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Re: Mille Pennines 3rd July 2020
« Reply #400 on: 28 June, 2016, 06:39:20 pm »
What average speed did you put for the weatherbagel? Trying to do a rough plan for food/supplies etc.

Edit: looks like minimum speed after clicking the boxes a bit more

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Re: Mille Pennines 3rd July 2020
« Reply #401 on: 28 June, 2016, 08:16:29 pm »
I just want to wish everyone the best - I hope the weather is good and your knees are strong. Have fun!

Re: Mille Pennines 3rd July 2020
« Reply #402 on: 28 June, 2016, 08:25:32 pm »
Just looked at the weatherbagel. Not sure I'll want to do it/enjoy it if it rains a lot. I've survived tricky wet descents once too often. My luck is sure to run out!
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Re: Mille Pennines 3rd July 2020
« Reply #403 on: 28 June, 2016, 08:59:42 pm »
Just looked at the weatherbagel. Not sure I'll want to do it/enjoy it if it rains a lot. I've survived tricky wet descents once too often. My luck is sure to run out!
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Re: Mille Pennines 3rd July 2020
« Reply #404 on: 28 June, 2016, 09:42:13 pm »
Just spent the best part of an hour wandering round the flat trying to decide how/what to pack. Seem to have misplaced GPS before going away too. Beginning to wonder if this is all some sort of sign...

Re: Mille Pennines 3rd July 2020
« Reply #405 on: 28 June, 2016, 10:10:31 pm »
I'm terrified.

Re: Mille Pennines 3rd July 2020
« Reply #406 on: 28 June, 2016, 10:20:02 pm »
I'm really looking forward to it! I reckon the main danger is getting disheartened when I'm really close to home (and it's never very far from home for me).

Re: Mille Pennines 3rd July 2020
« Reply #407 on: 28 June, 2016, 10:38:55 pm »
I'm really looking forward to it! I reckon the main danger is getting disheartened when I'm really close to home (and it's never very far from home for me).
Oh dear. Easy for you to bail or not turn up then? A year ago I hated the idea of dns after paying the entry (I earn peanuts), but after dns-ing a few (being ill mainly), I have the attutude it's only a bike ride. Having said that, I've reluctantly gone out the last few months just to keep my rrty going. My audax enthusiasm this year has taken a nose dive.
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Re: Mille Pennines 3rd July 2020
« Reply #408 on: 28 June, 2016, 10:40:36 pm »
It would be easy to bail! I live in Darlington, and Blackpool is the farthest from home it gets.

Homefield advantage, mind :)

Re: Mille Pennines 3rd July 2020
« Reply #409 on: 29 June, 2016, 08:41:54 am »
I'm reconsidering, mainly due to having spent the last weekend crawling around in the mud at Glastonbury and not sure I am ready for another long weekend of 'weather'.

Would anybody be interested in either or both parts of my advance train ticket from London?
Friday 1 July: 05:30 from London Euston to Preston (arr 08:13) / 08:22 from Preston to Blackpool North (arr 08:48).
Monday 4 July: 14:21 from Blackpool North to Preston (arr 14:49) / 14:58 from Preston to London Euston (arr 17:15).
£39 each way, including bike space reservation

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Re: Mille Pennines 3rd July 2020
« Reply #410 on: 29 June, 2016, 08:52:02 am »
Last weekend for me was like this...   :sick:

Offa's Dyke 600 - 8,469 metres ascending

https://www.strava.com/activities/622437404

By analysis of sheer ascending per kilometre it was harder than what we are going into, and at times, in some heavy rain, and on some gravelly descents and worse ascents, I even considered staying home this coming weekend.....

However, as always, after the ride you just want MORE.....  ;D
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Re: Mille Pennines 3rd July 2020
« Reply #411 on: 29 June, 2016, 08:59:21 am »
I'm still tossing this up in my mind. I was dead keen, especially after really enjoying the Tan Hill 600 but everything is conspiring against me now. It's not quitting if you don't start is it? :S
Can it be done as a Perm? Maybe a DIY thingie?

Re: Mille Pennines 3rd July 2020
« Reply #412 on: 29 June, 2016, 10:01:31 am »
Well, I've got all my passes sorted from the family so even if there's a hurricane in the Lake District, snow in the Moors and flooding in the Dales I'll be rolling out of Bispham at 10am on Friday. To paraphrase Wheels on Fire from the 24TT thread, it's all time away from my kids so I'm happy :thumbsup:

(Tonight I shall be putting an extra layer or two in the drop bag though)

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Re: Mille Pennines 3rd July 2020
« Reply #413 on: 29 June, 2016, 10:12:09 am »
It will all be fine, I am sure of it.

If it is truly horrendous on day 1, then making a beeline for askrigg and then riding all or parts of days 2 and 3 is still a better way to spend a weekend than not riding.
Right! What's next?

Ooooh. That sounds like a daft idea.  I am in!

Re: Mille Pennines 3rd July 2020
« Reply #414 on: 29 June, 2016, 10:19:57 am »
My sentiment also ... it would be so disappointing not to attempt this ride after all the prep (my own, and that of the organisers). The different weather forecast sites paint different pictures. Yes it'll rain, but that'll just make the dry periods even better.

I'm hoping to see a good turnout when I turn up at Bispham on Friday morning.

