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Did the Ride 46 with my girlfriend. I really enjoyed cruising around on the closed roads, she really didn't enjoy it. About halfway through she told me it was worse than running a marathon. Think the bike fit was the problem rather than fitness and I couldn't get her to sit on my wheel to block the wind as she was worried about riding into the back of me. Caught up to a lot of knackered looking people who were still struggling through which was impressive to see.
She got a second wind at the point where the 46 and 100 joined up, I think the pressure of missing the cut-off was off and there was a lot more support and a lot more cyclists at that point (we'd started in the last wave so there hadn't been that many people around us).
Came in under 4 hours which is roughly what I was aiming for, saw very little dick cycling even when we joined up with the 100 mile riders who were still belting along at 80 miles and clearly looking for a time.
The 46 route was pretty nice as an introductory long ride, think I only came out of the big chainring twice.