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Ride London 100

Narra
I have set up this thread with the purpose of inspiring all members of the NAS RL100 team who are taking on this challenge.
 
The chat can be about anything broadly related to this ride.  For example:
 
  • Why this challenge and why are you doing this
  • Who inspired you
  • Discussions about your training
  • Discussions about your fundraising
  • Use it for obtaining tips from experienced members of the team
  • You can identify the level of experience that you already have and what your personal goal is
  • Setting up training rides or routes
  • Discussing how you are going to tackle Newlands Corner, Leith Hill or Box Hill
  • What other members of your family are going to do during your ride
 
It doesn’t matter if you are looking for a PB of less than 5 hours or even if you will even be delighted at beating the nine hour time limit, we will all be experienced cyclist at the end of this experience and all contributions are welcome.
 
PS.  Apparently Kate Donohue is also going to be contributing to this thread!
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  • Hi everyone. I'm rider number 15066 and really excited about joining the NAS team at the Ride LondonSurrey 100.

    I've ridden several sportives before, but never one on closed roads so this will be a real treat. At the moment I am limited to training on a single speed bike - hoping that my new road bike will be built in time for the event - and did Box Hill for the first time in 2013 last weekend. Isn't the new tarmac lovely?! The fact that I managed it in 9 minutes on a 44x18 leads me to hope that Leith Hill and Newlands Corner will be OK (I agree with DJA that Leith Hill is much more of a challenge than Box).

    When I missed out on a ballot place I was delighted to be able to join the NAS team to get a place on the ride; my 22 year old son is severely autistic and really benefits from the support he gets at his NAS-run day centre.

    I had a bit of a scare earlier in the year and thought I might have to pull out of the ride because of a bit of a cancer problem; thankfully that is now (almost) behind me, and I can concentrate on the fundraising and training over the next four weeks.

    Thanks to Kate for her inspirational emails and to Arran for setting up this forum - looking forward to meeting you both, and the rest of the team.

    Geoff

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  • Hi everyone. I'm rider number 15066 and really excited about joining the NAS team at the Ride LondonSurrey 100.

    I've ridden several sportives before, but never one on closed roads so this will be a real treat. At the moment I am limited to training on a single speed bike - hoping that my new road bike will be built in time for the event - and did Box Hill for the first time in 2013 last weekend. Isn't the new tarmac lovely?! The fact that I managed it in 9 minutes on a 44x18 leads me to hope that Leith Hill and Newlands Corner will be OK (I agree with DJA that Leith Hill is much more of a challenge than Box).

    When I missed out on a ballot place I was delighted to be able to join the NAS team to get a place on the ride; my 22 year old son is severely autistic and really benefits from the support he gets at his NAS-run day centre.

    I had a bit of a scare earlier in the year and thought I might have to pull out of the ride because of a bit of a cancer problem; thankfully that is now (almost) behind me, and I can concentrate on the fundraising and training over the next four weeks.

    Thanks to Kate for her inspirational emails and to Arran for setting up this forum - looking forward to meeting you both, and the rest of the team.

    Geoff

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