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Re: Mille Pennines 3rd July 2020
« Reply #415 on: 29 June, 2016, 10:29:22 am »
I've not used Weather Bagel before, not sure how accurate it is but at 20kph and 6am starts on days 2, 3 and 4 it doesn't look too wet, just windy:

Day1: http://www.weatherbagel.com/f/36838627-8604-4c91-b051-ddd6b79228fa
Day2: http://www.weatherbagel.com/f/8169ee11-5ce3-4660-a9ff-3dcce013f67a
Day3 could be fun riding west all afternoon and evening: http://www.weatherbagel.com/f/9bb8202f-be6c-49e3-b7eb-326dd99775be
Day4: http://www.weatherbagel.com/f/48ad8516-c625-4a90-be87-d55789ae1392

Change of kit for day 2 and yer laffing! :thumbsup: Hopefully Andy has a drying area sorted out in the Outdoor Centre.

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Re: Mille Pennines 3rd July 2020
« Reply #416 on: 29 June, 2016, 11:35:58 am »
Breaking these out seems appropriate in the current climate

Re: Mille Pennines 3rd July 2020
« Reply #417 on: 29 June, 2016, 11:43:07 am »
Is there a definitive answer somewhere up-thread, as to whether there will be blankets available for sleeping?  I can't find anything
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Re: Mille Pennines 3rd July 2020
« Reply #418 on: 29 June, 2016, 12:09:06 pm »
Is there a definitive answer somewhere up-thread, as to whether there will be blankets available for sleeping?  I can't find anything
I'm not sure it has been answered - I'm planning to take a silk sleeping bag liner in my drop bag, hopefully it'll give me more of a sensation of being in bed than just sleeping on an airbed in cycle clothes.

I'm going to have a stab at this irrespective of the weather. I've been on too many rides where the forecast hasn't been great, but has turned out OK. I've no doubt that we will be getting weather at some stage, but having booked trains, accommodation and time off work, it seems silly not to. If I end up not riding some of the ride, then so be it - at least I tried.

Re: Mille Pennines 3rd July 2020
« Reply #419 on: 29 June, 2016, 01:15:24 pm »
This will be my first ride over 600km and, while perhaps not the gentlest introduction to rides of this distance, at least using Askrigg as a base provides options if it gets a bit much to cut short or miss a stage. This has been in my calendar for a while and I had expected to have by now a new svelte light bike, swanky groupset and a GPS with mapping so I can see where I'm going. As it is, I will be on my old cycle-to-work scheme bike made of scaffolding tubes forged in Mordor and using a route sheet with a bull dog clip. However it's served me ok for other audaxes..

I'm also taking a sleeping bag liner so I can pretend I'm in a bed rather than on it.

Re: Mille Pennines 3rd July 2020
« Reply #420 on: 29 June, 2016, 01:23:01 pm »
This will be my first ride over 600km and, while perhaps not the gentlest introduction to rides of this distance, at least using Askrigg as a base provides options if it gets a bit much to cut short or miss a stage. This has been in my calendar for a while and I had expected to have by now a new svelte light bike, swanky groupset and a GPS with mapping so I can see where I'm going. As it is, I will be on my old cycle-to-work scheme bike made of scaffolding tubes forged in Mordor and using a route sheet with a bull dog clip. However it's served me ok for other audaxes..

I'm also taking a sleeping bag liner so I can pretend I'm in a bed rather than on it.

My First ride over 600 too, and the Askrigg base was the deal-maker for me too.
Not sure if I still have a sleeping bag liner, but i'll find something to take.
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Re: Mille Pennines 3rd July 2020
« Reply #421 on: 29 June, 2016, 01:34:39 pm »

It's an Andy Corless Ride, ergo concordantly it has to rain (sorry Andy!), but in your head you just have to be like...

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Taking a sleeping bag, in case of not enough matrassess, my first Audax over 600km

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Re: Mille Pennines 3rd July 2020
« Reply #422 on: 29 June, 2016, 02:07:12 pm »
Last weekend for me was like this...   :sick:

Offa's Dyke 600 - 8,469 metres ascending

https://www.strava.com/activities/622437404

By analysis of sheer ascending per kilometre it was harder than what we are going into, and at times, in some heavy rain, and on some gravelly descents and worse ascents, I even considered staying home this coming weekend.....

However, as always, after the ride you just want MORE.....  ;D
I don't remember seeing you on the snow/floods Dean 2013  :) . I used to think suffering/doing a hard ride gave me bragging rights/street cred. Just had a wet 30km ride home, and either I'm sweating in my gore jacket, or it's not working. Still making my mind up.
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Re: Mille Pennines 3rd July 2020
« Reply #423 on: 29 June, 2016, 03:42:37 pm »
Has anybody got a copy of the route sheet converted to  Word  please? 

I want to do a bit of editing, especially when it goes over the page by a line or two, for some reason....

(I tried a converter but it just gave me a word doc with the pages as images......)
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Re: Mille Pennines 3rd July 2020
« Reply #424 on: 29 June, 2016, 03:45:57 pm »
"Is there a definitive answer somewhere up-thread, as to whether there will be blankets available for sleeping?"

Yes there will be blankets!

"Hopefully Andy has a drying area sorted out in the Outdoor Centre."

There is a drying room in the outdoor centre.

Weather isn't looking particularly good and entrants are dropping like flies! I'm thinking of running a re-run of the event next summer specifically for those that have entered but can't make it this time (ie - DNS/DNF only), with a reduced entry fee (probably £25).

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