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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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  • I am delighted with the number of responses which this thread has generated and it appears that so far I am the only one in the in the NAS RL100 team personally on the spectrum.  Unfortunately living in the East Midlands I do not normally get into the Surrey Hills; however it does mean that I do get more of an opportunity to get out into Derbyshire and the Peak District.

    I notice that for many of you this is going to be your first closed road cycling event, however will be my eighth and third this year.  Can I assure you that if you are worried about your overall time, on these events your speed will be at least ten to fifteen percent greater than you will normal average.  The only difficulty is trying not to slow down for red traffic lights!

    I have been out training hard and have already done the necessary miles, however as we are (hopefully) moving house this week I am now grounded for a short while!  How many of you are going for the 100 press-up challenge as identified in the training section of the RL100 pre-event magazine.

    It is possibly now is the time to think about any major maintenance work as I suspect that many of the Local Bike Shops (especially in the South East), that will be inundated with work nearer the date.  My chain is now due to be changed as it about 60% worn.

    My start time is 06.04 time, is there any one else in the team with an early start?

    Finally (time permitting), it would be nice to try and do a reccy of the Surrey loop of before the big day.  All I have done is just the uphill sections of Leith and Box Hill!

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  • I am delighted with the number of responses which this thread has generated and it appears that so far I am the only one in the in the NAS RL100 team personally on the spectrum.  Unfortunately living in the East Midlands I do not normally get into the Surrey Hills; however it does mean that I do get more of an opportunity to get out into Derbyshire and the Peak District.

    I notice that for many of you this is going to be your first closed road cycling event, however will be my eighth and third this year.  Can I assure you that if you are worried about your overall time, on these events your speed will be at least ten to fifteen percent greater than you will normal average.  The only difficulty is trying not to slow down for red traffic lights!

    I have been out training hard and have already done the necessary miles, however as we are (hopefully) moving house this week I am now grounded for a short while!  How many of you are going for the 100 press-up challenge as identified in the training section of the RL100 pre-event magazine.

    It is possibly now is the time to think about any major maintenance work as I suspect that many of the Local Bike Shops (especially in the South East), that will be inundated with work nearer the date.  My chain is now due to be changed as it about 60% worn.

    My start time is 06.04 time, is there any one else in the team with an early start?

    Finally (time permitting), it would be nice to try and do a reccy of the Surrey loop of before the big day.  All I have done is just the uphill sections of Leith and Box Hill!

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