London-Edinburgh-London 2013: The thread

[ianrauk]

Unfortunately I am out. I know that my knee and my body could not take the stress of this ride.

 

[martint235]

goodness me i need to start taking this serious, it's not far off now!.

Nah it's over a year away yet.....

 

[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

Nah it's over a year away yet.....

with life and niggling illness' getting in the way last year and placements so far this year, i haven't got much riding in. i really need to get serious, especially doing it on the brommie.

 

[martint235]

Injuries (to me and other people) mean I've achieved none of my goals for this year so far. I was going for an SR which is slipping away (ie not done a single audax yet). LEL will be fun!!

 

[mcshroom]

Illness means I'm one tour and about 800km down on where I wanted to be. However I do have a hilly 150, and a 200 Audax in this year and I'm riding a 300 on Saturday so hopefully I'm still on track for an SR (which I'm now sure is short for 'Sectionable Rider')

 

[PpPete]

Illness means I'm one tour and about 800km down on where I wanted to be. However I do have a hilly 150, and a 200 Audax in this year and I'm riding a 300 on Saturday so hopefully I'm still on track for an SR (which I'm now sure is short for 'Sectionable Rider')

Not wrong there mcshroom !
Still on course for my SR this year, 200s every month so far, and a 300 done. This year's "big one" - the Bryan Chapman (600km) - is in less than two weeks time now. The "National 400" should, I hope, be easy by comparison.

 

[mcshroom]

Good luck in the Brian Chapman - I'm a chicken so my 600 (should I choose to accept it) is looking like the Cambrian on the 14th July (only 3000m climbing in 600km) and I'm looking at the Wiggy 300 and the LlanfairP 400 in three weeks time first.

Then there's the small matter of LonJOG and the extra extension round to Cape Wrath and down to Mallaig to worry about

 

[Ian H]

The new LEL website is now live. http://londonedinburghlondon.com/

 

[frank9755]

the extra extension round to Cape Wrath and down to Mallaig to worry about

That is a ride I'd love to do! Look forward to hearing about it.

 

[mcshroom]

Well the Wiggy didn't really work. I cramped up riding into Richmond and had to pack at just over 200km. Looks like a bit more training may be needed

 

[Slowerthanmyshadow]

I usually end up riding alone and some of the more remote locations might test my stubbornness to the limit.

 

[PpPete]

Just to continue discussion in the other thread.... you can certainly charge 4xAA batteries from a dynohub with a day's riding... which gives you easily enough to power a Garmin Etrex for the next 24hours, and then use the dynohub for lighting at night. Or plan your stops to minimise night riding, pack Lithium batteries in your drop-bag / buy Duracells @ garages

 

[iZaP]

Where I work at, my boss got some samples from China of charging packs, some are 10k mAh, some 7/8k, etc. Charges my garmin perfectly!!! and they aren't as expensive as some of the branded charging packs!

 

[PalmerSperry]

The pair of Edge 305s I had (I dropped them and they stopped working!) would happily take a charge whilst continuing to function, however the Edge 500 I've got turns itself off as soon as external power is applied. If I end up doing this LEL lark after all[1] I may need to come up with alternative arrangements! Though since I've read that the Edge doesn't like recording more than some few hundreds of km (400?) I'd have to come up with something for that anyway I guess.

[1] A relative has unhelpfully rescheduled their wedding, and hence I may be forced to choose between that and LEL.

 

[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

tbh route cards are pretty good and not difficult to use, that said i'll probably sell the edge 500 and by something better.