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toby

I'm definitely a maybe for this again. And planning a second 300km ride the following Friday.

toby

laurence_cooley wrote:I'd been thinking about it for almost four days and hadn't really come up with anything, George.

The new course is pending CTT approval. Fingers crossed...

Beacon RCC are awaiting the OK from CTT?
MRAU

toby

If the LMTT is on the CTT site, does that mean we can enter asap, pdq?

TTFN

TD

toby

Hels147 wrote:Anyone got some heated insoles?! Not been on the road bike since the weather changed.... Fear I'm gonna be cold!

You, Andy and me on a ride together again? The weather is guarenteed to be utterly disgusting now!!

toby

Just copied the route to my navigation device so can do a turn or two.
The weather forecast changes depending on which website I look at but I'm optimistic the nastiness should have cleared by meet time.
See you in the morning!

toby

This is the schedule for next Thursday's stage; http://www.womenstour.co.uk/files/documents/Stage2_Atherstone_StratforduponAvon_ETA.pdf I am planning to ride to Meriden and then to Stratford for the finish. If people have different plans or variation of pace then we could meet up on Bridge St as nea...

toby

Chapeau to everybody who shared our adventure yesterday. Particular thanks to Phil W for devising the mad idea, planning the route and your leadership and to Paul for leading that other unruly mob. Thanks also to Phil R for your enthusiastic stewardship of club runs and for lifting morale on the roa...

toby

With a month to go, just wanted to "bump" this and make sure those interested had the time off on the 16th June and to see if anyone else wants to come and watch the race with us.

Between now and then we can discuss where to watch the race go past and routes there etc.

toby

http://www.velogames.com

Beacon RCC League code: 04104155

toby

Respect to everyone, competitors and officials, for braving that. I spent the last four days looking at weather forecasts talking myself into and back out of showing up today.

toby

Woo hoo! That's fantastic. Thanks Simon.

toby

Patch wrote:Toby your handicap was 3.00 which is the difference between base time 15 min and your previous best 18.00. So you are quite right you should have had 3 min knocked off your new PB of 16:41 = 13:41

Thanks for confirming Chris

toby

... so further to my last post, reviewing others' expected time, they have had the difference between expected and actual time taken from (or added to) the base 15 mins. Which makes my handicap time 13.41, correct?

toby

Hi Simon - I rode the course with a time of 18 minutes last year. So I'm just interested to find out whether my result here is restricted to the base time like riders who've not rode the course before or whether, by coincidence, my result matches a ride that results a calculated time that equals the...

toby

Thanks for today Andy & Chris. Well done to everybody. It was cold and that bloody road never gets any less worrying.

toby

The race starts on Wednesday 15th June. Lizzie Armitstead should be racing, so this will be a chance to cheer on the current World Road Racing Champion. On Thursday 16th, stage two passes through Beacon Club run territory with a stage from Atherstone to Stratford Upon Avon. If there is sufficient in...

toby

Do I need to confirm on this thread? Mrs Draper has just green lighted all my proposed cycling dates for the year

toby

It would be good to attract new riders to Weds night runs. It starts on my doorstep so I try to turn out as often as possible all year round. Newbies used to turn up regularly but that appears to have abated of late. Perhaps the route is off putting at this time of year? There are three particularly...

toby

Very entertaining Neil!

toby

Cheers Keith, that was... character building.

toby

Hey Matthew. I don't mean to be presumptuous about your riding just from your breif description. A runs are generally over 16 mph even when we do the occasional longer route, like James's on Sunday. I tried to graduate from solo riding straight into an A run when I joined the Beacon and I regretted ...

toby

Tim wrote:Just checked this for first time!

It was £20 each yes? winner takes all?

Certainly nothing for fifth place mate.

toby

Thanks to Phil for organising a superb event once again and your team of helpers on the day.

toby

Thanks all. As I said earlier, I didn't want this to sound like sour grapes and definitely did not want to offer anything other than congratulations to Simon and Martin for those excellent times. And add appreciation to Patch et al for their efforts over the season. But last night, after a long day ...

toby

... or the number of points on offer should be weighted by the low turn out. There were two riders entered. They scored 40 and 39 points. A third person, high in the table in the handicap comp could have entered today, rolled round in three and a half hours and score 38 points.

toby

Yes. Both valid points. And the club absolutely needs a 50 champs. But if future schedule conflicts occur, the TT should be removed as a contributing event towards the handicap comp when the date is published.

