RideLondon - Surrey 100 anyone?

[Iain M Norman]

Whats preventing anyone not affiliated with the organisations ballot or charity requirements from just joining in on the ride?

I might just join in anyway,i couldnt get in on the ballot and have no charity,there is no law preventing me from cycling on the same roads at the same time,its a free country

Most sportifs I'd say go for it. I did this at one the other day as I waited ages for someone to come register they never did and the briefing was called then we were off.

But the Ride100 is on closed roads so you might end up not being able to pull the 'they're just public roads' card.

 

[Iain M Norman]

My latest long distance training ride. A new fastest time for 100 km of 3 hours 20 minutes.

http://app.strava.com/activities/56392808

That was in a small group of 3 guys. Should be able to manage faster in the Ride100 sized groups.

Hopefully I can manage the 160 km in less then 6 hours.

 

[Iain M Norman]

Not me, i ticked boxes saying i didnt want to receive 3rd party information

The magazine is from the organisers, so not 3rd party.

I've just had the one magazine at the beginning. Has there been a second?

 

[Phoenix Lincs]

Like a lot of other commentors - it got to 1st April and I thought "Time to get training". Following a training plan designed to get me to 100 miles in 4 weeks. Granted it won't be in impressive time- but I have 3 months to work on that at the end of the plan. Have currently finished Week 1 and and doing back to back 30 milers in the week with a 40+ miler at weekends. Feeling pretty good too.

Like a lot on here am concerned about the hills but as I live in Yorkshire finding some of those to practise on won't be a problem. Will get my base fitness in 1st though.

Have also entered a "trial 100" in Nottingham at the end of June, the aim being to do the distance there and then having 5 weeks to iron out any "kinks" before the London event.

I'm doing Nottingham too. You riding with friends or alone?

 

[SquareDaff]

I was going to put a topic on here to ask if anyone else was doing it? I'm turning up on my own but am happy to meet up with anyone beforehand. Do you know if anyone other than ourselves are doing it?

 

[Phoenix Lincs]

Folks??? Anybody doing Nottingham on Sunday 23 June? 25, 50 or 100 miles

www.cyclelivenottingham.co.uk

Apart from myself and SquareDaff?

 

[henshaw11]

Has anyone that was already registered, received details on transport options? - specifically the park+ride stuff. I've just got a late-released space and gone back to look at the FAQs on start times, which by public transport from Surrey ain't gonna work, the other option being I start out at about 4:30 and ride the 25 miles across town first

I've mailed Wiggle for details but have yet to hear..

That said, looking at the above details on Leith Hill, that might be one reason to bail - I was intending to take a recumbent, Box Hill it's fine for, Newlands is a bit of a git, but I've not been up Leith Hill...

 

[stu9000]

Has anyone that was already registered, received details on transport options? - specifically the park+ride stuff. I've just got a late-released space and gone back to look at the FAQs on start times, which by public transport from Surrey ain't gonna work, the other option being I start out at about 4:30 and ride the 25 miles across town first

I've mailed Wiggle for details but have yet to hear..

That said, looking at the above details on Leith Hill, that might be one reason to bail - I was intending to take a recumbent, Box Hill it's fine for, Newlands is a bit of a git, but I've not been up Leith Hill...

I've not heard anything.
Anytime in June according to the pru site.

 

[Phoenix Lincs]

I'm hoping to get some more info soon. Time is marching on ... I'll post on here when I get more info

Reason for edit. Wrong smiley

 

[procel]

The magazine is from the organisers, so not 3rd party.

I've just had the one magazine at the beginning. Has there been a second?

It says in the 1st magazine that the second will be out at the beginning of July

 

[procel]

That said, looking at the above details on Leith Hill, that might be one reason to bail - I was intending to take a recumbent, Box Hill it's fine for, Newlands is a bit of a git, but I've not been up Leith Hill...

There's a bit in the magazine which says that recumbents aren't allowed. Neither are hand-cycles, and tandems are only allowed if the person on the back is visually impaired.

 

[zizou]

Were we not supposed to have been told the starting waves by now? Pretty sure it was meant to be first week in June for that.

 

[Longshot]

All of the pre-race and organisational stuff was supposed to be out in June. There's still two weeks to go but, even so, it'd be nice to make some concrete plans for the event.

 

[benb]

I've got a place, just in the general ballot rather than a charity place.
No idea yet what my start time is, but will post it here when I know so if there are a few of us leaving at around the same time we can ride together for a bit.

 

[Jdratcliffe]

Has anyone that was already registered, received details on transport options? - specifically the park+ride stuff. I've just got a late-released space and gone back to look at the FAQs on start times, which by public transport from Surrey ain't gonna work, the other option being I start out at about 4:30 and ride the 25 miles across town first

I've mailed Wiggle for details but have yet to hear..

That said, looking at the above details on Leith Hill, that might be one reason to bail - I was intending to take a recumbent, Box Hill it's fine for, Newlands is a bit of a git, but I've not been up Leith Hill...

leith is fine its just like box but in one long drag mate of mine from high school and i got a place and last weekend we planed to do all three hills as a scout route again and although due to the wind and rain we ditch leith at the last min here strava ( im lucky living in redhill i'm on the doorstep of these beauties to train for this ride..

http://app.strava.com/activities/60484836we're looking at sub 5hrs completion time... considering we hit huge trafffic at some parts and the wind was a killer we recon we're on target