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set a high pace from Trondheim
make everyone work on the front 30% longer than you but attack on the hillz, show them who is boss silence at the feed stations sends the message that you are not pleased with team's performance accept no cakes, gifts what so ever treat the squad like huskies remain distant as leader -
Roll off at the start looking suspiciusly at your rear mech.
Hang at the back of a group, swearing under your breath, while still examining bike.
As Things thin out, stay at the back, dribble a little, and shake head a lot.
Look desparate, and defeated, at feed stations.
Accept any offerings of Food and water, from the concerned cyclists around you.Explode from the pack, on a miraculous second Wind, grind the fatigued to dust, Dance a victory jig through their tears on the finish line.
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http://www.styrkeproven.no/oppslag?a=22097
Confirmation of start times, I'm still keen for a start around 0900 on Saturday.
Giving us 27hours to complete. -
http://www.styrkeproven.no/oppslag?a=22097
Confirmation of start times, I'm still keen for a start around 0900 on Saturday.
Giving us 27hours to complete.I have a flight 16:05 from Gardermoen. So also keen for a 09:00 start. 27 hours means I still have 4 hours to change, pack, and travel to the airport.
I dont want to cycle home after.
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Update. I've booked my hotel. Rica was unsurprisingly full. So I'm in the Best Western Nova hotel some 400m away.
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I'm down as - pulje 0946 20-24.
Pretty sure that was the earliest it would allow me to register.
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SF, we are at the Best Western Thursday night.. I haven't told the guys that we are sleeping on the floor of the Rica Friday night yet..
also Rica has the best breakfast in the world..Stu, I'm sure Ingar and his team will have your details from last year..
I cant really afford the time off work. So I'm taking a half day Friday and travelling up then. I land 15:00, so plenty of time to meet up for a bite to eat or something.
Basically I have too many bike events planned.
Not sure if you guys are Reading/ looking at the PDF mag they send out. But the last had an ad for aarbakerittet. Been looking at that road for a while. Its now been chalked onto the 2014 schedual.
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saw pictures of serious looking people training and looking tough. Decided fuck that and went to buy some beer and maltesers. I feel ready.
Meh. Let them come With their coordinated kit and serious faces.
All the easier to fake weakness and sit behind them......
......munching Malteasers.
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Al, we need to get together soon. Make final plans etc.
I saw the pdf newsletter thing yesterday, couldn't understand any of it, saw pictures of serious looking people training and looking tough. Decided fuck that and went to buy some beer and maltesers. I feel ready.
no worries mister..
when I get back from Flanders 11 May..
let's hook up, also easy on the maltesers fellas
I don't want you peaking too soon.
Al -
Flying to Oslo Friday morning (taking my bike there this Thursday) - Train from Oslo at 10pm ish... arrives Trondheim 06:50 on sat - think my start time is 08:30 bosh... Flying back Tuesday night with Ryanair and my bike in a CTC bag!
I've been doing nothing but sitting on my arse drinking beer for the last 6 months so not planning to break any records :-)
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Tricky to train for this. As far as I can tell I'm as ready as I can be. Just seem to require a lot of water as the km's rack up.
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Startnummer: 1021 !!!
The train i was going to get is full of bikes and sleepers - they were nice and gave me refund. I might have to go a few days earlier now by plane - the bike is currently in a Oslo shop getting new chain and cassette (went for orig part - ultegra) rather than chinese, only because it's a new years (mid-summer) resolution to take care of it... don't ask about the cost.... (looked it up on wiggle after and my colleague has the tool - it's going to be a stinger). Last Thursday I took a jaunt up from Rygge to Oslo (20quid flight - 50 quid for bike,dumped the CTC bag in the bin and started riding) minus pedal tool (6 quid to return the confiscated tool 4 days later - hand luggage mistake) - luckily a nice man in Moss cycle shop sorted me out with tightening. Garmin (800) factory reset & update prior to leaving london gave it a fresh lease of life - using it as a mapper/router was amazing, i can't stress how f'ing awesome it was. Took national route 7 from openstreepmap site (moss-trondheim gpx download takes a while to load though, obvs only went to oslo). You're not supposed to cycle on the pavement in norway but with the volume of shared pavements and switching road sides it's really tricky to work out sometimes if you're still ok or not. Basically follow the route into towns then get on the road in my advise (but avoid tunnels - i did only because i didn't trust them - these days they have motorway slip roads exits etc...).
http://www.strava.com/activities/154426229 (even ended up going too far in the end)
Day after I went up to Holmenkollen (took some pics hence slow speed... :-) ) then to the beach ish oddly empty!
http://www.strava.com/activities/154426208
That afternoon trip was all by the built in routing in the garmin (set to "by shortest distance") and was effing great - almost zero traffic on a friday late afternoon!!!
Weather was amazing!! and had been apparently for quite a while - as the bike shop guy said, it was a bit different from the 400km in the rain from last year - so fingers crossed guys that the weather continues!!
Pop quiz: How much is a chain and cassette fitting in Norway?? (shimano/ultegra 10sp).
p.s. i am sooooo unfit - i will without joking be lucky to finish (hoping mental strength will see me through).
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Spin through Lillehammer has been removed from the route this year..I am disappoint.
The marshals were amazing and gorgeous, also the descent out of the town..
Looks like more lake shore riding instead..There seems to have been a lot of pressure from both the police and the road authorities. I feel for the organisers TBH. The rockets teams all seem pretty pissed that they cant have any support. The was a big crash (as you can imagine With these teams being so big and riding so tightly) in a warm up event. Which was sorted pretty quickly because there so many support cars that could help. With only a few neutral cars for styrkeprøven. I get the impression the teams feel its unsafe. I suspect that the annoyance is largely Down to the effect it'll have on finish times too though.
