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@mustardbeak
Flitchbikes 200k. Well that was an eventful day.
Great route, very rural, rolling in parts, but nothing to worry about, 6745ft total climb for the route. Some gravelly sections which were a bit sketchy, but overall a great new route, it felt like I went hours without seeing a car in the afternoon. Rode the first 40k with another rider, but left him at the first control as I decided not to stop. Pushed on alone for the rest of the day, I wanted to finish in a good time to get back to London for a gig, and recently I have found if I am alone I tend to push the pace a bit harder.
Thanks to Tom for allowing me to enter on the line, and for accommodating me when I left my brevet card at the start, I realised at the first info! Decided I would just carry on and ride the route and not worry about the points, got to the first control and mentioned it and found he had phoned ahead and they had made me a paper sheet to fill out instead!
The heat was a killer yesterday I was struggling to keep on top of my water all day, I didn't use sunscreen and look like I have been on a two week holiday in the sun this morning.
After the ride finished I rode to Bishops Stortford to get a train back to London, found that all the trains were cancelled back to Liverpool Street, thought about riding but I didn't have a front light (note to self get dynamo lights sooner rather than later), I was not allowed to take my bike on the rail replacement service because jobsworth, so was advised to take a train to Cambridge and then to Kings Cross, by the time I had done that and waited between trains I didn't get home to Lewisham until 11:30pm (after leaving Great Dunmow at 6:30pm).
Despite the trains, I would recommend the route to others. Thoroughly enjoyable day out in the sunshine.
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