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That was a tough day out!
Fantastic route though, lots of lovely lanes, pretty villages and 2 visits to the seaside (I only had 1 ice cream though, breaking my personal rule of any visit to the seaside needing an ice cream).
Bastard hard on fixed - especially as I was rather overconfident and ran 71" for the first 130km (what I ran for PBP without issue). I knew that was too big for me on that sort of terrain, but was too stupid to listen to myself and run lower from the start. Flipped to 67" at Seaford and life became a lot easier, but my legs were already shot, so it was a very hard 170km to the end, especially combined with having got up at 3:30 to ride over. Slowness meant it was too late for a train home, so another ride across town to home - never a fan of riding through london on a Saturday night, especially when tired.
Great day out though and massive thanks to AC Hackney, especially Ivan for organising and Tim and Adam for braving the wind to stamp cards at the seaside.
Lots of bits hurt today. But pleased to have done my first properly hilly longer ride on fixed.