Ride London 100

What time did BoJo do it in then? Like anyone cares.

"A cycling version of the London marathon" is it fuck. A marathon is hard and needs training. Even my granny could ride 100 miles on a stick of rhubarb (with gears) and she's been dead for twenty years.

True, but would she finish it? She'd be directed off the course if she didn't flog her rhubarb around fast enough.

I think the marathon is harder than todays ride though- although please bear in mind that I've never run a full marathon.

True, but would she finish it? She'd be directed off the course if she didn't flog her rhubarb around fast enough.
.

She'd have done a 4hr39min!

She probably had her porridge.

She probably had her porridge.

Can't believe you didn't. #rookiemistake tis a bit early but you should still try to cram something in. Even if its something small like a zinger tower meal

Finito! Considering I've never ridden a road bike more than 20 miles in one go I'm pretty happy about my 5:25 time, though I had to pull over 6 times for cramps in both legs, (this was in the town where everyone was looking at me getting off my bike!!! oh the shame!!)

But hills were epic, loved the climbs with gears, also bumped into HMS at the finishing line! Well done with your time mate! So proud of you, I think you were in Chinatown later having dim sum with your family, but I might be wrong! :/

That was fucking mental. Never seen such a fast start (and middle, and end) on that kinda event. Spent the entire ride hopping from one train to another, and absolutely empty now. On the flip side, I knocked and hour and a half off my pb for a century- 5:10. Oh, and loved the whole closed roads things.

i think you managed to get me in that photo!

Riding on a car free Westway?!?!? WAHHHH... It should've been me!

Good luck all. Enjoy it

Cheers HMS!

5.15 says Strava for me. Would have been nice finding a group to roll with but kept hopping along so spent a lot of time in the wind.

Overtook Boris as he was puffing up Newlands Corner. I spotted a Rider Number #1 on a jersey and thought, 'Wonder who got that?'. A quick glance as I went past and there he was. Should have DAS'd him.

Best bits were the Westway, going through Richmond Park and looking ahead to see the whole peloton across the tall yellow grass - looked like the TdF - and then realising I had enough left in the legs for sprint on the mall.

Excellent Day Out, £1,700 raised for GOSH, and next a beer. Or Two. Or Three.

Nice work, hms.

Who was the rider doing it fixed/ss WITH a great big D-lock for good measure? Said hello, seemed very chipper.

Start, finish and Newlands are the only places that Johnson appears to have been seen. Curious.

She'd have done a 4hr39min!

I did it in 4hrs 38 minutes..
Didn't see any forumungers.
Really enjoyed it.

Especially having having an argument with some prick about my lack of effort up at the front. After telling me had 20 years of 'racing' experience - tried to drop me / failed. Then died shortly after newlands corner.

Yeah, that was me.
Sorry man, was in a hurry to get home before Tesco shut so I could by some ready made oven bake Yorkshire puddings.

What time did BoJo do it in then? Like anyone cares.

"A cycling version of the London marathon" is it fuck. A marathon is hard and needs training. Even my granny could ride 100 miles on a stick of rhubarb (with gears) and she's been dead for twenty years.

To be fair, plenty of useless fucks finish the marathon too. It just takes them 8 hours.

Presume BoJo did a Savile and hopped into a car after being filmed at the start so that he could then be filmed finishing. This is about photo ops not actual cycling.

He's so Tour de France 1906...

Official results are up: http://results.prudentialridelondon.co.uk/2013/?pid=search

I did it in 4hrs 38 minutes..
Didn't see any forumungers.
Really enjoyed it.

Especially having having an argument with some prick about my lack of effort up at the front. After telling me had 20 years of 'racing' experience - tried to drop me / failed. Then died shortly after newlands corner.

Lack of effort up the front? Hope you told him it was the sportive and not the race you were doing..

Couple of my clubmates did it, one got taken out, he managed 4:51 though.

Who 'won' the 'not a race'?

There are only losers in sportives, hippy.

Not me. 6 hours.

Who 'won' the 'not a race'?

"Wladimiro D’Ascenzo of Italy was first across the line in the Prudential RideLondon-Surrey 100, winning a 25-man bunch sprint by a wheel’s width from his countryman Rocco Castellucci."

From the Ride100 site.

Bloody Italians, coming over here, not winning our races.

Straight to the dope test >>>

"Wladimiro D’Ascenzo of Italy was first across the line in the Prudential RideLondon-Surrey 100, winning a 25-man bunch sprint by a wheel’s width from his countryman Rocco Castellucci."

From the Ride100 site.

Sprinting over the line in a sportive. The shame...

Bloody Italians, coming over here, winning our not races.

ftfy

He couldn't have won. It's not a race.

Blood test him now anyway.

To be fair the ice-cream he sold me after the sportive was very nice