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We were on this one too. Agree with the driving in Medway, especially around Rochester.
There were some good bits thou and it was cool to have the controls at the beach. Plus the weather was a nice surprise after I thought it was going to be cloudy all day.
What was the new town called that we went through later in the ride? It looked like it had been picked out of a "american town" catalogue.
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There were some good bits thou
Yeah my post was a bit too shitty, there were definitely good bits and bright sunny day!
What was the new town called that we went through later in the ride? It looked like it had been picked out of a "american town" catalogue.
Holborough Lakes, so strange!
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I must have been lucky with traffic on the way to the sea and thought the route was pretty interesting - someone had obviously spent a lot of time finding ways to string the least-bad roads together. Might have benefited from a 6am start.
I did see @Ruserius on the Isle of Grain but I was going the other way tucked in behind a wall of club riders hiding from the headwind.
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I'd entered The Way to the Sea 200 ages ago but haven't really been in the right frame of mind to do long rides for a while, start/finish on my doorstep and a sunny day forecast was enough to twist my arm. Route was ok, some unavoidable bits of main roads out and back to the Isle of Grain and Minster. Nasty headwind at times. Good to see @Ruserius at the Isle of Grain control, lost him soon after that when he powered off into the headwind.
Sadly the thing that will be seared into my memory from this one is cunt drivers. I like to think I've got reasonably thick skin for close passes and aggro but Medway has to be right up there with the highest concentration of vile human beings to have been granted driving licenses in the UK. So many instances of getting passed at 40, 50mph with the offside wheels of the car barely threatening the centre line. I almost sacked it off after the Kingsferry Bridge into the train station at Swale, I'd had enough of that shit. Let my nerves settle for a bit and pushed on; things did improve from there as the route got more laney and Birling Hill was a test!
Not in any rush to get back out there if I'm honest.