I'll admit I also didn't see anywhere near as much "bad" riding as I expected from my previous RL attempt and from people's recollections of other years. I was pleasantly surprised with how carefully people were taking the descents - I'm currently not the world's fastest descender even in the dry, so to see very few other people flying past me, and even those who did overtake gave me a good wide berth and then didn't exactly disappear off into the distance either, which made me feel quite relieved - I clearly wasn't the only one taking it easy!
Heard a few "on your right"s, but even these seemed to be polite requests and not just the usual "I'll shout this as I barge through to absolve myself" cases we usually hear about. Only once did I hear a rider yell at some others, and on that occasion he was probably in the right, just he could have got the same result with a politer way of expressing it. (There were a bunch of people walking up Newlands Corner, but they were doing it side by side instead of single file, meaning that they were essentially taking up most of one of the lanes to themselves, preventing others from getting past them)
Don't want to be too morbid, but does anyone know where the guy had his heart attack? I think I went through Leith Hill at about that time, but didn't see anyone getting any attention. There was someone down on the steep little climb you do just before you take the left turn into Leith itself, but that looked more like an crash/accident as I passed it, rather than a medical situation.
Saw two others in the foil blankets - one of them on the flat section post Box Hill (before you reach the hairpin back down to Leatherhead) who did look in a bad way. The one accident I saw happen was just 100 yards or so in front of me (though in opposite lane) between Oxshott and Esher where a guy's bike just seemed to flip over with no other riders nearby. I can only assume it was a manhole cover or something, but he certainly made a crash when he hit the deck.
