- Location
- Inside my skull
"What are you up to this weekend?" my friend asked me.
"I've been wanting to do a century ride for a while so I think I'll do that if I can be bothered to wake up early enough" I replied.
"What's that?"
"You gotta ride a 100 miles or a 100km, I'm doing the miles."
"Wow? Really? OMG. So how long will that take, like 7 or 8 days?"
"Uhm, no, just one day, maybe 7 or 8 hours coz I'm unfit."
The guy nearly fainted. "WHAT? I don't even drive a hundred miles in my car nad you're doing it on a bike, in ONE DAY???"
The funny thing is he is also a cyclist so I figured it's not a big deal for him.
In 2013 the London Edinburgh London audax started on the same day as a London to Cambridge sportive of some sort. The routes coincided somewhere near Ware, Hertfordshire . We were well on the way to St Ives, Cambridgeshire when a rider at the back of our group pipes up “I think we’re going the wrong way”. Almost as one we all replied, no this is right. He then said where are going? We are off to Edinburgh, where are you going? A small voice squeaked “Cambridge” shortly followed by brakes. He wasn’t the only one.
Most often on audaxes if asked where I’ve ridden from, I’ll just mention the last biggish place. If you say the truth they won’t believe you.
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