Great reading all the accounts and seeing the fantastic pictures, hard to believe it's over two weeks ago already. Nice meeting (and drinking with!) some of you (including but not limited to) Dead_bob, Mr Spintoofast and Snapper 65.
As this dimwit who wanted to do the 135k route ignored the instructions and everyone's advice about an early start and subsequently missed the 8am deadline (when I was still attending to the breakfast buffet at the hotel!) I was pleased to see Tika's quote about the amount of climbing on the 75k being as much as the 135k. Despite only doing the 75k it was still a great day and it was quite hard work in that heat.
Hopefully see you all there again next year for more sunshine and Chianti!
Hi all,
Great reading all the accounts and seeing the fantastic pictures, hard to believe it's over two weeks ago already. Nice meeting (and drinking with!) some of you (including but not limited to) Dead_bob, Mr Spintoofast and Snapper 65.
As this dimwit who wanted to do the 135k route ignored the instructions and everyone's advice about an early start and subsequently missed the 8am deadline (when I was still attending to the breakfast buffet at the hotel!) I was pleased to see Tika's quote about the amount of climbing on the 75k being as much as the 135k. Despite only doing the 75k it was still a great day and it was quite hard work in that heat.
Hopefully see you all there again next year for more sunshine and Chianti!
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