Startnummer: 1021 !!!
The train i was going to get is full of bikes and sleepers - they were nice and gave me refund. I might have to go a few days earlier now by plane - the bike is currently in a Oslo shop getting new chain and cassette (went for orig part - ultegra) rather than chinese, only because it's a new years (mid-summer) resolution to take care of it... don't ask about the cost.... (looked it up on wiggle after and my colleague has the tool - it's going to be a stinger). Last Thursday I took a jaunt up from Rygge to Oslo (20quid flight - 50 quid for bike,dumped the CTC bag in the bin and started riding) minus pedal tool (6 quid to return the confiscated tool 4 days later - hand luggage mistake) - luckily a nice man in Moss cycle shop sorted me out with tightening. Garmin (800) factory reset & update prior to leaving london gave it a fresh lease of life - using it as a mapper/router was amazing, i can't stress how f'ing awesome it was. Took national route 7 from openstreepmap site (moss-trondheim gpx download takes a while to load though, obvs only went to oslo). You're not supposed to cycle on the pavement in norway but with the volume of shared pavements and switching road sides it's really tricky to work out sometimes if you're still ok or not. Basically follow the route into towns then get on the road in my advise (but avoid tunnels - i did only because i didn't trust them - these days they have motorway slip roads exits etc...).
http://www.strava.com/activities/154426229 (even ended up going too far in the end)
Day after I went up to Holmenkollen (took some pics hence slow speed... :-) ) then to the beach ish oddly empty!
http://www.strava.com/activities/154426208
That afternoon trip was all by the built in routing in the garmin (set to "by shortest distance") and was effing great - almost zero traffic on a friday late afternoon!!!
Weather was amazing!! and had been apparently for quite a while - as the bike shop guy said, it was a bit different from the 400km in the rain from last year - so fingers crossed guys that the weather continues!!
Pop quiz: How much is a chain and cassette fitting in Norway?? (shimano/ultegra 10sp).
p.s. i am sooooo unfit - i will without joking be lucky to finish (hoping mental strength will see me through).
Parts in Norway are resonable if you buy them from somewhere like Bikeshop.no, or some of the bigger cities. Its over £10 for a fecking quick link where I am though. So I steer well Clear of my LBS's.
I have all the Tools you'd need to do this. I'd personally fit the Chain With a quick link anyway. But Shimano Chains are eassy to fit without. If you want me to do this Friday night its no problem. Probably a 10 minute job.
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I'm 1243 by the way.
I'm in great shape, and thankful to have a solo 215km ride under my belt. But 542km still feels insane. What worrys me most is the climate. Only takes a bit of rain for Things to turn from gorgeous ride, to a painful slog.
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i am startnummer 1388..
SF we (esstee/Rob/Almac) land at Trondheim around midnight Thu/Fri with bike boxes,
i recall a £100 taxi ride last year from the airport..
any assistance greatly appreciated if you know anyone who can collect us..
along with Jack Daniels til dawn.. actually there is no dawn..
The ride's gonna hurt alot, that's all i can promise.. i'd be happy just to finish..Kristian I have spare links SRAM I'll pack them all..
Al -
I still don't have a start no, but Morten said he's sorting it out.
I've decided to bring my surly pacer commuter, as I've done several 200+ km rides on it and I'm comfy on it. I took the caad10 for a short spin last night:
http://www.strava.com/activities/155226401
........and it battered me.
Comfort is a prioirty for this one I think.
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i am startnummer 1388..
SF we (esstee/Rob/Almac) land at Trondheim around midnight Thu/Fri with bike boxes,
i recall a £100 taxi ride last year from the airport..
any assistance greatly appreciated if you know anyone who can collect us..
along with Jack Daniels til dawn.. actually there is no dawn..
The ride's gonna hurt alot, that's all i can promise.. i'd be happy just to finish..Kristian I have spare links SRAM I'll pack them all..
AlI'll have a think. But I dont really know anyone up there well enough to ask them to do a midnight airport run.
The last buss is 23:50, costs 130 nok per person, and take 35mins.
http://www.flybussen.no/en/Trondheim
Trains dont seem to run so late.
I still don't have a start no, but Morten said he's sorting it out.
I've decided to bring my surly pacer commuter, as I've done several 200+ km rides on it and I'm comfy on it. I took the caad10 for a short spin last night:
http://www.strava.com/activities/155226401
........and it battered me.
Comfort is a prioirty for this one I think.
All my Equipment chioces are based on speed. I intend to be so fast I finish before discomfort kicks in. Much like rushing a paint job, splattering Paint everywhere. In an attempt to finish before you run out.
Excellent logic.
Seriously though. They had ground the top layer of tamac off 90% of the roads in the Bergen - Voss race. I had pumped my tyres to 120 PSI by accident (weird pocket track pump thingie). Discovered we were late. Then subsequently forgot to take any air out. Remembered clearly when we were in a 40kph+ pace line going over the worse of it. Wishing for a slow puncture. How do People race on cobles? I genuinely thought I'd lose some teeth when I needed hold a bottle in my mouth mid drink to allow me to hold the bars With both hands.
I have some larger casing tubs in Storage specifically for this. But as the ones on my Wheels have enough life in them. I cant be bothered to swap them.
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This runs untill 23:55.
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I spent sunday being dropped on anything over 5%, busting my arse bridging back, only to be dropped on the next Climb, having to bridge.....ad infinium.
I did eat *all *the cakes at the open bakery we found.
Ballast for the descents I needed to smash, to compensate for my shite climbing.
Thats Logic right there.