Dragon Ride - Got out of jail

[adrian]

How do we establish our placings in the general scheme of things? On the Raceahead site, you can only view 500 names at a time, and it gives the impression that exactly 1,000 people rode each long route, unless I'm reading it wrong. For some reason I can't use Excel at work (prob cos I don't do the math ), which would make things a lot easier. Has anyone figured this out yet?

[Graham O]

[quote="huw williams"]

39 Sylvain Garde 02:12:13 06:36:55
51 Hal Bransby 02:23:38 06:41:41
75 Matthew Day 02:19:22 06:50:11
20 Huw Williams 02:23:44 06:52:55
84 Richard Appleton 02:16:47 06:52:56
110 Ben Jones 02:20:19 07:03:40
182 Christopher Kay 02:29:37 07:26:27
1381 Graham Oliver 02:30:54 07:30:37
226 Adrian Ashworth 02:30:22 07:39:22
248 Mike Ingram 02:30:21 07:43:58
249 Grant Barnes 02:26:38 07:44:00
275 Phili Lambert 02:36:40 07:54:16
489 Matthew Burns 03:11:44 10:26:16

[huw williams]

First lot of pictures are up... more to follow

http://www.philoconnor.com/dragon2007/front.htm

[Steve W]

Here are all the results.

I put them all into excel and Sylvain came out 75th

The results however only list 1523 riders which doesn't seem right?


Grand Fondo 200k

39 Sylvain Garde 02:12:13 06:36:55
51 Hal Bransby 02:23:38 06:41:41
75 Matthew Day 02:19:22 06:50:11
20 Huw Williams 02:23:44 06:52:55
84 Richard Appleton 02:16:47 06:52:56
110 Ben Jones 02:20:19 07:03:40
182 Christopher Kay 02:29:37 07:26:27
1381 Graham Oliver 02:30:54 07:30:37
226 Adrian Ashworth 02:30:22 07:39:22
248 Mike Ingram 02:30:21 07:43:58
249 Grant Barnes 02:26:38 07:44:00
275 Phili Lambert 02:36:40 07:54:16
489 Matthew Burns 03:11:44 10:26:16


Medio Fondo 135k

1205 Philippe Belvir 02:56:31 06:17:32 S
563 Conor Cormican 02:51:26 06:05:56 S
851 Mark Leedham 03:06:19 06:44:48 S
1203 Andy Spriggs 02:38:07 05:23:39 S
1405 Steve Wakley 02:51:56 05:45:56 S (Definately coming back for the big one.)

[Maria David]

I've put mine in :

Grand Fondo 200k

39 Sylvain Garde 02:12:13 06:36:55
51 Hal Bransby 02:23:38 06:41:41
75 Matthew Day 02:19:22 06:50:11
20 Huw Williams 02:23:44 06:52:55
84 Richard Appleton 02:16:47 06:52:56
110 Ben Jones 02:20:19 07:03:40
182 Christopher Kay 02:29:37 07:26:27
1381 Graham Oliver 02:30:54 07:30:37
226 Adrian Ashworth 02:30:22 07:39:22
248 Mike Ingram 02:30:21 07:43:58
249 Grant Barnes 02:26:38 07:44:00
275 Phili Lambert 02:36:40 07:54:16
489 Matthew Burns 03:11:44 10:26:16


Medio Fondo 135k

1205 Philippe Belvir 02:56:31 06:17:32 S
563 Conor Cormican 02:51:26 06:05:56 S
851 Mark Leedham 03:06:19 06:44:48 S
1203 Andy Spriggs 02:38:07 05:23:39 S
1405 Steve Wakley 02:51:56 05:45:56 S (Definately coming back for the big one.)
226 Maria David 02:43:54 05:35:48 (2nd claim)

I was 9th out of 41 women in the short course so can't complain

Maria
http://2wheelchick.blogspot.com/

[Phil L]

I have put together a spreadsheet (Excel 2003) with all of the results - feel free to download it from [url=http://www.the-lamberts.co.uk/cycling/dragon_ride_2007.xls]here[/url]. Let me know of any more ACC members.

