This is one on our doorstop- a 1065 mile adventure race starting and finishing in Edinburgh
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Audaxes + sportives 2019
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Posted 6 years ago #
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Blimey £235 to enter a race which is self supported and gives you little more than a tracker?
Do you get to keep the tracker afterwards?
Posted 6 years ago # -
I assume you are paying for silk road mountain race/ transcontinental race-style [social] media coverage and friendly faces at checkpoints etc.
(you also have to pay for the ferries, I think?)
Posted 6 years ago # -
"The Long Dark Teatime of an Audax Soul" 200km, Saturday 3rd November.
I'm in - any other CCEers?
Posted 6 years ago # -
Had hoped to, having enjoyed the shorter version last year, but it unfortunately clashes with WalkCycleVote's consultation workshop.
Posted 6 years ago # -
Bump. Still pondering whether to do the Long Dark Teatime - forecast for Saturday is somewhat grim, and I've had a very busy and toring week. @amir, @cyclingmollie or others - anyone planning to ride it?
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I've signed up but will decide nearer the time. A bit less grim might get me over the start line. The good thing about the route is that you can always cut it short eg Eskdalemuir
Posted 6 years ago # -
@amir
Yes, I'm hoping for a bit less grim. Good point about the curtailing options - the return journey should be a lot easier given the forecast wind. Will keep an eye on it and decide tomorrow evening...
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I'm keeping a check on the weather as well. Currently "wet and very windy". Might be a good excuse to extend my easy month into November.
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Weather forecast isn't looking any better so I'm not going.
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A friend and I set out to do Home In Time for Tea, not overly loving the gusting wind, rain and chill notes in the air but we were willing to give it a shot having got the day off from domestic stuffs. By the time we reached Ettrickbridge my friend suggested abandoning as while she thought the ride to Eskdalemuir was doable the tank might not be over full for the return. A wall of low cloud and dark clouds up the valley sealed the deal.
Like any good cyclists we duly availed ourselves of a local coffee morning who kindly stopped packing up to take in two bedraggled loons in Lycra. The collective advice of the various ladies running the coffee morning was that the weather would be rotten up the valley but a run by Bowhill and thence back to Gala would be nice. Which is what we did, with soup at Philiphaugh. Only 25 miles covered in the end, but it still felt like an adventure all the same.
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“it still felt like an adventure all the same”
Clearly was!
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This, from another participant, gives a flavour of what you (we) missed:
"...all I could really see in my front light was water, either wheel spray, falling from the sky or both.
Somewhere before Ettrick Bridge I became aware that my wheels had sunk into the road surface and my feet were also going through it, I ascertained that I was now riding in the river but the edge marking reflector bollards confirmed there was tarmac down there somewhere, despite my feet dissappreing under the water the depth only became apparent when an oncoming 4x4 gingerly making its way through the flood gave me a good lighting to see that my hub was also in the water, dynamo failure was added to my list of concerns... I also got a pretty good view of the 4x4s bow wave as it washed over my crotch, I didn't notice any change to how wet I was following this." (Fifeing Eejit on Strava).Posted 6 years ago # -
Nicer today, we did five counties round the pentlands and received a sermon from the manager of the red barn about arriving in numbers (12) at opening time without announcing this first.
Worried we would eat all the cakes and there would be none left for others later in the day. Very nice bake well tart. Two hours to get there over the moor road to west Linton which was very very long today into the headwind. 90 minutes back as turning at Kaimend took us out of the wind.
Nice new Tarmac just after Romano bridge
Posted 6 years ago # -
Nice new Tarmac just after Romano bridge
Is that the bit that runs past the end of the Lyne Water valley road? If so, it was about time.
Posted 6 years ago # -
+1
It was a terrible surface
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As part compensation for not doing thd LDTS, I went on a solo ramble through the borders. Granites to Innerleithen with strong funnelled headwind. New cycle path (excellent) to Walkerburn then onto Galashiels. From then a new climb for me by Buckholm then over to Lauder and then back over to Stow up the coach Road and over the Granites again. Nice route, lots of climbing. Plenty of cafe pops but sadly took none.
Posted 6 years ago # -
YEs @cyclingmollie and amir, it need it fo' shu'
Posted 6 years ago # -
anyone fancy any of:
Musselburgh RCC Tour of East Lothian / 106km / 17th Feb 19
Scottish Borders Populaire / 145km / 16th March 19
Moffat Toffee / 204km / 30th Marchsuspect my participation will be weather dependent.
Posted 6 years ago # -
I'm in for the longer SB Randonee plus the Moffat Toffee. Not sure yet about the ToEL (I never am).
Posted 6 years ago # -
My Brevet 25000 is now tantalisingly close. Only 600km to go if I do them in Audax style before mid-March. Some long hard cold DIYs beckon!
I'm a likely for the Scottish Borders. It's a great ride. Recommend ice cream in Melrose. I extended ToEL to a 200km last year, with the extra 100km up front, looping out to Carnwath and back bright and early. Redstone Rigg with an extra 100km in your legs amongst all those who are fresh was rotten.
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Ice cream in March - madness!
Good luck with your Brevet 25 how many noughts? Let me know if you need company (however poor).Posted 6 years ago # -
I'm in for SB Randonnee as well; it will be my first calendar event. Not my first audax, as I've got a pass out for tomorrow, and with the mild weather I'm going to have a go at the 100km Trossachs permanent.
If anyone fancies joining at short notice I'd love to have some company - I'm taking the train from Haymarket to Bridge of Allan at about 0730 to arrive at about the same time as the daylight does. The organiser was very accommodating of my short notice entry, and made it PayPal enabled for me too.
Posted 5 years ago # -
@jsh, good luck with the Trossachs ride: that was my first perm. Lovely ride, but watch out for speeding drivers on the A84 stretch north of Callander - bit of a race track atmosphere at times.
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Thanks for the heads up crowriver.
I’ll probably avoid the main roads where possible, and be on NCN7 there, the 100km time limit is forgiving of that. A bit more rain than I was hoping for, but it looks like the temperature should be mild and not too much wind, so 2 out of 3 is no bad for January.
Leftover haggis from last night and a couple of eggs have made a good roll to start the ride off with too!
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My brother and I are riding the Scottish Borders Randonnee starting from Selkirk on Saturday. Apparently it may snow. I’ll be heading down from Edinburgh by car so if anyone else is going and would like a lift, I have two spaces available for people in the car, and two for bikes on the roof. A winning combination, no plans to experiment with swapping the locations.
Let me know.Posted 5 years ago # -
See you there (if the forecast doesn't get worse)
Posted 5 years ago # -
Looking like a departure from Selkirk in heavy snow, heavy rain on arrival at Moffat , heavy rain at Peebles and Melrose with wind veering from E to W over the day. I think it should be fine if we can get out of Selkirk OK..small tailwind to Moffat
Posted 5 years ago # -
Just been cancelled per Orgs' email.
Posted 5 years ago # -
The weather forecast is looking abysmal.
The organiser is allowing those signed up to do it on a day of their choice in the next monthPosted 5 years ago #
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