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theloafer
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- newton aycliffe
31,000ft climbing? Pffft: according to Strava, mine went up 61,000ft 🤪
Mine hit 1,089 miles, but that did go via Leicester, then on to Marsden (a hilly Yorkshire Dales route), Lockerbie, then a beautiful 82-miles over the Borders to Edinburgh before ambling up via the Crask Inn.
Great fun!
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Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
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- Inside my skull
Fairly typical climb ratio. Outside of hilly areas , and flat areas it is typically 50-60ft per mile in most areas of country. So your figures are bang on in that average.
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
A friend of mine did it recently, it was 1,776km/1,104 mi. 14,307m ascent. 15 days.
Route was roughly: LE, Bristol, Rugby, Nottingham, York, Tyneside, Berwick u Tweed, Edinburgh, Callander, Inverness, JOG
Route was roughly: LE, Bristol, Rugby, Nottingham, York, Tyneside, Berwick u Tweed, Edinburgh, Callander, Inverness, JOG
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AlanW
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- Not to sure?
940 miles and 51,213' of climbing in eight days - https://www.strava.com/activities/703930618
OldShep
Veteran
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- South West Scotland
There’s an extra 20 miles slipped in there?
AlanW
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Ha ha...your right, 920 miles unless you want me to go and add the extra miles on
nickyboy
Norven Mankey
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- You want hills? We got hills
Doing Strines on a LEJOG is pretty hardcore
AlanW
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And l recall very clearly that it pissed it down for most of the day to!
Which was a real shame, the first three days we had wall to wall sunshine and a lovely tail wind.
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
My mate also had astonishingly good weather. We got caught by a brief heavy shower near Bristol when I was riding with him, and his (short) last day was rainy. Apart from that, sunny all the way.
Tribansman
Veteran
But, but....you did yours in the FUTURE?!
What state were the roads in, and was JOG nearly under water?
Actually...your route and mileage was very similar to mine, I did 1070. I was incredibly lucky with the weather...in April! Apart from one afternoon of rain the rest of the 14 days were dry and mostly sunny. Got a pretty deep tan and lost about 5kg. One of my most vivid memories of the whole trip was watching the news in a B&B in Dumfries showing the statue of Saddam Hussein being pulled down! Oh, and being refused accommodation on the first night in Cornwall as the snooty guy that ran the place said I looked like I was shifty and maybe 'on the run' from something 🤣 (wouldn't believe I would be doing LEJOG on my own
). He probably just didn't want a sweaty cyclist soiling his sheets. I was pretty out of shape and bedraggled when I started, but what a bizzare thing to come out with. Was only 20 at the time and not particularly assertive, so meekly cycled on to the next village where thankfully I got a proper welcome and a cream tea thrown in!Was back in 2003 so no smartphone and no GPS device. Navigation was a challenge but somehow worked - highlighter on torn out pages of a large road atlas and followed signposts. Did it mostly on B and minor roads too. Got to say, much prefer the reassurance of my Wahoo!
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But, but....you did yours in the FUTURE?!
What state were the roads in, and was JOG nearly under water?
Actually...your route and mileage was very similar to mine, I did 1070. I was incredibly lucky with the weather...in April! Apart from one afternoon of rain the rest of the 14 days were dry and mostly sunny. Got a pretty deep tan and lost about 5kg. One of my most vivid memories of the whole trip was watching the news in a B&B in Dumfries showing the statue of Saddam Hussein being pulled down! Oh, and being refused accommodation on the first night in Cornwall as the snooty guy that ran the place said I looked like I was shifty and maybe 'on the run' from something 🤣 (wouldn't believe I would be doing LEJOG on my own
Was back in 2003 so no smartphone and no GPS device. Navigation was a challenge but somehow worked - highlighter on torn out pages of a large road atlas and followed signposts. Did it mostly on B and minor roads too. Got to say, much prefer the reassurance of my Wahoo!
I did a full write up of mine in the LEJOG section, so won't rewrite it here.
I also carried torn out pages of an atlas witb my route on it as I didn't want to totally trust technology (even though I had no problems with it)
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
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- Inside my skull
Think it will be raining in JOG in 2109