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I came in at 7:03. That's not too shabby for a ride way over my normal distances, solo except for two solid 15min bouts of bunch riding and stopping at every food station to maintain my 'fatness' (and I still lost ~6kg!!).
My average speed was 28 something so ride time was under around 6.30-6.40 which was pretty bloody good for a lardy sprinter type like me.
As someone else commented about, I took a rain jacket thingie and didn't put it on the whole ride. It rained and people were faffing about with clothing by the roadside but the showers only lasted 2min at most.
With riding from home to Greenwich and home I ended up with 237.5k for the day which is the most I've ever done in a single day. Was a good ride. Nice. I like.
OnT: I saw one fixed rider and was glad I was geared. I was riding pretty hard and was cramping like a mofo up the hills. Ow!