andy from embsay
New Member
What a good day! Brilliant organisation, good route, wonderful volunteers and marshals - and cheese butties at food stops!
Fooled ourselves, despite the warnings, that the second half would be easy peasy after hartside, but found it tough. And do they really have to make the border with Scotland a deep dark river valley that you have to ride down, down, down into then all the way back up again - then do it again on the way back?
Happy enough with 6:46 total, 6:32 moving time and an average speed of 16.5mph - would probably have been faster if i'd managed to hang on to the back of one of the groups that shot past me in the last 30 miles!
Terrific day - well done to all involved.
Fooled ourselves, despite the warnings, that the second half would be easy peasy after hartside, but found it tough. And do they really have to make the border with Scotland a deep dark river valley that you have to ride down, down, down into then all the way back up again - then do it again on the way back?
Happy enough with 6:46 total, 6:32 moving time and an average speed of 16.5mph - would probably have been faster if i'd managed to hang on to the back of one of the groups that shot past me in the last 30 miles!
Terrific day - well done to all involved.