Its almost here-Thank You ALL

Agent57

I'm on a train, waiting to go back to Old Trafford to pick the car up. I can report that I saw Gaz en route.There were special circumstances, which I'm sure he will include in his report. Don't want to steal his thunder. The last 10 miles or so were horrible; bad headwind in Lytham or somewhere like that - lasted all the way to Blackpool.

Almost got cramp after about 45 miles or so. Could feel my legs trying to seize up, but luckily it held off. \o/

Saw two accidents which looked serious. Hope the riders are OK.

Jay dubbleU

Looks as though he got into the finish around 16:27

FyPunK

They did look bad, both riders were not moving, the one in Haigh Hall happend a few secs before we passed, I nearly came a cropper in there and ended up off road in the mud. Didn't see anyone en-route, sounds like Gaz was somewhat behind me. Well done everyone, roll on next year.

Roougers

I'm relatively new round here and I have to say thats an amazing effort, gives inspiration to us all. I started riding last year when I was working in London and lost a few stone, and that was hard enough and difficult to maintain, but that is one amazing story.

Hope the ride went well today!

capoz77

The rider who was hit by a car I think near Heigh Hall was white as a ghost and not moving when I passed

There was another spectacular crash, guy on a racer doing around 20mph on the dual carriage way and for no reason went completely over the handle bars landed on his helmet and the bike crashed down on him then both rider and bike rolled over each other a couple of times. He got straight up and took bike to side of road all the spokes were snapped!

Whether spokes snapping was a result of the crash or what the crash caused I don't know :shock: If he hadn't have had a helmet on i'd reckon he may not be here now.

First time i've done the ride and as I was expecting Heigh Hall climb to be one super steep sharp climb it was a nice surprise when all the climb/flat/climb/flat steady gradiant turned out the be the climb I had been dreading

The worst bit was final 15 miles heading towards the beach and then down the promenade with those headwinds! Took like 2 hours to cover 15 miles :oops:

Loved it, 8 of us raised £2k for christies and will be doing it again next year.

jimmypippa

Said hello to Gaz somewhere near the start (about 10-miles in). (Gaz, I was the person who introduced myself as "Jim", which is my real name, as opposed to a school nickname...).

Some of my 126-colleagues saw the guy who had been hit by the car, he was snorting the happy stuff in the ambulance.

There was a lot of headwind at the end, but my commute was obviously good training, so the worst part for me was the 8-miles on my knackered mountain bike to a colleague to give me a lift at the morning....


Hope everyone enjoyed themselves

attica

Many congratulations Gaz, I'm looking forward to reading the full report.

It's probably a good idea to set yourself another target to aim for now, I find it so much easier to train when it's for a specific event. a few more metric centuries and you'll be contemplating an imperial!!! Go Gaz Go!

gb155

Morning all, Thanks for the kind word, Apart from sore shoulders and sun burn I actually feel ok this morning.

Thanks for saying Hi Jim.

Also thanks to the forum meber that stopped after the accident I was involved in, Im really sorry but I can remeber your name with everything that went on, So please stand and raise your hand

Right Im off to write the report as im off work today, I also have 60 mins worth of helmet camera footage to edit too

SEE YOU ALL NEXT YEAR

Agent57

gb155 wrote:

Also thanks to the forum meber that stopped after the accident I was involved in, Im really sorry but I can remeber your name with everything that went on, So please stand and raise your hand

Unless anyone else did, that was me (black & white "skeleton" jersey, and I was wearing the tan musette I have in my avatar). Now you've given away the "special circumstances" I hinted at in my earlier post. Looking forward to the report.

gb155

Agent57 wrote:

gb155 wrote:

Also thanks to the forum meber that stopped after the accident I was involved in, Im really sorry but I can remeber your name with everything that went on, So please stand and raise your hand

Unless anyone else did, that was me (black & white "skeleton" jersey, and I was wearing the tan musette I have in my avatar). Now you've given away the "special circumstances" I hinted at in my earlier post. Looking forward to the report.

Report just finished and yes it was YOU , Thanks again for stopping mate