2013-04-13 - HHSB & Steel is Real ride to Brighton (9:30am Clapham South)

If I finish it in time, I'll be on road team.

I've got some slightly pricey bibs, don't fit over my thighs. Measure your knees and thighs, if they'll fit you I'll post them to you. They at autumn/spring bibs though, but thicker than standard lycra.

i shall do that sir.

when i broke my collar bone i lost like £150s worth of clothing to paramedics haha. such is life.

im in for a cambridge ride (put me on geared team. chaingang.)

they also cut my wrahw facesitter top in half ): all i could save was the logo on one sleeve

In for fast pace!

Some pics from before the heavens opening...

Busgate...

And then the rain!

Nice pics webof!

Thanks mate, whats the max pixel size you can embed? Wanted to get one of the group ones a bit bigger!

Found these scrolling back through further, the poster for the start turned out to be a bit of a correct prediction...

Sorry to say, but this is the sort of thing you should make clear to the ride leader/organiser beforehand. I know you weren't expecting it to kick in or affect you, but noone could have known that beforehand. That is not just the case of HTFU, that is a medical condition.

Not sure how organised this ride is considered in the eyes of the law, but from both parts, better safe than sorry.

No more organised than a ride with a group of friends (legally speaking) has been the consensus when this has been discussed before. We've never asked for/shared medical info before a forum ride, and I'm not sure I'd know what to do with it if people shared it (I'm not a doctor!), other than worry...

It's a challenge on such a big ride to keep it together without marshals. Standard forum ride drill is to designate a backstop, who should be ideally be a more experienced/stronger rider and known/trusted by the leader. This means you don't have to worry about them, you'll realise if they're not there and you'll probably already have their mobile number if you forget to take it.

sounds like not eating enough is it, especially if everything from after lunch was a bit blurry.

@dakin Sorry to hear about your incident. Did you bonk? You normally get some warnings: serious lack of energy, dizziness, not being hungry/thirsty even if you needed it, grouchiness/irrationality? At the extreme end, hallucinations? To pass out without any pretty serious warning signs would be unusual and suggest another factor at work.

I just rode home from the south bank in just a t-shirt, its like the weather yesterday never happened. So strange.

Global warming innit.

Grouchiness and irrationality? I must live in a permanent state of bonk.

I was going to write extreme grouchiness and irrationality, but then thought better of it. That's what I meant though really.

went GP today and have been referred to the neuro unit.
see what turns up anyway

Ok, you never know man there could be worse things going on in there.

You had a full scan yet?

in the past i had all the works.
had a ct from head to pelvis on saturday night.

will probably have more full scans (MRI, ECG, CT) over next few months and blood tests and all. who knows.
better safe than sorry though

Definitely mate, passing out at random times can mean some really nasty shit, I'm sure you'll be ok but as you've said, better safe than sorry!

Did you only eat a chocolate bar the whole day Joss?

nah nah. big ol breaky.
4 bananas or so and some chocolates.

oh and them flapajacks

dem flapjacks were amazing, I need the recipe. In fact, I need to rep seven for them...

You pleb
Definitely not eating properly

they spend everything on spokes.

A lack of

Mmmm as a matter of fact I am chewing on one of Jacks Flaps right at this moment

fnar

Mmmm as a matter of fact I am chewing on one of Jacks Flaps right at this moment

I will come to your work and steal more.

You pleb
Definitely not eating properly

this. you wouldnt put 2 stroke fuel in a ferrari