YACF LEJoG Relay

[corshamjim]

Hungerford is probably as far East as I could go in a day from Corsham.

[Basil]

It could join the Bryan Chapman at Chepstow and be released to someone's care at Menai.

It could also travel to Newquay from Chepstow  during the Brevet Cymru to start a tour in west Wales.

Could the baton be tracked with gpx?

Ooh.  I could collect it from New Quay (not the Cornwall one Rower) and then take to someone down in the Valleys or up to Aberystwyth.

[Basil]

Or, if it came to Brum, I could just about manage to get it to Kim.  It would be a tough day as it is at least one and a half miles.  Luckily the Country Girl is on the route, so I'd be able to stop half way for refreshments. 

[Kim]

Luckily the Country Girl is on the route, so I'd be able to stop half way for refreshments. 

I assumed that that particular handover was a compulsory part of its journey through the midlands.  The Country Girl is practically a YACF institution.

[LEE]

Is anybody in the Basingstoke area or Salisbury area on Sunday 21st Nov?

The Baton will be passing near Basingstoke around 10:30 and near Salisbury around 15:00.

I will have carried it from my house by bike and it needs to be met by someone who will be on a bike (and will carry it home on a bike).  No car journeys allowed.

If not then it will just have to be its first 200k Audax back to my house.

[Hummers]

The American Diner is near Kingsclere not Kingsworthy and both this location and Hungerford will be visited in January by a selection of southern AUKs. Why not secrete it somewhere near these places in a seekrit location?

Failing that, I think you'll find that MattH lives in the Basingstoke area...

H

[LEE]

[Basil]

Are we taking the 70 pence on the journey too?

[mike]

your eyes are getting bad Basil. 

[Andrij]

Well, money ain't worth what it used to be.
 

[jogler]

your eyes are getting bad Basil. 

p'raps Basil is posting from the yacf Brummieland relay control station,a.k.a.The Country Girl.
In the interests of route checking

[Basil]

your eyes are getting bad Basil. 

No, rubbish work 'puter.  I assume it's £1.50 then?

[Jaded]

That's going to need a saddle with a cut out 

[AndyH]

Is anybody in the Basingstoke area or Salisbury area on Sunday 21st Nov?

The Baton will be passing near Basingstoke around 10:30 and near Salisbury around 15:00.

I will have carried it from my house by bike and it needs to be met by someone who will be on a bike (and will carry it home on a bike).  No car journeys allowed.

If not then it will just have to be its first 200k Audax back to my house.

I can do Salisbury on sunday Lee, if you are not yet sorted. From where it would end up in Blandford Forum, not sure what would happen next though, perhaps PaulD could take it on it's next leg somewhere

[Arch]

Is anybody in the Basingstoke area or Salisbury area on Sunday 21st Nov?

The Baton will be passing near Basingstoke around 10:30 and near Salisbury around 15:00.

I will have carried it from my house by bike and it needs to be met by someone who will be on a bike (and will carry it home on a bike).  No car journeys allowed.

If not then it will just have to be its first 200k Audax back to my house.

I can do Salisbury on sunday Lee, if you are not yet sorted. From where it would end up in Blandford Forum, not sure what would happen next though, perhaps PaulD could take it on it's next leg somewhere

Funny, cos it looks a bit like a table leg....

It's beautiful and , I suspect, classifiable as a weapon... Can you be charged with 'going equipped to commit a relay'?

[Lycra Man]

I'm handily located roughly between Lee (near Amesbury, I believe) and London village.

So I hereby invite the YACFer Baton to visit Waddesdon, which is near Aylesbury, in Buckinghashire.

I can easily meet folk in Oxford, Didcot, Brackley, Buckingham, Milton Keynes, Tring, High Wycombe, Marlow, etc. (Not all at once, I was thinking you could pick one location, you know.)

Lycra Man

[LEE]

Is anybody in the Basingstoke area or Salisbury area on Sunday 21st Nov?

The Baton will be passing near Basingstoke around 10:30 and near Salisbury around 15:00.

I will have carried it from my house by bike and it needs to be met by someone who will be on a bike (and will carry it home on a bike).  No car journeys allowed.

If not then it will just have to be its first 200k Audax back to my house.

I can do Salisbury on sunday Lee, if you are not yet sorted. From where it would end up in Blandford Forum, not sure what would happen next though, perhaps PaulD could take it on it's next leg somewhere

PM sent to arrange first official handover and the Baton's first step towards Cornwall.

Romsey being the proposed handover location.

[Wowbagger]

Are we taking the 70 pence on the journey too?

That's the fee when someone drives it over the Dartford Bridge!

[AndyH]

So where is it going after Blandford Forum ? (or have I got to take it somewhere)

[Oscar's dad]

What a good idea. 

I would be happy to do some of the East Anglian leg (clearly there needs to be one).

When is the baton starting it's journey (or have I missed this vital piece of info?)

[LEE]

So where is it going after Blandford Forum ? (or have I got to take it somewhere)

Well, it would be nice to get it to Cornwall, is PaulD heading that way I wonder.

The Baton becomes your responsibility.  There's no pressure to get it to Lands End but, once it does, its journey to JoG s officially underway.

Remember that a ride report and photo are part of the handing-over ceremony.
Hopefully ours will be at Romsey Esso/Costa Coffee on Sunday, around 3pm.

I guess that me buying you, the new Ring-Bearer Baton-Carrier, a drink should be part of the ceremony.

[LEE]

When is the baton starting it's journey (or have I missed this vital piece of info?)

My house, Andover,  Hampshire.

On Sunday it will complete 150km of a 200km Audax before, hopefully, being handed to AndyH.

He will transport to Blandford Forum (much older than this Forum I hasten to add) and then figure out who to hand it to next.

[Oscar's dad]

Cool.

I am in Witham, Essex (CM8 - between Chelmsford and Colchester).  There are a variety of YACFers very local so we could spend weeks passing The Baton round Essex and then ensure it safely travels up to Suffolk where there are yet more YACFers who could no doubt pass it up into Norfolk.

[Jaded]

This thread is useless without maps.

[Panoramix]

This thread is useless without maps.

It is quite simple, the baton is going to Cornwall, it is currently in Hampshire thus Essex is somewhere between Hampshire and Cornwall!