Ride London 100

Was lucky enough to start in wave A, was in the group following the lead motorbike most of the way. When you are ensconced in the peloton it's not too challenging, but had to work incredibly hard at various points to stay in contact after splits happened, on the climbs, or after corners. At one point I was in a 10-man break off the front, we got a gap of around 15 seconds, that was the easily the highlight. I finally got caught behind a split near the end and finished a minute or two down on the leaders.
3:26, 40.3km/h average speed, no stops.

List of crashes:

• Heard a massive tire blowout around 5km into the ride, with the rider crashing hard. Was just behind, lucky to avoid.
  
• Several riders coming to grief as the road narrowed near a bridge. As I passed I saw someone had gone into the stream / ditch.
  
• Pile up of around 5 riders involving traffic cones, was just able to slow down in time and go round it
  
• One or two riders overcooking it in corners and crashing. I skidded my rear wheel in one of the corners but saved it. Good old Conti 4 Season.