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

[Bones]

My ride report delivered through the medium of cartography:



You'll need to view the PDF version to read the text.

Jo, this is a great way to present a ride report. The map makes it mean much more. Everyone who did this has my total respect as my legs always want to stop at about 180k!

[welshman]

Wow what a ride.

I'd just like to say a massive THANK YOU to the organisers and all the volunteers that helped make this ride an experience to be savoured.

Hi to all that I met over the weekend, being new to to this Audax lark I met most of you for the first time and due to my befuddled state managed to forget most peoples names!  Sorry. 

Hi James, and thanks for helping me through those (very few) bleaker periods of the ride.

Hope to see you all on the road again some time..

 

[Hot Flatus]

If that is Sam, then on the contrary thank you!  Excellent company, but my god did those last 30k seem to take an eternity.

Sorry about all the pissing. Got quite insane didn't it

[JohnHamilton]

Photos from Tim Wainwright on Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/timwainwright/sets/72157624513245215/

and from Ben Proctor
http://www.flickr.com/photos/likeaword/collections/72157624584880806/

[teethgrinder]

Dr Volio? Gears?

 

 




 

[PloddinPedro]

Photos from Tim Wainwright on Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/timwainwright/sets/72157624513245215/

and from Ben Proctor
http://www.flickr.com/photos/likeaword/collections/72157624584880806/

I can see Tim's shots fine, but when I hit the link for Ben's the thumbnails boxes are all blank, though everything else is there.

What might I be doing wrong?

[mattc]

Dr Volio? Gears?

 

 

Look at him! He's loving it!

_MG_1414 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

[vorsprung]

Dr Volio? Gears?

 

 




 

It was funny following Jo on gears.  On hills he selected a 70" gear and got out of the saddle.  At first I thought he was just doing it to stretch his legs, but no. 

You can take the fixie rider off the fixed but you can't take the fixed out of their legs

[Panoramix]

Not being able to compete with Jo, I have done my ride report in French:

Mille Cymru - Page 4

[Nuncio]

Formidable!

[mattc]

I've learned a new phrase:
je fais le Yo-yo entre deux groupes

... which I feel could be useful in other areas of life.

[border-rider]

Look at him! He's loving it!

I hated riding gears.  I loved the event.

[Plodder]

Not being able to compete with Jo, I have done my ride report in French:

Mille Cymru - Page 4

CR fort intéressant avec de bonnes photos.

Maintenant je sais pourquoi tu avais l'air si fragile lorsque je t'ai vu après le petit-déjeuner à l’arrivée mais j'ai du mal à comprendre pourquoi le druide n'a pas pu se faire une potion magique contre le mal de ventre et ses effets graves. 

[mattc]

I hated riding gears. 

They're not for everyone.

[Panoramix]

Look at him! He's loving it!

I hated riding gears.  I loved the event.

The problem with modern society is too much choice 

[Laid Back Rich]

just joined YACF, this is my first post... just a quick note to say thanks so much John and all your volunteers for really great ride, controls, food and helpers, spot-on routesheet and impeccable organisation etc. without which I'd probably not have completed just possibly, arguably [discuss] the best AUK ride ever.

some more photos here
 http://public.fotki.com/richardevans/mille-cymru-july-2010/

[border-rider]

Hello Richard

Very nice rider-POV photo set, that

I love this one especially

[Euan Uzami]

Where's this?

[Hot Flatus]

I think it was on the last day, after Llandovery and up to llianne brianne reservoir

[MattH]

Finally got it together to post my ride report.

[Nuncio]

I think it was on the last day, after Llandovery and up to llianne brianne reservoir

Yes, pretty sure it's that road, though from my point of view it was on the penultimate day.  I think that that whole stretch from Llandovery to Tregaron, but especially the bit round the lake, was my favourite of the whole ride.

[ludwig]

I often ride that road Tregaron- Llyn Brianne - Llandovery as My girlfriend lives in Cilycwm which is on the descent from the lake heading towards Llandovery. It is a sstunning road. In the autumn the larches go golden and drop nedles over the road. I'm not totally convinced though that this is where the photograph is. it looks to me like a section of the cwmystwyth road nearer the Rhayader end. It's all very beautiful anyway. It was nice at the control to hear riders extolling the virtue of roads many of which have long been my favourites and also some of the nice things that people have said about the Masons arms which is after all the best pub in the world but don't tell anyone.

[mattc]

I reckon it's taken on the swoopy (quite short) downhill bit after the very long climb past the sign for the reservoir (and the cattle grid(s)? ).

But before it turns into various ups and downs round those forest roads above the reservoir ( then came the info, then the final short-vsteep bit after the phone box IIRC?)

I've only ridden that area the once, but this is one of the more vivid memories of the event.

[miniog]

Where's this?

It's here:

Google Maps

[ludwig]

oops wrong  as usual. I still don't recognise it though