PaulB said:
+1, this is looking like it should be a great ride.
vernon said:This is hardly the ideal event for a relative newcomer. The original posters's average speed, further reduced by the hilliness of the course,would not allow him to qualify as a finisher.
Audaxes might well be the answer.
A look at www.audax.uk.net and then the calender menu item might turn something up.
this is bollocks, there is no 'minimum' speed on sportives, UNLIKE audaxes!
on the northern rock cyclone sportive there were all sorts of slow bimblers, kids, tandems, mums on shopping bikes, BSOs, i'm sure there were even a couple of grannies.
Sportives are easier in the sense that you don't have to find your own way.