by Graham O » Mon Feb 13, 2006 10:54 am
I went along yesterday and did the 100K ride. I did rain all day. Of particular mention was being sprayed in the face with dung..Great..
Once you got used to the rain, It was OK though. I managed to stay with the fast guys for the first 20 miles or so, then decided that I had to finish, so joined a couple of guys and tried to cruise for the rest of the ride. Unfortunately, they were dropping like flies, so I had to ride quite a bit on my own.
The route meandered down to Ashdown forest and came back up through edenbridge and over toys hill (hardest hilll I have done in a long time), and then to cap it all, we had to come back up stars hill. By this point I was really seeing stars..
Did the whole thing in a little under 4 hours. Think I did about 80 miles in the end, and was reasonably strong on the run back to my house.
All good fun though, and ashdown is a great place. Toys hill from the south is bleed'in horrible though.
Ta
Graham.