112k charity TTT batterfest and weekend road trip, 12th May - who's in?

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112k charity TTT batterfest and weekend road trip, 12th May - who's in?

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Started 3 months ago by Paul
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Paul
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Fancy a combination of hard training, interesting roads, cameraderie and a bit of a road trip?

As I mentioned at the AGM I've been doing a 112k charity ride for the last few years, on a circuit starting from Windsor near London.

This year I've been asked to organise a team of riders to do it. So it occurred to me to see how many VC Beverley members I could get interested in it.

Because a) it's a long way to travel for a ride and b) no-one is going to sponsor us for doing a ride that's no harder than a club run, here's the suggested format:

* Team time trial - basically we ride the whole distance as a fast chaingang, aiming to get round as fast as possible, say in 3.5 hours or less. (I did it in 4:08 on fixed gear, solo, last year so that should be doable). We base the sponsorship request around how fast we get round - all suggestions welcome as to how to do this!

* Camping, BBQ, beers etc. - to keep costs down and make a weekend out of it I suggest finding a nearby campsite, organising some barbies etc. and making a bit of an afternoon/evening of it on the Saturday. We'd need to drive down Friday (the ride starts Sat AM early) and then we could head back Sunday. Alternatively we could drive back up to Beverley Saturday PM then go for a curry. Hiring a minibus would prob be easiest.

Anyway this post is to gauge interest and see what sort of chaingang we might be able to organise - post if you're interested and/or have questions/suggestions.

Posted 3 months ago #
Matt28
Member

Yep, count me in. Camping and BBQ sounds good to me.

Posted 3 months ago #
Ben B
Member

Yep, Count me in. 112k chaingang sounds good to me.

Posted 3 months ago #
Dutchy
Member

Would love to have done that but as usual I'm at work DOH!

Posted 3 months ago #
Nat
Member

If i dont get into lincoln i defo wana do this

Posted 3 months ago #
Rich
Member

How hilly is the circuit Paul?

With yourself Ben and Nat in the team I would be expecting sub 3hr.
Matt you best lay off the beers on Friday night.

What's it in aid of? What about setting up a "just giving" page like Paul Rymer did for his coast to coast trip, in the details section you could have a sliding scale of sponsorship, sub 3hr being the jackpot time and then break it down from there in 5 min intervals gradually decreasing. It would provide good motivation on the way around trying to work out how much you might lose if you take it easier on a hill.

Posted 3 months ago #
Ben B
Member

I'm not adverse to premier inn's or even travel lodges, I will even camp on occasion as long as the motorhomes at least 25ft with satelite tv. Seriously I don't mind camping but would prefer a premier inn just for the massive breakfast and good nights sleep, I'd probably spend more money camping than at travel inn as well. I think the weekend could be epic.

Posted 3 months ago #
Paul
Key Master

Right, some more info:

Route is here, I suspect it will be the same:

http://www.bikeroutetoaster.com/Course.aspx?course=240417

Nearly 900m of ascent although my Garmin recorded 1100m. So there's some decent climbing in it. It's a really excellent route, actually, with some big long (and short sharp) climbs, a monster fast 12k of continuous descent into Henley and at the end a long, flat wide section so you can really batter it back into Windsor Great Park.

It's in aid of a domestic violence charity called Standing Together http://www.standingtogether.org.uk/ - a mate got me roped into their inaugural ride a few years ago.

I like the idea of the 'sliding scale' justgiving page - top idea!

Ben, as to accommodation - perhaps we should do Premier Inn on the Friday night (we prob won't get down there till mid evening anyway) and the event starts quite early, I think 0830 or something. Then we could while away the rest of Saturday chilling out somewhere and camp on the Sat night. Or something.

Posted 3 months ago #
PaulR
Member

I would be up for this, just need to check if anything else is happening that weekend first though

Posted 3 months ago #
gorgeous-gaz
Member

Just checked my work schedule and am off this weekend, i have to speak to my sports prevention officer, but its either this or the road race at kippax and this sounds like loads more fun! I'll keep you posted!

Posted 3 months ago #
gsk82
Member

sounds like you can put together 2 rival teams for this

Posted 3 months ago #
Rich V
Member

Any progress on this batterfest down south? I now have a pass out from the wife...

Posted 1 month ago #
Paul
Key Master

Cheers for reminder Rich, yes it's still on.

Can I have a final show of hands and I'll try to get it organised?

Posted 1 month ago #
Matt28
Member

I'm still up for it.

Posted 1 month ago #
Matt28
Member

I think I may have to bow out of this. I have far too much work on to be going away over the weekend.

Hope this won't cause any issues.

Posted 2 weeks ago #
Paul
Key Master

Funny you should mention this Matt I was thinking whether I can manage it too.

I've still not made any formal plans for it with two weeks to go, apologies for anyone who may have it in the diary. Just been too busy as well.

I could do without the time commitment really, but if there remain a few individuals who still fancy it we'll go - I should be able to take the 'team car' (max 5 bikes/riders), we camp/Travelodge Friday night nr. Windsor, batter it round and get back to Beverley for teatime on Sat.

If anyone is mad to do it, let me know - otherwise I'll make a donation to the charity anyway and we do a bangin' hard club run on the Sunday to make up for it.

Posted 2 weeks ago #

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