Ride of the falling leaves tomorrow anyone doing it?

[kieran]

Anyone doing this tomorrow? I've already paid up so will be doing it unless it snows, planning to start around 9amish, will there be anyone else there from the club?

[John Cochrane]

Sorry Kieran, I have only just read your posting. I went in for this on Sunday. Just missed out on a Gold award. My own fault, I missed the check point at Westerham (one of my senior moments, not as young as I used to be) and only realised some miles further on. Had to turn back to Westerham and lost quite a bit of time, not to mention the extra mileage to cover.

The route was much more hilly than I had expected but at least they cut out the worst bit of Toys Hill.

How did you get on?

[kieran]

hi John, I did it in 4 hours 20 min so also missed gold, I think I didn't eat enough in the first 3 hours and ran out of energy near the end, I crawled up the last few hills in bottom gear (got a triple as well). Seemed worse than last year.