The Richmond Park 3-Lap Challenge

I hate riding in Richmond Park.

It's like some cop out "here have this park to ride around, oh but every cunt in their X5 is also there spendy more time waving phones at deer than looking at the road".

Anyway, skinny's at the top of the list and likely to stay there until someone decent goes full TT at it.

If only Millar had known to do 3 laps instead of 1

https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/millar-sets-richmond-park-time-trial-record-51396

A CS Grupetto did 46:38, his lap times were 15:08, 15:55, 15:35

It's gotta be one of two people, coz it sure as shit wasn't me and are either of them riding nowadays?

Since this has been revived, my goal now is to get the missus around sub-1hr. No, she's not using the Shiv. Serves her right for buying a tank.

EPO-fueled laps don't count. Beer-fueled laps count double.

Well, having taken 5 years off the bike and ballooning he's started riding again, shed almost all the weight and is doing the Cent Cols with me next year.

That's good to hear. I don't think I'd cope with that much time off the bike.

What's the go with Cent Cols? 100 cols?

The Latin root word “cent” which means “one hundred” and the prefix centi- which means “one-hundredth” are both important morphemes in the English language. Some examples of words that derive from both this word root and prefix include percent, cent, centiliter, and centigram.

U bin ludwigged

alright, Tester

Sounding intelligent and answering the question asked are two very different things of course. I'll wait.

Yeah, 100 cols in France. Southern Alps.

In one go or is it over stages? How long is that gonna take?

10 stages. Usually around 200k and 5,000m of climbing. Rest day in the middle.

Sounds well cool (so long as it doesn't involve trying to keep up with a bunch of race whippets)

Adding a fixed time.. lovely wind up sawyers.

Skinny - 50:20 (G)
onyerbike - 50:56 (G)
6pt - 52:31 (G)
spinnnout - 52:52 (G)
6pt - 53:20 (F - 84")
lreilly - 53:47 (G)
Brain-Stew - 53.53 (G)
Bainbridge - 53.57 (G)
woodsalexis - 54.00 (G)
Eyebrows- 54:31 (G)
BlakeG - 54.39 (G)
spinnnout - 54:49 (F - 83")
Harpoonist - 55.06 (F - 86")
Hovis - 55.17 (G)
Eyebrows- 55:25 (F-77")
Elswick - 55.31 (G)
Blue Fleet - 55.39 (G)
KDense - 55.43 (G)
.gaz. - 55.44 (F - 81")
BringMeMyFix - 55.55 (F - 78.9")
Hazzles - 56.08 (G)
Erik Jonsson - 56:15 (G)
Bouncy - 56:21 (G)
amey - 56:31 (G)
vunugu - 56.32 (G)
TheArchitect - 56:33 (G)
bmx_fred - 56.48 (G)
Jacobjd - 57:02 (F - 90")
Chadders81 - 57.13(G)
Sasmon 57.15 (G)
umop3pisdn 57:34. (G)
Moserism 57:44 (G)
spinnnout 58:01 (F - 76.2")
IAmNotARobot - 58.13 (G)
Sam - 58:38 (G)
inappropriate_bike - 58:38:23 (G)
dancing james - 58.39 (G)
Glanton - 58.39 (F - 74.2")
iltmimi - 58:53 (G)
Vince - 59:10 (G)
_BW - 59:20 (F 77.3)
joe smiff - 59:21 (G)
FixedCheese - 59:23 (G)
chris0 - 59.26 (G)
T-V - 59.30 (G)
adoubletap - 59.30 (G)
Glanton - 59:35 (G)
jim1985 - 59:39 (G)
Damo - 59:39 (G)
Commie - 59:40 (G)
cgg - 59:41 (F - 77.1")
FixedCheese - 59:42 (F - 74")
toby.d - 1:00:14 (G)
Pharoahsanders - 1:00.15 (G)
Howard - 1:00:39 (G)
Greeno - 1:00:39 (G)
Bouncy - 1:00:54 (F - 72")
william1984 - 1:00:59 (G)
Olly398 - 1:01:00 (G)
Sacredhart- 1:01.01 (G)
PhilDAS 1:01:31 (G)
TeddyUK 1:01:55 (G)
youramericanlover - 1:00 (F - 81")
villa-ru - 1:02:03 (G)
vunugu - 1:02:50 (F - 79.6")
mississippi - 1:03:06 (G)
shinkuu kiss - 1:03:26 (G)
Rod Munch - 1:03:32 (G)
edscoble - 1:03:45 (G)
dysar - 1:03:48 (F - 76")
Wrongcog - 1:03:54 (G)
Ordinata - 1:04:15 (G)
willski - 1:04:30 (F - 76")
laner-1:04:45 (G)
edscoble - 1:04:50 (SS)
Doutzki - 1:04:59 (F - 75.5")
Sandy_l - 1:05:28 (G)
Yukirin - 1:06:12 (G)
smiff - 1:06:15 (F - 67")
Sparky - 1:06:19 (G)
Damo - 1:07:06 (F)
Bris - 1:08:18 (G)
Balders - 1:09:28 (F - 48:16)
dbr - 1:09:36 (G)
Greenbank - 1:09:54 (G)
dst - 1:10:17 (G)
villa-ru - 1:11:04 (F - 68")
Greenbank 1:11:48 (F - 67")
Sparky - 1:12:05 (F - 48:18)

What's riding in RP like these days with the traffic changes? Worth going or massively avoiding on weekends?

