Is anyone doing the [INSERT RIDE HERE] in 2009? (a.k.a. LEL plans...)

[eck]

Instead, the End to End and maybe the 24 too, if a certain "audax god disguised as a cycling tramp" is still after me to be his tandem partner. 

I can imagine George's body going round the 24 course for the 100th time, like El Cid strapped to his horse in the film starring Charlton Heston. (This is a legend and never actually happened.)

Damon.

How did you know who I meant? 

[Really Ancien]

Because he's on Vimeo putting out an APB, at 1min 46 sec  <a href="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1442896&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=01AAEA" target="_blank">http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1442896&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=01AAEA</a>
There's also Steve Massey, teasing Louise about doing LEL on a Tandem.

Damon.

[JJ]

I did hear that there was going to be a 200 in the Cambridge area next year, and lo the calendar shows a Haslingfield 200. Definitely going to have to do it given that I grew up in that village. It's bound to take in Chapel Hill (the road out to Barrington) too.

That'd be mine.  Sorry no Chapel Hill, but you can always take a small detour. -Thinks- perhaps I should put it in after all

So my plans would be.
Ride as many 200's as poss through winter, to include that^ several times unofficially and the PS.
A series if time permits, to include the Dean 'cos I like it.
LEL if I get a place.

[Greenbank]

That'd be mine.  Sorry no Chapel Hill, but you can always take a small detour. -Thinks- perhaps I should put it in after all

I'll do it one way or another. If I ride up from London I'll come over it. If I get the train up I'll get off at Shepreth or Foxton and do it.

[Greenbank]

Plan now looks like this:

11-JAN: Poor Student No can do.
31-JAN: Willy Warmer (a nice ride and an easy 40km ride to/from the start). ENTERED
28-FEB: DIY 200 including Braziers Run 100 like last year.
22-MAR: Haslingfield 200 (and either cycle to the start or back to London, doubtful both but you never know)
28-MAR: The Dean 300 (the weather can't be any worse than last year!)
25-APR: Elenith 300 ENTERED
16-MAY: Bryan Chapman 600 ENTERED
26-MAY: DIY 400 - London to Padstow
early-JUN: DIY 200 banker if RTTY is still going strong
27-JUN: Midland Super Grimpeur 300 (gears please)
4-JUL: DIY 400 Dun Run and back home
26-JUL: LEL 1400 (8am start, 12kph min speed)
Aug: Cheddar Gorge 300 Perm?
Sep: ?
Oct: ?

Plus many laps of Richmond Park and after work circuits of the Surrey Hills¹ as a DIY100 once the evenings start to get darker later.

Lots of rides late in the month but I'm not worried about an RRTY. It'll either happen or it won't. I'll still plan on doing at least one ride a month.

1. Leave work at 5pm. Waterloo, Dorking, Cranleigh, Epsom, Putney comes out as 106km. Home by 10pm (hopefully).

[Drone]

I've worked on the principle of it being the 2009 audax season and my plan is below.

This is a provisional list as Gavin Greenhow's rides aren't all in the calendar yet and subject to my own availability I usually fit a couple of his rides in each year.  Completing the BCM will be my seventh year of SRs and the Heart of the Shires with be my fifth consequetive RRTY.

I had originally planned to ride Lejog as a 1400 BR instead of LEL in 2009. But because of the absence of the Killer in September I rode it then and as I now have the generous offer of a proper bed close to the start I feel an obligation to ride subject to a place being available.

Date   Event Name   Distance
08/11/2008   South Leics 1 DIY perm   200
06/12/2008   Tinsel and Lanes   200
25/01/2009   A Mere 200   200
08/02/2009   Rutland and Beyond   100
14/02/2009   Cotswold Corker   100
21/02/2009   Kennett Valley Run   200
14/03/2009   Severn to Wye   200
10/04/2009   Easter Arrow   400
25/04/2009   Elenith   300
02/05/2009   Brevet Cymru   400
16/05/2009   Bryan Chapman Memorial   600
30/05/2009   Irish Mail   400
06/06/2009   Heart of the Shires   200
04/07/2009   Offa's Dyke   600
26/07/2009   London Edinburgh London   1400
08/08/2009   Heart of Wales   300
05/09/2009   Kidderminster Killer   200
27/09/2009   Beyond Shropshire   200
11/10/2009   South Leics 4 DIY perm   400

Overall plan stay fit, stay in one piece and keep riding.

[frere yacker]

Plan now looks like this:

Better get used to my fizzog, as I am likely to do most of those rides as well.  Even on LEL you won't escape my 10-yard-stare as I hope to be manning a control.

In addition, I hope to do most of John Hamilton's SR series and Ian H's K&SW.  LEJOG also features and an Alpine Raid and/or La Marmotte is on the cards.  Coupled with some hilly permanents in Wales and the North East, possibly cut with some rides North of the Border, 2009 is not shaping up to be the "take it easy year" I was contemplating at the beginning of September 

[Greenbank]

Plan now looks like this:

Better get used to my fizzog, as I am likely to do most of those rides as well.  Even on LEL you won't escape my 10-yard-stare as I hope to be manning a control.

