Nomadski
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Continued...
Got some photos of friends at the park, all suffering a terrible day in the heat.
It was touch and go on the target time, so I left and really tried to put the hammer down, down through Headley to Leatherhead, through to Esher and then Kingston and Raynes Park all done in 32 minutes. There @themosquitoking was waiting to jump in for a few select miles and give me some much needed encouragement up Wimbledon Hill.
My legs were shot at this stage, but I kept spinning and we rode down the fun section through to Putney where he veered off to civvy traffic while I gritted and rode with a few fellow Cannondale riders.
As we approached Parliament Square I went for a last gasp sprint, enjoying the noise around me of barriers being beaten, and cheers from various charity volunteers, rounded the last corner under the arch where my wife just about managed to catch me on a photo at the back, although the grinning chap in the foreground seemed quite happy to be finishing too!
And done!
A long wait for the medal and to get bags back, but chuffed it's a different colour to 2013, and same high quality medal. Very relieved to have finished.
Then some treats.
The wife seemed very happy with her medal...
Then it was a matter of riding the 1 mile to drop the bike of with the trucks, head back to QEOP and pick it back up to take back to hotel.
STILL cant believe this is West Ham's ground...
Then a meal and quite a lot of 2for1 cocktails! Salute.
My cycling time was 5hrs 42mins, my official time came in at 6hrs 12mins. So I still have that 6hr official time to beat, but 190 Strava achievements and a sub 6 hour moving time still left me happy with the effort.
My Garmin only recorded 99.6 miles. Which was annoying!
https://www.strava.com/activities/359939786
Got some photos of friends at the park, all suffering a terrible day in the heat.
It was touch and go on the target time, so I left and really tried to put the hammer down, down through Headley to Leatherhead, through to Esher and then Kingston and Raynes Park all done in 32 minutes. There @themosquitoking was waiting to jump in for a few select miles and give me some much needed encouragement up Wimbledon Hill.
My legs were shot at this stage, but I kept spinning and we rode down the fun section through to Putney where he veered off to civvy traffic while I gritted and rode with a few fellow Cannondale riders.
As we approached Parliament Square I went for a last gasp sprint, enjoying the noise around me of barriers being beaten, and cheers from various charity volunteers, rounded the last corner under the arch where my wife just about managed to catch me on a photo at the back, although the grinning chap in the foreground seemed quite happy to be finishing too!
And done!
A long wait for the medal and to get bags back, but chuffed it's a different colour to 2013, and same high quality medal. Very relieved to have finished.
Then some treats.
The wife seemed very happy with her medal...
Then it was a matter of riding the 1 mile to drop the bike of with the trucks, head back to QEOP and pick it back up to take back to hotel.
STILL cant believe this is West Ham's ground...
Then a meal and quite a lot of 2for1 cocktails! Salute.
My cycling time was 5hrs 42mins, my official time came in at 6hrs 12mins. So I still have that 6hr official time to beat, but 190 Strava achievements and a sub 6 hour moving time still left me happy with the effort.
My Garmin only recorded 99.6 miles. Which was annoying!
https://www.strava.com/activities/359939786
and headed off to Bowthorpe and Bawburgh and then, as I was crossing the B1108 Watton Road, there was a nice chap on a roadie (very sexy looking Matt Black Canyon with Di2s - not sure what he looked like). I told him about CC and said that the only thing he needed to join was to have ridden a bike at some point but we were very strict on needing to drink tea, have a love of cake and to be able to provide photos of bikes. He thinks we sound a fine bunch 
