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WorcsPhil

Myself and a friend did this sportive last sunday. It's based in Cirencester, and seems to be sponsored/run by Performance cycles in Poulton, so not a rip-off sportive by any means. Over 650 riders, most of whom did the easier 100kms route, but the 160kms is a very interesting course. Starts off qui...

WorcsPhil

My congratulations also - a top ride.

As for your next stupid idea, there was talk on the club run yesterday of a plan for the Montgomery Madness and the Kidderminster Killer on successive days...Something for you Elenith boys to take on?????

WorcsPhil

Good stuff, Andy - out of interest, what time did you estimate in your application,? If you know, we might put something similar to get a similar start time.

WorcsPhil

Excellent, Martin...no one else has stepped forward and there's been plenty of time so I reckon you're the elusive fourth man. Team finalised...Again, I'll email separately to avoid boring others, with just points of general interest posted here. No actions as yet until further notice.

WorcsPhil

Beacon are in...I've just received this message: We are delighted to tell you that Beacon RCC application for teams into the 2014 Prudential RideLondon-Surrey 100 Club Challenge on Sunday August 10th, has been successful. You have been allocated: 0 Female team – please note this cannot be swapped fo...

WorcsPhil

Andy, individual entrants do not need to be members of BC, just team entrants.

WorcsPhil

James, I think Laurence has covered it all, and you will see the cost is £48 each, but no actions yet until we're in. There will be logistics costs also, of getting down there and overnight costs on the Saturday night as we'll probably be off before 7am. No arrangements have yet been made...it is qu...

WorcsPhil

Everybody has had long enough to view this thread now. Last day for entries for teams is tomorrow, so to avoid any last minute issues, Beacon RCC have entered one team, with the team self selecting as me, Laurence Cooley, Tim Egan and Alistair Hey. Hope no-one is put out with that! I have our one te...

WorcsPhil

I'll do it this week, Laurence. You're right that the team is self-selecting at present...marvellous. This is the last call for any other participants - for a potential second team entry, which isn't guaranteed.

WorcsPhil

Thanks, Laurence - good spot. So how do we select who's in? As I said, I'm happy to organise our entries but fully recognise others have an equal or stronger right to be included.... Perhaps those who entered but were turned down? Quickest riders to uphold the reputation of our club? Other criteria?...

WorcsPhil

whisper it quietly, but I think bikeroutetoaster is back. It looks a bit different, but all my old routes are there, all exportable and there are maps, undo buttons and altitudes. Just successfully uploaded a route to my garmin...

WorcsPhil

Buried deep on their website is the following...so we're guaranteed one team as we entered last year, so perhaps we could put in for two...update next week. We are again offering British Cycling affiliated clubs the chance to apply for team entries for the Prudential RideLondon-Surrey 100 which take...

WorcsPhil

It's clear that there are a few independent Beacon riders who have successfully got through the ballot for this August sportive but is there a chance for the Beacon Club to enter a team or two? I know there was one entered last year. I'm happy to organise if there's interest and/or we need an offici...

WorcsPhil

It's true that you need to register beforehand to pick up your timing chip etc, but last year you could pick it up anytime from Thursday morning at the Excel Arena, which makes it easier than a Saturday pick up. My possible work entry is fading due to a large number of people not making it through t...

WorcsPhil

Good one, Andy. My ballot application was unsuccessful this year, but have a Plan B with a potential work connection, so still hope to be there....

WorcsPhil

I'd agree Andy...I enjoyed yesterday's stage, with the climb and descent over the Corkscrew. Impressed with Cuddles and it seems as if he's lost some weight this winter and looks pretty fired up already...perhaps he's peeed off with falling away to the likes of Nibali, Froome and Quintana on the mou...

WorcsPhil

Also entered...I think this sells out in a week and is a third full already, so if you're wavering...enter sooner rather than later

WorcsPhil

I read that entries open for the Mad March Hare sportive on sunday (1st December). The event itself is on March 2nd 2014, a week after the Sunrise/Snowdrop Beacon Audax...two 75milers in 2 weeks to kick-start the spring. There were a few Beaconites on this event earlier this year, and it would be go...

WorcsPhil

Hi, I do indeed have some cycling sunglasses, but they are not prescription, merely bifocal reading glasses. They are bifocal wrap around glasses at the (very) cheap end of the market, with a +2.0 reading bifocal which enables me to read my garmin...without them, the damn computer is a blurry set of...

WorcsPhil

Compared to the other audaxes/sportives last weekend, I think I was a Billy Beacon No-mates on the Autumn Epic, but that should not distract from what a top event this is. A flattish first 15kms leads onto seven big climbs on roads with virtually no other vehicles, most climbs getting to over 400m e...

WorcsPhil

I'm doing this ride on Sunday, which is a lovely but tough 155kms in the Welsh borders from Knighton, with big climbs on the Rhyader Mountain road, Glascym (25%) and Presteigne...any other Beaconites venturing into the wild west this week? ride details here... http://www.cyclosportives.co.uk/epicHom...

WorcsPhil

Proportionally to other threads, there seems to be a lack of comment on pro racing, but the Vuelta has thrown up a number of good talking points, namely: - Chris Horner's amazing standing-up climbing tactics. Let's put aside suspicions of illegal substances here, but a 42 year old dancing up these s...

