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@jochta
That's nothing compared to what we dealt with on The Poor Student in January!!
Good ride even if the route sheet was a bit random at times! I finished the 200km at 6.40pm still feeling strong. Ride out to Quainton was awesome with a great control. Riding through Oxford, Abingdon and Didcot to Chilton I was on auto-pilot as I know all of those roads. I got taken out by a motorist on The Plain in Oxford who decided not to give way to the right, no damage to me or bike thankfully.
I had lunch at home near Abingdon which was a nice way to break the ride up into two halves and therefore missed the reported huge delays at the Head of the River.
High Wycombe was navigationally challenging. As was the section after Burnham Beeches where the route sheet didn't seem to bear any relationship to reality at all!
The Uxbridge Road was unpleasant in the dusk. Not sure what we were meant to see in Southall, the last info control was in a housing estate. Managed to group up with a local who led me back to Ruislip otherwise I might have been tearing my hair out trying to find my way back in the dark.
The pub at the end was pretty much deserted, I've seen a few comments about it but I didn't linger, got my card stamped and went home.
Easily my fastest 200km so far but it is the first one I've done when it hasn't been a) blowing a gale and/or b) pouring with rain and/or c) starting and finishing in the dark and/or d) cycling through 12" of floodwater.
Look forward to doing it again, hopefully with a slightly less complicated and proofread routesheet ;)
Cheers
John