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Dartmoor Classic Sportive 2012. its coming!

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  • June 14, 2012 at 6:20 pm #16080
    russyparkin

    right, its 2 weeks away. looking out my window though its the last thing i want to be doing.

    whos down for it then?and hows the prep been?

    russ

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  • June 25, 2012 at 9:27 pm #687323
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    russyparkin

    SideBurn wrote:I will drink

    SideBurn wrote:
    I will drink to that! And have a small piece of cheddar!

    cheese makes the world go round

    June 25, 2012 at 9:25 pm #687321
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    SideBurn

    I will drink to that! And
    I will drink to that! And have a small piece of cheddar!

    June 25, 2012 at 9:20 pm #687319
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    russyparkin

    ha yeah reckon i need to
    ha yeah reckon i need to shift 1 more stone and get another 2-3 inches on the legs. that would mean no beer or cheese so i will happily have a rack of silvers instead 🙂

    June 25, 2012 at 9:18 pm #687317
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    SideBurn

    Next year….Gold But I said
    Next year….Gold B-) But I said that last year, and the year before and the year before that 😐

    June 25, 2012 at 9:11 pm #687315
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    russyparkin

    ha ha, it was a bit of road i
    ha ha, it was a bit of road i have never done in the dry with a bit of brain fade and indeed probably a bit of gold fever 🙂 funnily enough about 3-4 miles later i decided gold was not going to happen… amazing event though, weather was almost perfect as at the end i was cycling through the remaining puddles to cool down 🙂

    June 25, 2012 at 9:01 pm #687313
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    SideBurn

    Ouch lots of ouch and
    Ouch 🙁 lots of ouch 🙁 🙁 and what happened to your local knowledge 😕 Gold medal fever?

    June 25, 2012 at 8:52 pm #687311
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    russyparkin

    a lady collided with a car
    a lady collided with a car near mortonhamstead on the 100 mile, a dude had a massive incident on a cattle grid, broken face and shoulder on the 65 miler.

    i overcooked a corner 81 miles in but the wall and grass gods were kind and i just happened to slip off the road in the perfect place with no contact. through to carcass on my rear tyre though 🙁

    June 25, 2012 at 8:33 pm #687309
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    SideBurn

    My climbing ability is coming
    My climbing ability is coming back; hooray! Saw a lot of people who seemed new to cycling but the only a**ehole was having a wee whilst sitting on his bike on the tarmac halfway up a climb…why? Does ‘doing an event’ mean that you can commit a public order offence? But he was not as bad as someone having a wee against someones front gate in Lydford a couple of years ago; how to give cyclists a good name? As well as plenty of litter despite the organisers begging people not to litter or urinate irresponsibly! Today I saw the ‘Tavistock Taskforce’ collecting litter along the route; bet they love cyclists now! But I did see a nasty accident, an ambulance and police car on blues and other emergency vehicles looking like they were on the way to incidents…anyone know if there were any significant incidents?

    June 25, 2012 at 7:44 pm #687307
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    livestrongnick

    Had a few moments when i
    Had a few moments when i thought i was Cav on stage 3 of the Giro, when Roberto Ferrari cut across him!! X(

    Too many riders cutting across each other on steep climbs :& and as for a certain larger rider (colnago bike) overtaking on a decent in the wet round a corner on the wrong side of the road…………gggrrrrrr X( X(

    June 25, 2012 at 7:31 pm #687305
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    Bagpuss

    Ah, I wasn’t riding it this
    Ah, I wasn’t riding it this year, we’d come down off the moor on the B/W from Nuns Cross to Princetown, hence the mud. Stopped at the roundabout to cheer a few on before warming up in the cafe.

    And loads of respect for those who did it on any bike.

    Nice work Russ, sub 7 hours with that weather to start.

    June 25, 2012 at 5:54 pm #687303
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    russyparkin

    i did 6hr 58 mins on the 100
    i did 6hr 58 mins on the 100 miler so was very pleased. i to acknowledged all the supporters (and there were lots of them!) 🙂 very well organised and extremely difficult but my local knowledge was priceless.

    set my PR on batterbridge, pork hill and merrivale so supremely happy.

    and only encountered one a+se hole on the way round so thats good going.

    russ

    June 25, 2012 at 5:03 pm #687301
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    SideBurn

    I got a lot of cheers bagpuss
    I got a lot of cheers bagpuss and thanked them for it! I think that doing this route on a mountain bike should get a special mention…there was not too many of you!

    June 25, 2012 at 4:58 pm #687299
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    SideBurn

    I think any medal was well
    I think any medal was well earned yesterday!! The harsh headwind in the morning was definately easing. The first 30 miles hurt!! You are right about the 600 that could not be bothered X( poor weather and lack of knowledge of rule 9 (above) could be an issue!

    June 25, 2012 at 4:57 pm #687297
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    Bagpuss

    Local knowledge.
    I was in
    Local knowledge. B-)

    I was in Princetown around 10 but as I was covered in mud and astride a mountain bike (can I say that here?), not one of the 100 mile riders even looked up as I cheered them on, hardly surprising given the weather. I retired to the cafe for a large coffee by the radiator before heading back into the mud.

    About time I did the 100 mile again, hear they’ve changed the goalposts so I should be able to get a silver next year in the old man category 😉

    June 25, 2012 at 4:52 pm #687295
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    livestrongnick

    Only managed bronze again
    Only managed bronze again (100km) but a much better time in last year 😀 even if the first 30 miles was a killer :”( X(
    push myself for that elusive silver next year…… 😕

    Plus with 2800 places available and sold; 600 riders still didn’t show up!!! X(

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