3 Pistes 31st May
bobmcstuff
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Who's doing it? Weather looking like it could be a bit mixed...
I'm doing it with a pal who's never done a 100 miler before, so it'll be a getting round job rather than a fast one. Staying on a hostel in Pitlochry on the Saturday night.
I'm doing it with a pal who's never done a 100 miler before, so it'll be a getting round job rather than a fast one. Staying on a hostel in Pitlochry on the Saturday night.
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Should be a good challenge!
The weather, I mean, not my performance which was a bit pathetic... 8 hrs on-bike time! I found the headwinds a bit much in the second half, particularly the gale-force one coming up the 20% bit on the Lecht. Saw someone get blown over - and he was just walking his bike up!
Great event, great route, great day.
No way will you catch me trying that again... well, maybe... OK, book me in for next year!
My moving time was 7h28 but was on the course for a lot longer. My mate got round OK - what a route for a first century! There's a photo of the two of us on the Cairngorm facebook page, see if you can spot us...
I'd been preparing for some hard conditions but was expecting the cold & wet variety rather than the vicious headwind & sunshine the last 40 miles gave us.
I think it should be renamed 3 Pistes (+ 4 other thigh burning climbs) & 4 seasons of weather.
I really enjoyed it - I knew it was going to be tough and it certainly was. There was some chat on our bus back whether it was tougher than this year's Fred. The consensus was yes.
See you next year, if the legs have recovered...
For some bizarre reason I cannot log into my old account and it won't send me new password details.
Thanks to everyone who rode yesterday. It was brutal, but great.
Tougher the The Fred??? Hell YES!!!
Results are up
https://3pistescycle.wordpress.com/2015/06/01/thank-you-results-next-year-and/
See you all next year, on BBC Adventure Show... or sooner
3 Pistes 2016 - Bank Holiday Sunday 29th May 2016
EDIT: on closer examination it's not. Oh well.
My hill climb position should have been much better, I promised my mate I'd wait for him and we'd cross the line together (n'aww), somehow managed to put 10min 32s into him between the snow gates and just before the finish (I'm putting it down to having 2 high caffeine gels in rapid succession!). Was freezing by the time he got there.
Would have been 18th overall in the hill climb if I hadn't waited
Brilliant photo essay from Jay Golian.
https://jaygolian.exposure.co/three-pistes
perhaps he decided to go home before it got dark :oops: