leyton condor
Veteran
- Location
- London
No Steve, I am sorry for not waiting for you guy's to arrive, we went to the beach ate our remaining rations and fell asleep. We should have waited but we were not thinking rationally. My apologies.I am so sorry to both Srocha and Leyton Condor’s groups for letting them down with the promised food
Our group started off just after 8 and had a pretty good run, we made it a lot quicker than last year mainly by having enough food with us so we did not end up massively hungry in the early hours or having to queue at the halfway stop. We also got a bit of help from the Dulwich paragon by tagging along in their slipstream for a while, those folk sure do travel. The boys on the bromptons werre also pretty impressive speed wise.
We missed the halfway stop by a mile or so before realising and turned around for a well deserved rest and some food . We left at the same time as the Dulwich blue train, followed them for a while which resulted in losing two from our group. Sitting at the junction of the B1115 and the B1078 we were amazed how many people were asking if they had passed the food stop yet.
We then stopped at the 90ish mile mark at the house selling bacon rolls and tea for a nice cuppa which set us up for the last quarter and rolled into Dunwich just after 6.
All in all a very enjoyable night of cycling, top tips for next year would be more sandwiches and no energy gels (yuck) and maybe a bigger saddlebag so I could get a towel in for the beach.
We took the coach and lorry option back to London which was hassle free (apart from losing a bit of mudguard) and cheap as chips @ £14
Roll on 2011, see you then.