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Rode a 100 miles of the Epic Echappée fixed on my Pomp on Wednesday. These Sunday Echappée guys blog write-up is a bit OTT but when it comes to route planning they are fucking boss. It's a standard run out from Richmond into Surrey but swiftly headed onto gravel, single and double tracks of packed dirt bridleways with longer sections of tarmac between them. They used the off-road stuff to connect out-of-the way lanes and perfectly paved private farm roads so most of it was traffic free and beautiful - it was so, so much fun. All the gravel. 35mm fixed was a serious laugh but I was out of the saddle a lot, probably too much really because I had to chop off a 15km nubbin out in Kent and miss out Beddlestead on the way back in. I was so broken after going up the butthole end of Toys that I had to walk half of Brasted Hill. I might try it again single speed some time, I might make it all the way around that way as the sharp downhills on 66gi was getting to me by the end.
https://www.strava.com/activities/639703624
This technically happened on Wednesday but as I had the day off it counts as a weekend ride for me.