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Ride report (because i'm not bothering to do any work today)...
Rolled down to the start leaving Scott to continue his pissing-about trying to get ready. Bumped into Branwen just before arriving, which was cool. Good to have a catch-up, pal. Found the Party Peloton / Goofy Grupetto and hung around smoking fags and not being able to move for about an hour. Lost most forumengers after a few minutes, wacky races style, so CG and I decided to stop at the roundabout before Epping and gather-up a group again. Got a decent bunch together, but Tibbs was clearly partying hard somewhere in Hackney.
Epping Forest is shit.
Arrived at the scene of the downed rider. Glad to hear all is ok - a lot of people were discussing it over the course of the night. Rolled along bumping into various forumengers, which was nice. Stopped at a pub, Chainbreaker shouted a lot and took photos. Stopped at another pub, ate a sausage roll and saw some dogs. Stopped at the feed station, Gave Ludwig a tube, and ate beans from matching Thermos flasks with CG.
Rolled along some more felling pretty shit and wishing i'd remembered to bring my ipod and speaker. I remember sections with Fox, Branwen, Laner, Sumo, Samuelson etc, but really it's a bit of a blur. Saw Dancing James 100 times, ffs.
Last 20 miles was crap. The legs were still there, but I was very drowsy and feeling a bit fucko'd, so when I stopped to give CG my pump, I stacked it like a fool in the middle of the road. Got blood on my Rapha.
Rolled in, got changed into my jimjams on the beach, drank a bottle of wine at the pub, had a kip in the glorious pub garden, had a Sauna on the coach, arrived at Smithfields, cruised home.
Great ride and good company. Drifted off to sleep with the sound of Watson the Wonderdog howling for his master's return. It took me 30mins this morning to work out if it was 6pm or 6am :-/
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