Mille Cymru - Welsh 1000 - 23-26/07/2010

[thing1]

Good luck! Treat the dragons with respect.
But maybe if you feed them, they won't be so hungry when we pass by....

[JohnHamilton]

But maybe if you feed them, they won't be so hungry when we pass by....

Nah. THe idea is to get them worked up so you can be the main course when you go by in two weeks time.

[Andydauddwr]

Two weeks to go... Time to wake the dragon and go see just what I've created. Iddu, Mikek and Pete Turner(notp) due to arrive later. Off early tomorrow am - hopefully I'll make it back within 75hours

Follow us on www.twitter.com/millecymru or via the blog on the event website.

Enjoy, sorry I can't make it along - too much on this w/e...  If any of you have a major mechanical give me a blast and I'll fire up the neutral service vehicle.  I think you have my number.

AC

[Basil]

Enjoy, sorry I can't make it along - too much on this w/e...  If any of you have a major mechanical give me a blast and I'll fire up the neutral service vehicle.  I think you have my number.

AC

Yes, have a good w/e.  You have my number if you need anything while in the Landysul area

[Weirdy Biker]

Two weeks.

Nurse, I think I just did a little poop  

[simonp]

Two weeks.

Nurse, I think I just did a little poop  

It's all right for you.  I have to do the Mille Milgia Italia 1600 3 weeks after it.

[Weirdy Biker]

Two weeks.

Nurse, I think I just did a little poop  

It's all right for you.  I have to do the Mille Milgia Italia 1600 3 weeks after it.

Raid Alpine my friend.  12-20 August.  Not as hardcore as grinding your way around Italy fuelled on a diet of boiled sweets, but also not a pootle down the pub  

[MattH]

For the serious hard brevet rider, you need to look at what Ken Bonner has done in the last month.

He rode the Diablo's Triple, a series of 1000km brevets with starts 4 days apart. After finishing the last one, he had 3 1/2 days rest then rode the Salmon Arm 1000km (in 57 hours!), then another couple of days off the bike followed by the Cascade 1240km. That's five 1000km+ rides in less than a month.

I suspect he's not going to have any difficulty getting an early entry to PBP 

[Andydauddwr]

Just had a text.  They're in Llanberis and a bit wet.  Not feeling too envious just yet...

Quite a bit of wind in play here too.  Dragon farts?

A

[revrob]

Yes, they were spotted in Pete's Eats.

The wind had not been kind, particularly in Dyffryn Mymbyr - where they climbed frm Capel Curig to Penypass.

But they were all smiling!

[JohnHamilton]

Well, three of them were smiling anyway. I had a major sense of humour failure on the long haul over the mountains into the headwind. 5 weeks off the bike is not ideal preparation. Train home from Bangor. Going to head down to Llanwrtyd a bit later to join them again.

Update from Llanwrtyd this morning - MikeK arrived 1:45am, PeteT at 2:30am and iddu at 3:30. Mike packed this morning with knee trouble. Still raining apparently.

So Dragon 2 - AUKs 0 so far.

[iakobski]

...MikeK arrived 1:45am, PeteT at 2:30am and iddu at 3:30.

Jeepers. What chance mere mortals?

[simonp]

...MikeK arrived 1:45am, PeteT at 2:30am and iddu at 3:30.

Jeepers. What chance mere mortals?

Mummy!

[Thing2]

 

You guys really aren't filling me with confidence you know.

I hope you have a better day today.

Emma

[jogler]

I reckon mrs. jogler has the right idea.She acquired an electric-assist bike a few days ago

[simonp]

You guys really aren't filling me with confidence you know.

I hope you have a better day today.

Emma

4x600s doesn't seem like enough training now.

[JohnHamilton]

...MikeK arrived 1:45am, PeteT at 2:30am and iddu at 3:30.

Jeepers. What chance mere mortals?

Well I wouldn't describe any of us as anything other than "mere mortals". I've had very few miles this year and nothing at all in the last month. Peter was doing his first ride over 400k. Iddu is making it hard(er) by riding fixed (having done gears back in December). The wind slowed us all down, and I knew at Llanberis that it wasn't going to get any better as we turned south. I reckon there would have been a good 300k of headwind on that first leg. It's not forecast to drop either until tomorrow night so it's not going to get much easier.

Still, we're exploring all the bail out options in advance

Annoyingly, whilst we were getting soaked in Snowdonia it was a nice sunny day in Shropshire.

[Hummers]

Glad to hear moistness abounds.

Am expecting more of the same in two weeks time.

H

[Basil]

It finaly stopped raining chez moi about 2 hours ago.  I expect they're around here somewhere now so hopefully they're gradually drying out.

[Hummers]

Looking at the Twitter posts, am I right in assuming it was a 7:30am start on Day 1?

H

[simonp]

Looking at the Twitter posts, am I right in assuming it was a 7:30am start on Day 1?

H

And were off!
6:27 AM Jul 9th via txt

[Hummers]

Looking at the Twitter posts, am I right in assuming it was a 7:30am start on Day 1?

H

And were off!
6:27 AM Jul 9th via txt

Yes, I saw that but for some reason, it said 7:27am on my laptop.

It now says 10:27PM - 8th July.

 

Anyway, interesting to follow how they are getting on nonetheless. Plus I was a trifle disappointed that people had stopped fretting about this.  


H

[simonp]

I did wonder if there was a timezone issue. I often see issues like that on websites. I guess JavaScript can give the ability to convert for local time.

My windows pc manages to show both 7.27AM and 10.27PM. Depending on which twitter page I look at. 10.27 is pacific time in the USA. Working for a San Jose based company helps one notice this. If I then log in to twitter it shows 6.27am. This will be adjusting for local time in the UK.

[Tewdric]

...MikeK arrived 1:45am, PeteT at 2:30am and iddu at 3:30.

Jeepers. What chance mere mortals?

Well I wouldn't describe any of us as anything other than "mere mortals". I've had very few miles this year and nothing at all in the last month. Peter was doing his first ride over 400k. Iddu is making it hard(er) by riding fixed (having done gears back in December). The wind slowed us all down, and I knew at Llanberis that it wasn't going to get any better as we turned south. I reckon there would have been a good 300k of headwind on that first leg. It's not forecast to drop either until tomorrow night so it's not going to get much easier.

Still, we're exploring all the bail out options in advance

Annoyingly, whilst we were getting soaked in Snowdonia it was a nice sunny day in Shropshire.

We know you better than that JH - you've packed purely for dramatic effect haven't you?  Eh?

You're just trying to instill THE FEAR in your riders aren't you?  

Well I think it might be working.

Murhahahaha.

[simonp]

I did wonder if there was a timezone issue. I often see issues like that on websites. I guess JavaScript can give the ability to convert for local time.

My windows pc manages to show both 7.27AM and 10.27PM. Depending on which twitter page I look at. 10.27 is pacific time in the USA. Working for a San Jose based company helps one notice this. If I then log in to twitter it shows 6.27am. This will be adjusting for local time in the UK.

(And this is set in my twitter account settings to GMT, and twitter doesn't seem to understand daylight savings time, so it probably is 7.27AM after all).

I hope that it is - it makes the times looks less scary by 1h.

350k in 18h15 by Mike K, if that's true.