Author Topic: Up the uts - 14 March (Read 12368 times)

LiamFitz · « **on:** 07 March, 2009, 07:01:34 pm »

Anyone doing this one?

Liam

BornAgainCyclist · « **Reply #1 on:** 07 March, 2009, 07:05:44 pm »

Me, the 100k event together with another GS Avanti Club mate

toontra · « **Reply #2 on:** 07 March, 2009, 07:06:29 pm »

Doing the 150, as last year. Let's hope for slightly better weather - it was wet, cloudy, windy and generally a bit miserable if I remember.

LiamFitz · « **Reply #3 on:** 07 March, 2009, 07:11:07 pm »

I've signed up for the 200 and wondering if there is any YACF wisdom to share...

simonp · « **Reply #4 on:** 07 March, 2009, 08:18:08 pm »

Quote from: LiamFitz on 07 March, 2009, 07:11:07 pm

I've signed up for the 200 and wondering if there is any YACF wisdom to share...

Don't get tempted to stop on returning to HQ at the end of one of the loops.

Do take advantage of the excellent food at HQ.

Won't be there this year.

iddu · « **Reply #5 on:** 07 March, 2009, 09:21:56 pm »

Andrij · « **Reply #6 on:** 08 March, 2009, 09:17:04 am »

I'm doing the 200 and really looking forward to it. It's a nice ride - even better when the roads aren't covered in frogs...

annie · « **Reply #7 on:** 08 March, 2009, 11:23:14 am »

I will be there. It was a great ride last year. Watch out for the frogs if it rains.

The food was superb, as where the organisers and helpers.

Greenbank · « **Reply #8 on:** 08 March, 2009, 12:33:29 pm »

Very tempting but starting a 700km ride (well a 300, 200, 200 on subsequent days) the next day so probably not the wisest.

Enjoy!

Chris S · « **Reply #9 on:** 08 March, 2009, 12:52:57 pm »

Not this time. Springtime 200 yesterday and Haslingfield 200 at the end of the month is enough for my March fix.

red marley · « **Reply #10 on:** 08 March, 2009, 01:04:39 pm »

By the end of this week it will be almost seven days since I last rode through Thaxted, so I will be there to get my fix. And to have had a March without the traversals of Rickling Green numbering double figures, is well, not to have lived.

teethgrinder · « **Reply #11 on:** 08 March, 2009, 01:55:38 pm »

Quote from: Andrij on 08 March, 2009, 09:17:04 am

I'm doing the 200 and really looking forward to it. It's a nice ride - even better when the roads aren't covered in frogs...

Weren't they toads?
Anyway, what's wrong with our amphibeous friends? They are a good feature of the ride.
If youride the Start of the Summertime Special from Stevenage, you do that bit of oad again. It will be covered in squashed toads.

I forgot to enter this one.

slowfen · « **Reply #12 on:** 08 March, 2009, 04:38:07 pm »

Quote from: teethgrinder on 08 March, 2009, 01:55:38 pm

Anyway, what's wrong with our amphibeous friends? They are a good feature of the ride.
If youride the Start of the Summertime Special from Stevenage, you do that bit of oad again. It will be covered in squashed toads.

I found that.
Whats wrong, they are very slippy

Tiger · « **Reply #13 on:** 09 March, 2009, 08:47:35 am »

I am doing this but don't seem to have had teh route yet - has everyine else got theirs?
Anyone posted a GPS yet?

pendio · « **Reply #14 on:** 09 March, 2009, 09:26:25 am »

Got mine, arrived middle of last week. Type face is a bit small for me. Hope the weather is better than yesterday for the Upper Tea 200 - take me all week to clean my machine

arabella · « **Reply #15 on:** 09 March, 2009, 01:21:15 pm »

I am hoping to get here all by myself this time (unlike 2 years back), and make a weekend of it, staying in the lovely bungalow both nights (very civilised).
It will all go horribly wrong when I find a way of getting to Clacton by 8:45am on Sunday morning and have to rush back late Sat to take small guy to a judo competition.

Martin · « **Reply #16 on:** 09 March, 2009, 01:44:22 pm »

Quote from: pendio on 09 March, 2009, 09:26:25 am

Hope the weather is better than yesterday for the Upper Tea 200 - take me all week to clean my machine

check $:-\$

Really odd; the only rain we had was from about Blackdown to Pease Pottage on mostly well surfaced roads, but the recently wetted lanes between there and Fletching managed to produce a goodly layer of skog which is currently on my patio.

re the OP; the Uts does test the persistence of the hardened randonneur; going back once to the HQ is bad enough but dragging oneself out for a third loop in the rain while most of the other riders are putting their bikes back into their cars.....

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #17 on:** 09 March, 2009, 02:23:13 pm »

Quote from: Martin on 09 March, 2009, 01:44:22 pm

re the OP; the Uts does test the persistence of the hardened randonneur; going back once to the HQ is bad enough but dragging oneself out for a third loop in the rain while most of the other riders are putting their bikes back into their cars.....

When I did this ride in 2007, I was just leaving the 'uts for the second loop when jwo arrived. I wondered how, as a general GPS guru, he had managed to go so horribly off-route as to be about an hour behind me.

Until the horrible truth dawned.

annie · « **Reply #18 on:** 09 March, 2009, 02:36:36 pm »

Quote from: arabella on 09 March, 2009, 01:21:15 pm

I am hoping to get here all by myself this time (unlike 2 years back), and make a weekend of it, staying in the lovely bungalow both nights (very civilised).
It will all go horribly wrong when I find a way of getting to Clacton by 8:45am on Sunday morning and have to rush back late Sat to take small guy to a judo competition.

I can take you home after, unless you want to stay an extra night?

damerell · « **Reply #19 on:** 09 March, 2009, 05:26:25 pm »

I'm in for this one - the 200 out of that neck of the woods on Saturday went well, what can go wrong?

Chris S · « **Reply #20 on:** 09 March, 2009, 07:05:58 pm »

Forecast is looking ~~wild~~ ~~blowy~~ ~~windy~~ breezy. Have fun folks!

bazzerp · « **Reply #21 on:** 09 March, 2009, 07:12:06 pm »

Forecast is 25mph, gusting to 35 - will the Frogs fly ?

Doing (or is that was doing) the 100, saving myself for Haslingfield 200

drossall · « **Reply #22 on:** 10 March, 2009, 11:57:30 pm »

I'm on the 150.

arabella · « **Reply #23 on:** 11 March, 2009, 10:15:30 am »

Quote from: annie on 09 March, 2009, 02:36:36 pm

I can take you home after, unless you want to stay an extra night?

tempting. I've decided that the judo competition is out (no way of getting there on time due to train work etc), if I don't feel dead I may stay for the extra km on Sunday, otoh a full Sunday to ~~lounge about~~ work in the garden is also good.
I'll let you know on the day unless you need to know beforehand.

Rob · « **Reply #24 on:** 11 March, 2009, 11:09:55 am »

Will be on the 200.

Author Topic: Up the uts - 14 March (Read 12368 times)

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Tiger

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Martin

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Chris S

Rob