Palace to Palace
Discussion
Anyone on here doing the Palace to palace next Sunday (14th)?
http://www.princes-trust.org.uk/support_us/events/...
i am doing it as part of the Hewlett Packard team, we normally raise about £32,000 each year, but it will be my first year taking part.
Not done a charity ride like this before and certainly not done 45 miles on my MTB. I have switched to Slick tyres and up to 35 miles in training, which feels OK
The main issue is that our Team start time is 07:46!! which makes getting there quite tricky, so I plan to drive to Windsor and dump the car, then cycle to Slough Railway station and get the train to Paddington
http://www.princes-trust.org.uk/support_us/events/...
i am doing it as part of the Hewlett Packard team, we normally raise about £32,000 each year, but it will be my first year taking part.
Not done a charity ride like this before and certainly not done 45 miles on my MTB. I have switched to Slick tyres and up to 35 miles in training, which feels OK
The main issue is that our Team start time is 07:46!! which makes getting there quite tricky, so I plan to drive to Windsor and dump the car, then cycle to Slough Railway station and get the train to Paddington
Great fun, although a bit cold to start (especially riding from Windsor to Slough Station at 6:30 this morning in the fog!)
The train was hell with about 80 bikes on board, I got wedged between 2 bikes and had an old lady leaning against me inappropriately... :¬O
Did it in 3 hours 9 minutes riding time, about 3 hrs 30 mins elapsed as I stopped at the first watering point for the toilet, missed the second stop and then stopped at the third (34 miles) to top my water bottles up. I managed an average if 14.3mph!
http://www.endomondo.com/workouts/100038615?countr...
Bike behaved itself, which I was really pleased with as it is a self-build.
The thing I found odd was that the roadies would pile past me on the flat and then I would whip past them up the hills...
The train was hell with about 80 bikes on board, I got wedged between 2 bikes and had an old lady leaning against me inappropriately... :¬O
Did it in 3 hours 9 minutes riding time, about 3 hrs 30 mins elapsed as I stopped at the first watering point for the toilet, missed the second stop and then stopped at the third (34 miles) to top my water bottles up. I managed an average if 14.3mph!
http://www.endomondo.com/workouts/100038615?countr...
Bike behaved itself, which I was really pleased with as it is a self-build.
The thing I found odd was that the roadies would pile past me on the flat and then I would whip past them up the hills...
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