For the first time in the 5 years I have been riding this event we had no rain whatsoever in the 12 hours. In fact we had brilliant sunshine the whole time and a very warm, dry Southerly wind (great for the long barrow that Frank was timing but horrible for us). Various folks out on the day have reported that their cars showed the temp as 28 or 29 degrees.
Despite all that, we managed:
Brian 213
Jake 207
Lisa 155 (with a very long sit down in the shade on the finishing circuit!)
Mike Levett (Lewes Wanderers) who has been riding the evening 10s did 206.
In other news for the weekend, John did 1:1:54 in the North Hants 25 on Saturday and 28:45 in the Richmond Park TT on Sunday where Tony T was DNF.
Frank reports that the Tandem Trike did 272 for 12 hours beating their own record by approx 10 miles, and were still on course late last night to beat the London Edinburgh record (though don't know yet if they managed it) they weren't expected to continue for the 24.
Lisa
Update: 12:15 Monday.
It's not fair, is it? Today would have been much better for the 12 with the wind much less, and more cloud cover giving us more shade and lower temps. The wind direction doesn't matter so much, so today would have been much better conditions. A lot of the field didn't finish the event, which I guess was down to the hot day.
Thanks to Ron, Doreen & Rosemary - chiefly helping Brian - and Simon & Jen helping Jake, for the assistance (especially sponges) to all three of us. And of course thanks to Pete for helping me, I couldn't have done it without him (even if it did take only 4hrs 20mins for me to start swearing at him - I was hungry and hadn't seen him for over an hour!!!)
Finally the report on the Long Barrow is successful attempts at 12hrs (270ish) and London-Edinburgh (19hrs 15 - approx 2 hours off old record) and the 24 abandoned. At 8am this morning Frank was in a bed somewhere......!
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