Brilliant day out, enjoyed every minute of it. With the bonus distance that I hadn't noticed on the 100km, and the ride to and from Buntingford, I knocked up, by a few hundred yards, my first Imperial ton since last year's double bypass.
Apart from the obvious stop at the Haslingfield control, I just kept going to Dunmow and had lunch, which I'd brought with me, in Tomsk's park. I'm not sure a photo of the Audax control sign in his window counts as evidence of passage
so I did the usual shop thing as well.
I kept expecting to find a harder bit into the wind, but finished almost wishing I'd signed up for the 200