London-Edinburgh-London 2013: The thread

[StuAff]

I crawled from Pocklington to Thirsk and rerouted round the hills, but basically I wasn't fit enough and I couldn't make it round.

Now I'm annoyed with myself for packing but Barnard Castle would have been my absolute limit and I'm not confident I would have managed that.

Commiserations. Far better that you recognised you weren't going to be able to make it & packed rather than ending up in a complete state in the middle of nowhere. There's always next time. And well done for getting that far!

 

[Baggy]

Confirmation that Chuffy is bedding down for the night - said that Yad Moss was the best section so far, but the headwind was hard work. The welcome from vorsprung was much appreciated

 

[PoweredByVeg]

Just about to leave Pock. Lost 50 mins last night helping a rider who'd broken his collar bone and the lack of sleep is hurting. Aiming to hopefully make Brampton today but now it's just one control at a time.

Hi Mcshroom, were you one of the three riders who turned up at Market Rasen after helping the chap with a broken collar bone? Did the Chef sort you out with fish and chips?
Good work and Chapeau! for getting that far

 

[Trickedem]

I'm at Brampton going to sleep now. Bloody tired, left hand hurts, bloody saddle is creaking, one pedal is dying

 

[oldfatfool]

Sat at the control at Thirsk waiting for our first Southbound rider. Hopefully the weather will improve for the Southern leg.

 

[oldfatfool]

First rider South at Thirsk logged in at 1am

 

[frank9755]

Breakfast update:

Basically it looks like most people got to bed at a reasonable time and will probably be on their way now.

Redflight seems to have spent the night at Moffat: got there at 1am
Steve VW had an early night after a good day. Looks like he turned in at Brampton at 10:30. Most probably well on his way now.
As mentioned above, LongMart made his objective of getting to Edinburgh, at 3:20am. Probably just getting up now for the T+WRbtH (he says on Facebook that he left an hour ago)
Tim was at Brampton at 11, but then posted at 12, above. Probably on his way again now. Hope the sore bits recovered overnight!
Pete got to Moffat by 1am
And MartinBrice made good time to get to get to Brampton for 2am.

 

[mcshroom]

Hi Mcshroom, were you one of the three riders who turned up at Market Rasen after helping the chap with a broken collar bone? Did the Chef sort you out with fish and chips?
Good work and Chapeau! for getting that far

I am and he did

I don't know what happened to the Singaporian rider but Tony (V37) checked in at Brampron at 0646

 

[oldfatfool]

[QUOTE 2572861, member: 30090"]That's astonishing. What type of bike were they riding and were they part of a team?[/quote]

Single Dutch chap on his own, didn't see his bike but suspect it was a CF racing m/c

Still only 3 through Thirsk Sth atm.

 

[Brandane]

The official website is worse than useless when looking for news and updates, other than the rider tracking facility. Just as well we have CC to keep us updated . Better luck next time mcshroom; ALL of you deserve a medal for even trying it .

 

[frank9755]

Wow - you wouldn't want that chainring to run into you, when he was pedalling at a high cadence!

 

[mcshroom]

The official website is worse than useless when looking for news and updates, other than the rider tracking facility. Just as well we have CC to keep us updated . Better luck next time mcshroom; ALL of you deserve a medal for even trying it .

There's also a tracking thread here: - https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=74364.msg1532101;topicseen#new or look for #lel2013 on twitter.

I'm on the train to Carlisle to get my car and then off to help at Barnie for a couple days

 

[Mice]

This is all fantastic stuff! Am loving the Frank975 updates - it reminds me of how exhausting it was being keyboard based trying to keep up with you (Frank), zigzag, Swarmcatcher, LoiuseL on PBP!! Totally typical Mcshroom behaviour to help someone else - brings back LonJoG memories! Keep going everyone - it's awesome!

Mice

 

[mcshroom]

I'd like to take credit @Mice but when you meet a man wandering dased along a littke counry lane with a broken collar bone then I think there's only one option. He hit a badger and he and bike were in a bad way.

 

[AnythingButVanilla]

Joan made it to Barnard Castle at 1807, Brampton at 0204 and Moffat at 0906.