WorcsPhil

About time this was resurrected before 2013 is over...recognising that Claire's picture trumps everyone....48 hairpins and a beacon bidon.

WorcsPhil

http://www.flickr.com/photos/99870064@N05/9444887417 Although I was not in the Beacon official group, I still wore our new kit and proud to do so...many highlights, but the glass-like surface on Box Hill was an experience after the Worcestershire re-surfacing of the last few weeks, and hurtling thr...

WorcsPhil

Just got back home from a fast day on the bike in London...read about the rain and crashes on the Beacon run today so don't hate me when I say it was perfect conditions in London, dry and 20c. The closed roads, excellent organisation (which meant there was little or no bike congestion on the course)...

WorcsPhil

Excellent description of the day, James...congrats for even finishing...By my reckoning, when you conclude by saying "I don't think I want to do it again"...that means give it a week and you'll sign up one more time...unfinished business and all that. Well done to all the Beacon Marmoteers

WorcsPhil

I'm reading on another forum that it was a brutal day at the Marmotte this year, with temperatures touching 40c and riders scattered at the side of the Alpe d'Huez seeking shade, water and the will to live, so hearty congratulations, Gary on completing it in a good time, in fact completing it at all...

WorcsPhil

No worries...Yes, it's an early start for us amateurs. I'm off at 06:38 and need to get lined up before 6am. Luckily, our hotel is only a 10min cycle away...The things we do to get out of the way of the pro cyclists, huh.

WorcsPhil

Nic, I'm driving down to Stratford next to the Olympic Park on the saturday and back on the sunday afternoon and will have space in the car for you and your bike, but I'm already booked into a dirt-cheap hotel with a mate, so can't offer a room, I'm afraid. A lift to/from the event is open if you wa...

WorcsPhil

Well spotted, Laurence. I'll take any additional seconds with gratitude, but it doesn't get me anywhere near the podium. Well done to Steve, Laurence and Martin in particular (as well as Chris for being the fastest on the night of course) Andy, you're getting a reputation for 'loose' route finding, ...

WorcsPhil

Just to add my thanks to Phil and indeed everyone for the camaraderie which made the day and ride more manageable that I ever thought it'd be. It was true as Phil says that a lot of people had never ridden this distance before (including me...my longest had been 130miles), and yesterday proved that ...

WorcsPhil

Good luck to you both and enjoy the ride(s)...1000 miles, 9 days and 50 excuses for cake, what could be a better way of spending this week?

WorcsPhil

Can I please nominate Les's post as Post of the Year 2013...most amusing. So a pint of Double Diamond it is. Alternatively 50% of us could eat porridge and 50% not and submit our findings to the Lancet...I'll take the risk. I guess in most of these things, it's a personal thing, but I agree a great ...

WorcsPhil

Bad luck today, Harry...what was your mechanical? Saw you looking forlorn at the roundabout at Spetchley. ...and a big congrats to all, especially Chris and Ed, great times in that nagging wind. Ed came past me (unsurprisingly), and it's almost a pleasure to hear him first, them solid aero wheels pu...

WorcsPhil

on the 160kms, the controls were at Ipstones on the way up and Wyaston on the way back. Wyaston is a couple of kms after the Ashbourne hill, but Ipstones is up on the moors somewhere...where the locals warned us to "stay on the path lads, don't stray onto the moors" (straight out of American Werewol...

WorcsPhil

Rode with a friend from Lichfield CC today on the 160kms Derbyshire Dales audax. A good ride into the Peak district so not roads I'm too familiar with, but it was worthwhile to get onto the moors with light(ish) winds. The controls were excellent with free tea, cakes, tiffin and maltloaf, and plenty...

WorcsPhil

only 7 weeks to go till Weston...gulp. Training in terms of longer runs is being stepped up now, but Phil (and other long-distance regulars), what advice would you give for the post 10-hour fatigue and motivation loss? ...and by the way, can you assure everybody that we're finishing on the prom, and...

WorcsPhil

Nick, it looks as if you've put them in some sort of priority order! Yes, The organisers of the Cheshire Cat have dropped a goolie there, I think. For every person that couldn't make that reserve date, they could have refunded and then sold on again, still selling out, and enhancing their reputation...

WorcsPhil

I read somewhere that bikes are renewed every 5-10 years on average by club cyclists, and therefore I guess there are 20+ new bikes purchased every year by Beacon riders. I see from a similar thread that Paul's Spesh Roubaix and Keith's Trek Madone 4.7 have made their debut this week, and my new bik...

WorcsPhil

Good ride James...my Strava shows 4:20 cycling time (4:28 with the stops), and pleased with this given my normal weakness in hill climbing....Not sure I could get the sub 4-hour you're targeting though. That big climb would have been nasty in wet weather, luckily all the mud had dried off! Hey Clair...

WorcsPhil

Many good recommendations here, and can back up the comments from Philip and Laurence in that Epic, Echelon and Cult Racing are good choices for this issue (Speeds not mentioned in this breath?...er...no). Had test rides from Epic in Ludlow and Echelon in Pershore and decided on Epic, who undertook ...

WorcsPhil

Months and months ago, I entered the ballot for the inaugural RideLondon100 sportive, and heard yesterday that I am one of the 20,000 successful entries for the event on Aug 4th, same day as the pro race over the same course, and pleased to get in. It starts at the Olympic Park and on through London...

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