Beacon Cotswold Audax 2012
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Beacon Cotswold Audax 2012
We are now taking entries for the 2012 Cotswold Audax!
We’re following the format many of you will be familiar with from previous years, with lovely picturesque routes and loads of grub and freebies, but:
- We’ve tweaked a short section of our longest option
- We’re including a couple of really nice new cafés on our two longer rides
- We’ve polished up our photo service (weather permitting, we’ll be photographing as many riders as possible and making the digital images available afterwards FREE)
- We’re in the process of upgrading our GPS support
- We’ve got a new bottle supplier (super bottles this time!)
- And, if you enter via the website, it’ll cost you LESS than it did last year!
Check out the website
Enter now
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I'm also in for the 160km, but I really wished that I would have checked my diary first as I have just noticed that I have also entered the 200 km Mr Pickwicks High Summer Meander which is on the day before.....doh!!!
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Bah, you can manage 360km in a single weekend. No excuses.AlanW wrote:I'm also in for the 160km, but I really wished that I would have checked my diary first as I have just noticed that I have also entered the 200 km Mr Pickwicks High Summer Meander which is on the day before.....doh!!!
My excuse: I am back to my outdoor roots, doing silly things in wilderness. This time it will be walking into to the teeth of a full-on Atlantic storm on An Cliseam, a very remote mountain on Harris. http://www.sealga.co.uk/hebrides/med/su ... aintir.jpg
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Thanks Nic, looking forward to it, and the bad jokes I think?Pedlo Mudguardo wrote:Myself, Matt and Ian will be riding together. It would be great to have you with us - if you can stand the bad jokes
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I don't wish to worry you Nic, but according to the list that George has just posted, your down to ride the Expedition?Pedlo Mudguardo wrote:Myself, Matt and Ian will be riding together. It would be great to have you with us - if you can stand the bad jokes
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What Steve said, oh yes........CakeStop wrote:Thanks to George, Family and all helpers - another great day out on the bike.
Outstanding company today, thanks for a great day out chaps.
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Great Day
It was all good thanks to everyone who helped out. I'd particularly like to thank Rob and John from Severn RC who I rode with for most of the day great pace and good company.
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Thanks to everyone who helped make this another great Beacon audax - George (and family), kitchen helpers, car park guys, controls. Got very wet and mucky and as a result (like Greg) my front mech seized up and (like Keith) got stuck on my bike as my cleats seized up too! Thanks to Ian for the company on the way round, hope your arms aren't too tired from all the tyre pumping you had to do!
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Dont forget to give your Nan her surgical stocking back Greg.Grogz wrote:Great day, thanks George and team. And the company was excellent, too! Oh, and I think I've fixed my front derailleur...until next time.
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Sadly, she no longer needs them. So I'll continue to make good use of my inheritance.AlanW wrote:Dont forget to give your Nan her surgical stocking back Greg.Grogz wrote:Great day, thanks George and team. And the company was excellent, too! Oh, and I think I've fixed my front derailleur...until next time.
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Well after being unable to complete my first audax attempt on the express audax in february I managed to complete the cotswold journey yesterday. Many thanks to George & all the rest of the organising team. Also special thanks to the guys i rode around with - Alan, Matt, Nic, Ian, Greg & Keith - for towing me around.
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Many thanks indeed to all who made it happen, another great day of cycling. 3 years in a row and still a fantastic ride. I got drenched twice, but weather turned out to be better than I though it would?
I don't why, but I was a little slower getting round this year. Cycling time excluding stops increased. I'm either less fit, getting old, or it was just the wind?
I don't why, but I was a little slower getting round this year. Cycling time excluding stops increased. I'm either less fit, getting old, or it was just the wind?
Clive, I haven't performed any kind of detailed analysis, but my general impression was that most people took longer than last year. Anything I might say about the reasons would be guesswork, but it's hard to imagine that the weather wasn't a factor.Clive wrote:I don't why, but I was a little slower getting round this year. Cycling time excluding stops increased. I'm either less fit, getting old, or it was just the wind?
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Wind and cold make a huge difference to riding long distances. I recently rode the Droitwich-Towcester audax into the the teeth of a strong east wind. The journey took 4.5 hours outbound and 3.5 hours on the way back!Clive wrote: or it was just the wind?
The only times I have managed a sub-8 hour 200km audaxes have been in hot weather. In mid-winter, I can expect anything less than 10 hours.
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My first ever Audax of 160km ! Driving rain (got soaked, dried out then soaked for a second time) and strong winds really slowed us down, had some real fun though, Andy Nott’s great water proof trousers were so good it didn’t start raining till he took then off !
Thanks to Ian for having all our **flat**s.
Would I do it next year ? Too right I will !
Thanks George and everyone who helped out.
Thanks to Ian for having all our **flat**s.
Would I do it next year ? Too right I will !
Thanks George and everyone who helped out.
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