Dun Run lite - Friday, 3 Oct

[User10571]

Diss has a Morrisons if you need to replenish. There is nowhere, and I mean literally nowhere between Dunwich and the 26 miles to Diss to spend any money.
I don't recall there being any comestibles available between Dunwich and Darsham.

 

[StuAff]

Diss has a Morrisons if you need to replenish. There is nowhere, and I mean literally nowhere between Dunwich and the 26 miles to Diss to spend any money.
I don't recall there being any comestibles available between Dunwich and Darsham.

Also a Co-op (used it after the DD last year).
Diss is (AFAIK) definitely the best option for trains back. Further up the line than Ipswich or Stowmarket, nearer than Ipswich slightly. Darsham= tiny trains, infrequent service, nothing there.

 

[Andrew Br]

I have tickets .
Arrive Euston 22.13.
Ride a long way, have a great time and then.
Depart Euston 18.20.
They only cost me £11.50 'cos I had a voucher.
A voucher for a delay that happened when I wasn't travelling.
I'm not sure what that was about.
Still, mustn't grumble.

I have to book a Diss->London Village ticket.

As an experiment, I'm going to try Hackney-Dunwich-Diss as a DIY audax by GPS.
I'm not going to stress about whether I do it in time because I'd prefer to "go with the flow" and enjoy it*,
I just want to try it as an experiment in case I want to do something similar in future.
Sadly, I won't be able to draught/draft any of you although I will be able to tow.

Two questions (maybe three if you didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition):-

• Is anyone riding from Euston area to Hackney at ~22.15 and would be prepared to show a country boy the way ?
• Who is riding to Diss and what time are you getting a train ?**

* If you've read any of my whinges on YACF, you'll know that I don't, usually, enjoy audax.
** I should work this out for myself since it would be part of either my audax experience or getting back to Euston in time to go home.

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[saoirse50]

I quite fancy this.....getting back could involve a small tent and a few ferries for me again (that's my favourite DunRun return route). Although the Diss one can be quite a laugh too, especially when you ride with Andrij and spend so much time socialising/sleeping on the beach, you leave yourself only barely enough time to get there and a massive headwind rocks up.

 

[mmmmartin]

As an experiment, I'm going to try Hackney-Dunwich-Diss as a DIY audax by GPS

I've thought about doing that on other rides but, certainly on FNRttC events, there is a fair bit of hanging around that would take you out of time. You might want to think about having the nav completely nailed so if you need to press on to do 200k in the right time, you can go alone.

 

[redfalo]

Two questions (maybe three if you didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition):-

• Is anyone riding from Euston area to Hackney at ~22.15 and would be prepared to show a country boy the way ?
• Who is riding to Diss and what time are you getting a train ?

Great stuff. I'm more than happy to form a welcoming committee at Euston, and guide you to Hipster Home aka Hackney.

As for the train back, I think the 14:47 train into Euston sounds plausible. I may even splash out on a 1st class ticket, which is 14 pounds rather than 9 pounds. With an overall average of 10 miles an hour, we should be in Diss by 14:30; and I 'd expect us to arrive earlier. Apparently, there are three pubs within a 0.6 mile radius of the train station.

I was toying with the DIY Audax idea as well. Actually, I even had a thought along the following lines: "I've done a 300k in July. If I manage to get through the 600k in September (a big if) and if I'd actually do the Venetian Night thingy (another big if, possibly involving a martial crisis), all I need for a SR is a 400k....." But I quickly ditchted that thought, as it became clear to me that leading the Dun Run lite while being pressed for time on a much longer adventure would not be the best idea.

However, aiming for a 14:30 arrival at Diss (235 or so k from Hackney) would be well within the 200k Audax time limit, and still in line with the usual FNRttC pace. I then could avoid a martial crisis and would "only" need another 400k for the SR...

 

[redfalo]

This is war?

I do hope not.

 

[Andrew Br]

Great stuff. I'm more than happy to form a welcoming committee at Euston, and guide you to Hipster Home aka Hackney.

Great stuff.
If you're doing a DIY as well, we can draft each other .
I'll use this week to cobble a route together on gpsies.com and send it to you.
Hackney-Dunwich-Diss ?

Celebratory beers at Euston afterwards ?

Just to repeat, if I finish out of time, it's no big deal.

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[redfalo]

Great stuff.
If you're doing a DIY as well, we can draft each other .
I'll use this week to cobble a route together on gpsies.com and send it to you.
Hackney-Dunwich-Diss ?

Celebratory beers at Euston afterwards ?

Just to repeat, if I finish out of time, it's no big deal.

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This will be our route from Hackney to Dunwich: http://www.gpsies.com/map.do?fileId=bwfyrufyyufinber

Celebratory beers at Euston will be mandatory.

 

[StuAff]

And looking at the dramatis personae for this ride it's likely to be a fast group.

I'm sure I speak for all representatives of Teams Less Slow, Even Less Slow and Not Slow At All when I say that we will be all at the domestique service of Team Less Fast.

 

[redfalo]

Adrian has beaten me to it about numbers of bikes on the train . But I'd also add that after riding 122 miles or so to Southwold, and then another 8 or 9 to the station, I was pretty exhausted. There's no way I could have contemplated another 30 miles at the end of the day.
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Well, there would have been no need for you going another 30 miles either. You've ridden 131 miles this weekend from HPC to Southwold and then on to Darsham. Hackney to Dunwich is 112 miles (http://www.gpsies.com/map.do?fileId=bwfyrufyyufinber), plus 30 miles (a tad less, actually) to Diss. So the additional milage is just 11 miles.

 

[redfalo]

Would you awfully mind if I asked you to delete this before TMN reads it? I took the wrong road out of Southwold and we went to Halesworth which was more than that.

it's all covered up now

 

[GrumpyGregry]

I'm sure I speak for all representatives of Teams Less Slow, Even Less Slow and Not Slow At All when I say that we will be all at the domestique service of Team Less Fast.

I was hoping to join Team So Slow Staying Upright Is A Challenge.

 

[Flying Dodo]

2 tickets now booked via Darsham to London for a total of £11.90 (using a Two Together railcard), including bike spaces from Ipswich.

 

[mmmmartin]

I didn't

Would you awfully mind if I asked you to delete this before TMN reads it? I took the wrong road out of Southwold and we went to Halesworth which was more than that.

I never read what it was that I was not supposed to read, at all. oh no. Me? I wasn't even there. Or near. Anywhere near. At all.