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Velo Birmingham Results - Ranked if you are curious
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If any of you wanted to see the Velo Birmingham results in a more searchable format with ranking I have put them on my homebrew 1 page website. Scroll to the very bottom or just press Ctrl + End to jump to the bottom of the site.
To search just click on the down arrow on the right of yellow name cell. Click on text filters "contains" and enter the name. eg Dan Lloyd from GCN was 83rd.
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The first three people in that file, who are listed as finishing in 3:57, did they really stick over 30 minutes into all of the rest of the field?
Seems unlikely - that's as fast as the quickest Ride London time, yet with more 600m more climbing and with only a peloton of three at that pace.
If it's genuine then those ladies should turn pro!
I just updated the results and those ladies are no longer going pro I'm afraid.
Interesting how the results change over a week for something that should be 100% automated.
nah, you can see from the splits that they didn't complete all the sections.
5h29 and 553rd for me, would have been less if we hadn't been on a mission to find an espresso at the pub at the last stop
Tidied it up to make it easier to find. Either scroll to the bottom or press Ctrl + End key or text search "Velo"
http://www.epo.me.uk/
If you don't fancy playing with Excel yourself, here's a graph of percentage ranking vs finishing times (it's actually the cumulative density function). For example, if you finished in 7h23m you are average (top 50%). I've excluded DNFs.
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Found it in the end. Was blocked by Adblock Plus
Top 300 - not bad considering I didn't really ride it quickly, and stopped at three food stops. Overall, I was disappointed with the route tbh - thought it would have more 'real' climbing in it, and the 'KOM' was nothing more than a lump - I do bigger climbs on my commute
A friend told me how the feed stops ran out of food and water, so they were reduced to knocking on people's doors to beg for bottle refills. Ridiculous and amateur logistics from the organisers.
Really not sure about the truth in this....Mamypeople kindly set up trestle tables outside their houses stocked with water, juice & even beer, no need to knock on doors.
Not sure about the organisers being badly prepared but if you can’t ride for more than 25 miles into a 100 mile event without having to stock up on water, gels & food then you probably need to sort your own shit out as well?
I kind of see both sides to this. An event of this nature will attract lots of non-regular riders in the same way the London marathon does - so if you're a relatively inexperienced cyclist with not many miles in your legs then taking the opportunity to stop every 20 miles is probably welcome. That said, I did see plenty of riders without water bottles, which is just madness. Personally, I don't want to stop unless I absolutely have to, which is usually prompted by a comfort break!
The 55 mike stop that ran out of food and water.
The staff at the stop gave the excuse that not enough people stopped at the 25 mile stop and then stocked up at the 55 more than expected and planned for.
I saw people stopping at a garage for supplies so I can easily believe some knocked on doors; why would you doubt that?
Given your final comment it absolutely was poor planning.
Erm, I'm not sure why you're questioning the "truth" in this. The friend that I referred to is an experienced rider. Do you think he was lying when he told me that more than one food stop had run out and there was no water available? Plenty of residents were very kindly helping out riders, but this sort of thing shouldn't have happened. It was water that was more of a problem than food, obviously, because it's kind of difficult to carry enough water for a 100 mile sportive, right? It's absolutely poor organisation, there's no excuse for it at all. Organisers should know that some riders will be well prepared and some won't, and to be cater for everyone.
Other option I've just found is to go to the Velo Birmingham site, go to results, click review results and select the download link (little down arrow at the right). You then get a spreadsheet and load it into Excel/Numbers.
Nope, I can't see it either. All I see is a site full of links, with a search not bringing up any results for 'Velo', 'Birmingham' or 'Results'
Scroll all the way down to the bottom. It is an online Excel file that you search on.
PS Just just added some text above to make it easier to find as a text search
Top 25% - quite happy with that for my first 100
I was also in A3 and there were definitely a few points where the road was too narrow. I didn't find the field really spread out until the last 20 miles.
My impressions were that it was pretty well organised with a few annoyances. Picking up the pack was simple enough although no reason why it couldn't have been posted - I suspect local politics were in play here to get people into the city.
Could have done with better information on the day as to why the start was delayed - I didn't find out until well afterwards and I suspect people would have been more understanding while waiting in the cold. Thank goodness it wasn't raining.
I didn't stop until about mile 63 but I understand that feed stops ran out of food and water. The latter is unforgiveable.
I found the route challenging but not impossible but from some of the comments on Facebook it seems like several participants were surprised by how tough some parts were.
The end was a little chaotic but the free beer was very welcome. I'd certainly do it again and it sounds like the organisers have taken feedback on board.
At the very bottom of the page, past all the adverts...
am i missing something, cant see anything velo related on the link provided
Some sections of road were a bit tight and narrow for the amount of bikes and those parts tended to be the steep sections. Lots say the route was harder than ride London.
Sooo....what was the general road-occupancy like ? It seems to be yet another closed-road event where recumbents are banned for no particularly good reason - especially since tandems are allowed and they have probably a similar speed dynamic to 'bents. Even Ridel London now allow them after a trial last (?) year (and tandems the previous year).
I was in an early wave - A3, supposedly starting at 7:30 - and it was pretty crowded for much of the course. Unlike RideLondon, which benefits from wide London roads at the start before things thin out, the B'Ham Velo was mostly on narrow two lane residential roads and country lanes. I certainly felt that I needed to slow down at times to feel safe.
I thought it was a great day out -I worked out I must have passed 6000 people having started at the back- spent most of the ride on the right hand side it's a great day out flying through red lights and junctions towns villages without being bothered about by cars etc and not breathing in exhaust fumes on climbs. Having started at the back the folk in front got all the puncture s and I got motivation in folk to pass and wheels to ride in.
If you can do 50miles you can do 100. Just put your name down for next year and you'll be doing it.
Would be keen to hear if people enjoyed the event, but not sure if I am yet up to doing 100 miles in one day
I did! A good day out despite some teething troubles. This was my second 100 mile event this year (I did RideLondon too) and my second ever. My longest training ride was about 100k (62 miles) although I was doing 80+ miles a weekend quite regularly. Worst problem on the day was neck and back pain. Endurance was fine although I could've done without the hill at mile 80ish!