Luckily you're faster than me although I think I somehow managed to see you at the Stow petrol station on the Dean.

Entries for the Elenith, BCM and Dean are in the post and I've snapped up some of the good deals on the local Travelodges (Hartlebury, Bristol Severn View Services, Oxford Peartree for the start and Wheatley afterwards).

Just got to make a note of when the cheap train tickets for each ride will go on sale and stick those dates in the diary.

[Greenbank]

Update of plan...

11-JAN: Poor Student No can do.
31-JAN: Willy Warmer (a nice ride and an easy 40km car ride to/from the start). DONE
28-FEB: DIY 200 including Braziers Run 100 like last year. DONE
15-17 MAR DIY 300, 200, 200 up to Edinburgh. DONE.
22-MAR: Haslingfield 200 (and either cycle to the start or back to London, doubtful both but you never know) Couldn't do.
28-MAR: The Dean 300 (the weather can't be any worse than last year!) DONE
25-APR: Elenith 300 ENTERED
16-MAY: Bryan Chapman 600 ENTERED
26-MAY: DIY 400 - London to Padstow Still on for this
early-JUN: DIY 200 banker if RTTY is still going strong
27-JUN: Midland Super Grimpeur 300 (gears please) ENTERED
4-JUL: DIY 400 Dun Run and back home Still on for this
26-JUL: LEL 1400 (8am start, 12kph min speed)
Aug: Cheddar Gorge 300 Perm? ENTERED. Not chosen date yet.
Sep: ?
Oct: ?

That's:-

Done: 2+2+3+2+2+3 = 14 done so far (no rides in Nov or Dec as I was in South America)
Planned: 3+6+4+2+3+4+14+3 = 39

So 53 points for the year. 7 on gears (DIY 400 to Cornwall and MSG) so I'd need 4 Surrey Hills DIY 100s on fixed for 50 FWC points (not including the AAA points from the Elenith and BCM). Although I've also got September and October where I could do a 200 each month on fixed.

Plus many laps of Richmond Park (11 out of the planned 100 for the year so far) and after work circuits of the Surrey Hills¹ as a DIY100 once the evenings start to get darker later. Not long now...

Lots of rides late in the month but I'm not worried about an RRTY. It'll either happen or it won't. I'll still plan on doing at least one ride a month.

1. Leave work at 5pm. Waterloo, Dorking, Cranleigh, Epsom, Putney comes out as 106km. Home by 10pm (hopefully).

[frere yacker]

Pfft.  Thanks for the reminder of this thread - it is amusing how much my plans have fallen by the wayside.  Yet to ride my first over-100km ride of 2009 

[Greenbank]

Update of plan... (updated post MSG)

11-JAN: Poor Student No can do.
31-JAN: Willy Warmer (a nice ride and an easy 40km car ride to/from the start). DONE
28-FEB: DIY 200 including Braziers Run 100 like last year. DONE
15-17 MAR DIY 300, 200, 200 up to Edinburgh. DONE.
22-MAR: Haslingfield 200 (and either cycle to the start or back to London, doubtful both but you never know) Couldn't do.
28-MAR: The Dean 300 (the weather can't be any worse than last year!) DONE
25-APR: Elenith 300 DONE
16-MAY: Bryan Chapman 600 DONE
27-MAY: DIY 400 - London to Padstow Couldn't do.
early-JUN: DIY 200 banker if RTTY is still going strong No time...
27-JUN: Midland Super Grimpeur 300 (gears please) DONE
4-JUL: DIY 400 Dun Run and back home Still on for this
26-JUL: LEL 1400 (8am start, 12kph min speed)
Aug: Cheddar Gorge 300 Perm? ENTERED. Not chosen date yet.
Sep: ?
Oct: ?

That's:-

Done: 2+2+3+2+2+3+3+6+3 = 26 done so far (no rides in Nov or Dec as I was in South America)
Planned:4+14+3 = 21.

So 47 points for the year. Only 3 on gears (MSG) so I'd need 6 more FWC points for 50 FWC points (not including the 13 AAA points from the Elenith and BCM). Although I've also got September and October where I could do 3 200s on fixed to get it.

Plus many laps of Richmond Park (42 out of the planned 100 for the year so far) and before or after work circuits of the Surrey Hills¹ as a DIY100 once the evenings start to get darker later. Not long now...

Lots of rides late in the month but I'm not worried about an RRTY. It'll either happen or it won't. I'll still plan on doing at least one ride a month.

1. Leave work at 5pm. Waterloo, Dorking, Cranleigh, Epsom, Putney comes out as 106km. Home by 10pm (hopefully). Or, leave home at 5am, at work by 10am.