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How do other people deal with awkward tiles and what are the greatest lengths you’ve gone to to capture them?
One of mine was got with some open water swimming:-
(OK, so it would be easy to get it by road, or a run round the lake, but it's more fun this way.
I've got a couple of others with a few "Oh, terribly sorry, I'm lost, can you help!"
Greenbank
Did my first ride specifically targeting a tile last week. Went for the single tile limiting my square to the west near Carterton, which it turns out is almost perfectly congruent with Brize Norton air base. I did a slightly sketchy commando raid down a private road to just nudge into the corner.
Many of my limiting tiles are pretty inaccessible, the tiles to the north will require relatively long cx bike rides followed by final footpath stretches, and today I’ll be going close to the southern tile near Abingdon but I think the only way to access that one would be a jaunt down the a34. There used to be a tt on that stretch (Chris Boardman set a comp record there in the 90s) but I don’t fancy riding there these days, even with quieter lockdown roads.
How do other people deal with awkward tiles and what are the greatest lengths you’ve gone to to capture them?