Surprisingly ok, half the road closed, not sure if it’s permanent but it mean more drivers using the western part of the road more often.

Go on weekday, it’s quieter.

Richmond is great and I feel we should all be more appreciative of having a seven mile training loop with a couple of ( slight ) climbs on our doorstep …. Yes , it can be full of choppers / straight out of Evans wankers … but , you can do twenty mile an hour loops ( ? ! ) or pootle around taking in the greenery , scenery and the deer …. Tops … !

It's lovely before 6:40 which is when they open the gates to cars.

Just been out for a lunchtime spin and managed 2 laps in 38:25 fixed on 77".

Had my eye on three laps sub an hour since I first saw this thread about a decade ago, but have never got round to giving it a go when in half decent shape. Looks like i've got some time in the bank to grovel up sawyers a third time when I do give it a bash.

Went today for the first time in forever. Drivers all stuck to the speed limit, what?!?! It seems much more chill than pre-panini. Also, saw Fred Wright... I dropped him on Dark hill but he dropped me on the downhill, the fat bastard

Traffic is pretty bad in general at the moment. I haven't had a clear run from Richmond to Kingston gate in months.

Some of these times blow my mind. Will have to give it a go early one morning when it's dry... So next summer?

Did a 108.00 evening ride.
Skinny - 50:20 (G)
onyerbike - 50:56 (G)
6pt - 52:31 (G)
spinnnout - 52:52 (G)
6pt - 53:20 (F - 84")
lreilly - 53:47 (G)
Brain-Stew - 53.53 (G)
Bainbridge - 53.57 (G)
woodsalexis - 54.00 (G)
Eyebrows- 54:31 (G)
BlakeG - 54.39 (G)
spinnnout - 54:49 (F - 83")
Harpoonist - 55.06 (F - 86")
Hovis - 55.17 (G)
Eyebrows- 55:25 (F-77")
Elswick - 55.31 (G)
Blue Fleet - 55.39 (G)
KDense - 55.43 (G)
.gaz. - 55.44 (F - 81")
BringMeMyFix - 55.55 (F - 78.9")
Hazzles - 56.08 (G)
Erik Jonsson - 56:15 (G)
Bouncy - 56:21 (G)
amey - 56:31 (G)
vunugu - 56.32 (G)
TheArchitect - 56:33 (G)
bmx_fred - 56.48 (G)
Jacobjd - 57:02 (F - 90")
Chadders81 - 57.13(G)
Sasmon 57.15 (G)
umop3pisdn 57:34. (G)
Moserism 57:44 (G)
spinnnout 58:01 (F - 76.2")
IAmNotARobot - 58.13 (G)
Sam - 58:38 (G)
inappropriate_bike - 58:38:23 (G)
dancing james - 58.39 (G)
Glanton - 58.39 (F - 74.2")
iltmimi - 58:53 (G)
Vince - 59:10 (G)
_BW - 59:20 (F 77.3)
joe smiff - 59:21 (G)
FixedCheese - 59:23 (G)
chris0 - 59.26 (G)
T-V - 59.30 (G)
adoubletap - 59.30 (G)
Glanton - 59:35 (G)
jim1985 - 59:39 (G)
Damo - 59:39 (G)
Commie - 59:40 (G)
cgg - 59:41 (F - 77.1")
FixedCheese - 59:42 (F - 74")
toby.d - 1:00:14 (G)
Pharoahsanders - 1:00.15 (G)
Howard - 1:00:39 (G)
Greeno - 1:00:39 (G)
Bouncy - 1:00:54 (F - 72")
william1984 - 1:00:59 (G)
Olly398 - 1:01:00 (G)
Sacredhart- 1:01.01 (G)
PhilDAS 1:01:31 (G)
TeddyUK 1:01:55 (G)
youramericanlover - 1:00 (F - 81")
villa-ru - 1:02:03 (G)
vunugu - 1:02:50 (F - 79.6")
mississippi - 1:03:06 (G)
shinkuu kiss - 1:03:26 (G)
Rod Munch - 1:03:32 (G)
edscoble - 1:03:45 (G)
dysar - 1:03:48 (F - 76")
Wrongcog - 1:03:54 (G)
Ordinata - 1:04:15 (G)
willski - 1:04:30 (F - 76")
laner-1:04:45 (G)
edscoble - 1:04:50 (SS)
Doutzki - 1:04:59 (F - 75.5")
Sandy_l - 1:05:28 (G)
Yukirin - 1:06:12 (G)
smiff - 1:06:15 (F - 67")
Sparky - 1:06:19 (G)
Damo - 1:07:06 (F)
Billygoat28 -108.00(G)
Bris - 1:08:18 (G)
Balders - 1:09:28 (F - 48:16)
dbr - 1:09:36 (G)
Greenbank - 1:09:54 (G)
dst - 1:10:17 (G)
villa-ru - 1:11:04 (F - 68")
Greenbank 1:11:48 (F - 67")
Sparky - 1:12:05 (F - 48:18)