toby

I get that Laurence. But if Simon hadn't raced today, Martin would've got 40 points for the handicap comp, unchallenged by anyone else at the top of the table who was supporting a major club event.

toby

BTW - well done Simon and Martin. I didn't want to detract from your performances today. This isn't sour grapes:)

toby

That was the page i was referring to Laurence. But I've never scrolled down that far. I'm going to stop reading the club page on a smartphone and use a proper computer monitor next season so I don't miss out on handicap points from not reading something in the page footer. That's to say nothing abou...

toby

So was this a Beacon event? I didn't know about this (its not on the calandar) and note that some big scores have been awarded in the handicap comp.

toby

A seamless transition into organising The Cotswold Audaxes! Thanks Pete and thsnks to your team at HQ and yhe controls.

toby

Fantastic ride today Phil. Also a disciplined and collaborative one, which made it particularly enjoyable.

I predicted I would sleep well this afternoon and I did.

toby

Bugger. I feel cheated. I'm upgrading to Record asap.

toby

Not sure which Campag group set you have George. I just did some half arsed research and while I can buy an entire Athena 11 Speed group set for less than a Chorus 11 speed group set, which fits with the price points for those product ranges, I cannot then buy an Athena 11 speed cassette on its own ...

toby

Hi Raj - if you can ride for an hour and a half at a steady pace, stop for a cup of tea and a piece of cake and then ride for another hour and a half, you'll be fine. Looks like its going to be a fine day for a bike ride, judging by the weather forecast, so even less to be nervous about! I hope you ...

toby

Three years ago, almost to the day, I turned up at the Black Horse for the first time on a Sunday morning and joined the A run to Arley Arboretum. I remember some of the other riders in attendance and some of the route. But most of the painful memories of that day have been erased by some kind of ps...

toby

The competition is hotting up! I'm looking forward to better conditions on the next couple of Wednesdays to hopefully set a new PB. Last Wednesday night was soul destroying!!

I notice that the race on 24th June is the "Club Handicap Champs". How does that relate to this competition?

toby

The route for Sunday's A run; https://www.strava.com/routes/1616405 Out via St Kenelms and Sheepwalks. Feed station at Arley Arboretum, after which we'll cross the Severn on the footbridge, descend on Bewdley before looping round by Heightington and Dunley way, crossing the Severn again Stourport. F...

toby

Hi Alex - there should be riders meeting at the Red Lion at 7pm every week, though many of us are competing in club TTs on Wednesdays at the moment.

toby

It's partly a local dialect thing to - in Birmingham lots of things are prefixed with the definite article such as the Hagley Road, or the Pershore Road. The clubs where I grew up were never prefixed and were just referred to by name, and I still don't refer to this club as The Beacon. John - The e...

toby

Ok - The Bromsgrove wasn't my example, Phil. But i will defer to a former member. My research so far has turned up this as a local example;

"The Halesowen is a cycling club, somewhere you can come & enjoy riding your bike, race or just meet new friends too. We are proud to wear purple

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toby

Hmmm... I am never particularly swayed by arguments around class. If we look at football, a resolutely working class game, clubs with "County" in their name are always "County" and never "The County", the latter I reckon is a more middle class way of expressing it. Also, Nottingham Forest is always ...

toby

I have always been aware of being a member of "The Beacon" and have heard other members referring to other cycling clubs such as "The Stourbridge". This way of expressing the name of ones club appears peculiar to cycling. Other sports clubs I played for did not refer to themselves in this manner. I ...

toby

I created a mini league - code is 06095550

Let's see if all that cafe stop talk about pro racing and hours sat in front of Eurosport thus far this season correlates to decent predictions for the first Grand Tour of the year.

http://www.velogames.com

toby

Thanks Rich - just a heads up for the admins really to ensure the link goes to the correct route.

toby

Just planning my next few events, noticed that the calendar page at http://www.beaconrcc.org.uk/club_races/ ... index.html lists K34/10D on Wednesday 6th May but the link for the course takes you to a route for K8/10T.

toby

WorcsPhil wrote:Some great times there in those conditions, and hey, Toby...every second counts, huh!

Certainly did this week mate!

toby

Thanks Chris, Andy for the last couple of weeks and Keri and James also today.

The last couple of weeks have been a really terrific experience. I'm enjoying TT immensely! Roll on the next one!!

toby

and me!

toby

slogfester wrote:Nah. narcissistic twat. Go watch, admire, party, celebrate, have fun, but remember, its about the riders, the race and the course, not about me me me me me me.

well said that man!

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