[Dombo]

Posted mine:
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 2:08 pm Post subject:

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I've put mine in :

Grand Fondo 200k

39 Sylvain Garde 02:12:13 06:36:55
51 Hal Bransby 02:23:38 06:41:41
75 Matthew Day 02:19:22 06:50:11
20 Huw Williams 02:23:44 06:52:55
84 Richard Appleton 02:16:47 06:52:56
110 Ben Jones 02:20:19 07:03:40
182 Christopher Kay 02:29:37 07:26:27
1381 Graham Oliver 02:30:54 07:30:37
226 Adrian Ashworth 02:30:22 07:39:22
248 Mike Ingram 02:30:21 07:43:58
249 Grant Barnes 02:26:38 07:44:00
275 Phili Lambert 02:36:40 07:54:16
489 Matthew Burns 03:11:44 10:26:16


Medio Fondo 135k

1205 Philippe Belvir 02:56:31 06:17:32 S
563 Conor Cormican 02:51:26 06:05:56 S
851 Mark Leedham 03:06:19 06:44:48 S
1203 Andy Spriggs 02:38:07 05:23:39 S
1405 Steve Wakley 02:51:56 05:45:56 S (Definately coming back for the big one.)
226 Maria David 02:43:54 05:35:48 (2nd claim)
773 Dominic Barnes 02:48:08 05:48:30

Bwlch - the sound you make as you barf up a warm, sweat-seasoned ham sarny at the top of Rhigos.

[Dombo]

Gentlemen's Dragon - great ride.

Weather cleared at the off, fast ride to Port Talbot in a bunch with a couple of Agreeables - sorry don't know the names - then lost them as the road kicked up under M4 for the first climb.
Nice and steady towards Afan, Cimmer, Glyncorrwg (fantastic mtb centre btw), amazed at the speed some were going this early on the first climb.

Caught and passed a fair few riders but gave them all back when I stopped for a banana and water refill at the base of Bwlch. Re-caught some on the steady climb, spinning in the middle ring and glad of the psychological boost of having a triple. Fast descent before Rhigos climb, then Neath and a ridiculous climb out of that town. Decision time at the 40 mile mark, right to SAS Selection country or left. Chose left, and a nice fast run back down the valley, amazed at being caught by a fair few riders I'd dropped on Rhigos.

Second climb of Bwlch less pleasant and a lot slower. No banter and lower gears, spinning up it in the granny ring, HR 160 but still passing a fair few. Quick grimace for photographer at the top, and I'm passed by two ladies, chatting away, barely noticing the gradient. I change up, out the saddle and give chase, hoping to catch a tow. Ha! Fat chance. One of them was Vlaanderen pro rider Emma Davies-Jones whom I naturally never saw again.

Fast descent back down the valley, dodging sheep, and on to Bridgend, with the worse climb of the day a little ramp over a common 3 miles from the end. An absolute killer.

Rolled over the final mat to a welcome bleep, a round of applause and a goody bag.

Oh joy. Blueberry Go Gel, my favourite.

[Sylv]

Some of the 200kmers first (I don't know how to link to the bigger images!)


[img]http://www.pictureselect.com/photos/POCPCP44/POCEV157/0047-dragon-10.jpg[/img] [img]http://www.pictureselect.com/photos/POCPCP44/POCEV152/0543-dragon-12.jpg[/img] [img]http://www.pictureselect.com/photos/POCPCP44/POCEV147/1096-dragon-10.jpg[/img] [img]http://www.pictureselect.com/photos/POCPCP44/POCEV145/1281-dragon-12.jpg[/img] [img]http://www.pictureselect.com/photos/POCPCP44/POCEV144/1381-dragon-11.jpg[/img] [img]http://www.pictureselect.com/photos/POCPCP44/POCEV137/2073-dragon-10.jpg[/img] [img]http://www.pictureselect.com/photos/POCPCP44/POCEV137/2019-dragon-11.jpg[/img] [img]http://www.pictureselect.com/photos/POCPCP44/POCEV135/2260-dragon-11.jpg[/img]

[adrian]

At the risk of being accused of self-promotion...

[img]http://www.pictureselect.com/photos/POCPCP44/POCEV148/0954-dragon-20.jpg[/img]

Not that you can see me, with Mike sprinting by to grab the limelight

[mark mclaughlin]

Seemed to have lost my report when trying to upload??
Split time 2.25.03 = 7.14.58 no idea of position
Cheers

[Brian Nolan]

Hey - great rides you all done and some excellent write ups !

i would have been there with you but had to duck out as I was going on holiday on the monday ...

to all the official & unofficial Etape'rs - i hope you have a great day out !

cheers ,
Brian .

[Toks]

Grab ya'self a coffee. Here's another chance for you[url=http://mikesimagination.wordpress.com/dragon-days-a-dragon-ride-diary/]Dragonites[/url] to relive the big day

[adrian]

I've only just finished the Greg LeMond article. Are you trying to get me sacked?

[Toks]

[quote="adrian"]I've only just finished the Greg LeMond article. Are you trying to get me sacked?