• Suitably epic, the weather for the last hour helped. The hardest of the 3 EE I've done (though I wussed out of the 3200m of climbing on the Royal Rumble).

    My Edge 520 just about made it, brightness set to 0% and the bluetooth off but on the map screen most of the time (which doesn't help). Just over 11 hours in total from home in NE London, 8 hours moving.

    I had a thorn stuck in my tyre for the 20km, too scared to remove it incase the stans didn't do the job.

  • Lots of respect for anyone riding that on a cross bike: it's not so much that the trails are massively technical, it's just the focus required on some of those descents after having ridden a bike that long off-road. Much more lee-way for error with big tyres and some bounce.

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