they were just too knackered and short of time.

    There was one chap finished who'd just done over 400 miles on a 24 hour time trial a day before starting! All remarkable and thoroughly decent folk.

    Worst part was coming back into the world of wretched drivers after coming back down from the northern wilds to Dingwall and places.

    Posted 9 years ago #

  11. Darkerside
    Member

    Greatly enjoyed watching that—hats off!

    Guffawed at not waving/drowning.

    Made me very thankful for the home comforts provided during LEL (including by those willing volunteers of this parish...)

    Posted 9 years ago #

  12. recombodna
    Member

    Crampton you are a beast!!!! That is all! ;-)

    Posted 9 years ago #

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