Sunday 30th, Brighton anyone?

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Sunday 30th, Brighton anyone?

Postby -Adam- » Wed Mar 26, 2008 7:25 pm

Thinking about doing a Brighton run on Sunday.

As in a 10 days time I'll be sitting in a bar in Bruges, half pissed, and half bricking it about De Ronde van Vlaaderen.

Thats right, it'll likely be more than 9 hours in the saddle for the 259km. My pack came this morning, I'm number 6186, easily my largest event number to date! Now I havn't ridden more than 80 miles so far this year, so this ride needs to knock me into shape in one day!

So, not just any old ride, but a bit of a detour on the return leg. I want to see 200km on my powertap by the time I roll back into Epsom.

I'm thinking head down to ditchling, up and over, fly down into Brighton, see the sea and grab a bite to eat.

Then back up ditchling and head more east through Kent back up towards Tunbridge Wells, Sevenoaks... that sort of way...

The pace will be very sensible as I am racing the Addiscombe promotion on Saturday, so around the 18av mark.

Thinking of an 8'o'clock meet at CSS. Which for those of you who know me is rather early for myself to even be out of bed, let alone on a bike. But I have been up at 6.30am each of the last 3 Sundays so wouldn't it be a shame to break the chain.

So, who's interested???
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Re: Sunday 30th, Brighton anyone?

Postby George » Wed Mar 26, 2008 7:32 pm

I'm up for this one Adam
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Re: Sunday 30th, Brighton anyone?

Postby Stu Merckx Man » Wed Mar 26, 2008 11:09 pm

yeh definitely. i want to be left crawling half dead when i get home from this!
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Re: Sunday 30th, Brighton anyone?

Postby -Adam- » Wed Mar 26, 2008 11:17 pm

[quote="Stu Merckx Man"]yeh definitely. i want to be left crawling half dead when i get home from this!


Yes but crawling half dead because of the distance my friend, not because of the speed!!
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Re: Sunday 30th, Brighton anyone?

Postby George » Wed Mar 26, 2008 11:59 pm

[quote]yeh definitely. i want to be left crawling half dead when i get home from this!
Hopefully not just after you've fallen off again :lol:
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Re: Sunday 30th, Brighton anyone?

Postby Ivor » Thu Mar 27, 2008 10:16 am

[quote="George"]Hopefully not just after you've fallen off again :lol:

I think the preferred manly term is "crashed" rather than "fallen off" for those of us practised in the art. :?
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Re: Sunday 30th, Brighton anyone?

Postby Stu Merckx Man » Thu Mar 27, 2008 10:57 am

crashed makes it sound like an accident... i usually just fall off :lol:
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Re: Sunday 30th, Brighton anyone?

Postby mrP(Boonen)VT » Thu Mar 27, 2008 11:49 am

I was thinking of this anyway and an early start is ideal. It will have to be a sensible pace though otherwise I won't make it.

Fairly straight down there, but I'll bring you back a long way round - want to try out a new route....... :P
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Re: Sunday 30th, Brighton anyone?

Postby Andrew G » Thu Mar 27, 2008 12:25 pm

Fingers crossed that...

a) I can make this.
b) I can get to CSS in time - If I'm not there I'll still be in bed. If it's raining I'll stay in and hope for a clear window to get out later.
c) I can keep up, should be okay so long as you don't get carried away - If I can't then you clearly didn't try hard enough in the race :) .

Not bothered if you all want to go mad and have a tear up on the way back, I'll just carry on and make my own way back.

CBC with Adam, George, Stu, and PVT - should be an easy ride :shock: .
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Re: Sunday 30th, Brighton anyone?

Postby Ben » Thu Mar 27, 2008 1:13 pm

Should be there as well, anyone going to go into the sea this time
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Re: Sunday 30th, Brighton anyone?

Postby EdO » Thu Mar 27, 2008 2:22 pm

I should be around for this.
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Re: Sunday 30th, Brighton anyone?

Postby adrian » Thu Mar 27, 2008 2:33 pm

Good shout, Adam - would love to come along but am away this weekend. All in all, it's turned out to be a bad weekend to be away :(
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Re: Sunday 30th, Brighton anyone?

Postby Daniel Gee » Thu Mar 27, 2008 3:08 pm

Straight to CSS from the pub?

Perhaps Marco has some advice. :lol:
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Re: Sunday 30th, Brighton anyone?

Postby Ben » Thu Mar 27, 2008 3:56 pm

Clocks go forward as well
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Re: Sunday 30th, Brighton anyone?

Postby -Adam- » Thu Mar 27, 2008 6:04 pm

Did I say it was going to be easy!?
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