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julietMile 116: Made it! arr 0840, so just outside 12hrs (would have been within were it not for wrong turn leading to 3mi detour), & within my self-imposed 9am deadline. Currently queuing for breakfast.
The sun came out as I turned down the Dunwich road - cycling across the heath in sunshine, lovely. Before that it was largely vile - just after last update it started raining again, & then pissed it down for maybe an hour. And stayed cold & nasty after that until 20min ago.
Also, which sod told me Suffolk was flat? Trust me, it is not. It has Hills. Mind you, by the last 15mi, anything on more of an incline than absolute flatness felt like a vast & hideous hill. Not assisted by the absence of not only all my lower gears, but the lowest of the middle set. And the second lowest I had to hold in place.
Knees still intact but achey; legs are going to *hurt* tomorrow; back needs stretching out.
So: would I do it again? Yes. It wasn't as hard as I'd feared (though the last 30mi was toughish & the last 15 really very tough - though was still quite happy when on the flat). and I'm feeling v pleased with myself right now. I'd like to do it in decent weather - it was pretty foul. I'd like to do it with fully functioning gears! It wd be interesting to do it with someone else - though I actually really enjoyed being on my own (& you do get to chat to people along the way, & repeatedly encounter the same folk as you leapfrog each other).
And I didn't get a puncture, hurrah!
Av: tbc, left odometer on bike.
The sun came out as I turned down the Dunwich road - cycling across the heath in sunshine, lovely. Before that it was largely vile - just after last update it started raining again, & then pissed it down for maybe an hour. And stayed cold & nasty after that until 20min ago.
Also, which sod told me Suffolk was flat? Trust me, it is not. It has Hills. Mind you, by the last 15mi, anything on more of an incline than absolute flatness felt like a vast & hideous hill. Not assisted by the absence of not only all my lower gears, but the lowest of the middle set. And the second lowest I had to hold in place.
Knees still intact but achey; legs are going to *hurt* tomorrow; back needs stretching out.
So: would I do it again? Yes. It wasn't as hard as I'd feared (though the last 30mi was toughish & the last 15 really very tough - though was still quite happy when on the flat). and I'm feeling v pleased with myself right now. I'd like to do it in decent weather - it was pretty foul. I'd like to do it with fully functioning gears! It wd be interesting to do it with someone else - though I actually really enjoyed being on my own (& you do get to chat to people along the way, & repeatedly encounter the same folk as you leapfrog each other).
And I didn't get a puncture, hurrah!
Av: tbc, left odometer on bike.
