White Rose Challenge

John.T

Nor me.

Booboocp

Ref. Photos

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Steve GT

Thanks for a organising a good event Derek.
When I do Sportives or go out on my own for long rides I normally have two 750 ml bottles with me. I will fill one of them with an energy drink, PSP2 being the drink I prefer and the other bottle is just filled with plain water. I always find that I need to drink water after the PSP2 to take the very sweet taste away.
On a day that has a low to normal temperature, say less that 22 deg C, I normally would need to refill the bottle after 25 to 30 miles. This distance decreases quite dramatically on a hot day, especially on a tough hilly route.
So I found myself running out of water on the 3rd leg (Hawes to Malham) and the final leg (Malham back to Ilkley).
When I got to Stainforth my water bottle was close to empty.
The same thing happened on the final leg, I had no water left after Beamsley.
As a local, I know that there are taps at the Bolton Abbey car park toilets, but as I was in a trance like state due to being knackered it did not occur to me to go and refill them there!
Stainforth, on the other hand, I do not know where to get some water.
I was wondering if anyone else had my dilemma and if it is possible to have a water stop at Stainforth in future , especially if it looks like being a hot day?

fraz167

Steve GT wrote:

Thanks for a organising a good event Derek.
When I do Sportives or go out on my own for long rides I normally have two 750 ml bottles with me. I will fill one of them with an energy drink, PSP2 being the drink I prefer and the other bottle is just filled with plain water. I always find that I need to drink water after the PSP2 to take the very sweet taste away.
On a day that has a low to normal temperature, say less that 22 deg C, I normally would need to refill the bottle after 25 to 30 miles. This distance decreases quite dramatically on a hot day, especially on a tough hilly route.
So I found myself running out of water on the 3rd leg (Hawes to Malham) and the final leg (Malham back to Ilkley).
When I got to Stainforth my water bottle was close to empty.
The same thing happened on the final leg, I had no water left after Beamsley.
As a local, I know that there are taps at the Bolton Abbey car park toilets, but as I was in a trance like state due to being knackered it did not occur to me to go and refill them there!
Stainforth, on the other hand, I do not know where to get some water.
I was wondering if anyone else had my dilemma and if it is possible to have a water stop at Stainforth in future , especially if it looks like being a hot day?

Hi Steve,

In previous WRC's there has been water at the top of the climb onto Malham Moor.

Talk soon
Fraser

andy_from_embsay

In previous WRC's there has been water at the top of the climb onto Malham Moor.

Not last year, unless I was completely delerious...

Booboocp

There has never been a water stop at the top of Malham.

What myself and my wife have done is hand out water to a few needy cyclists while I have been doing the photos...

However as I try to take on board ALL feedback, I'll look again at water stops for 2010.