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Xia
Joined: 06 Apr 2004
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Location: Geneva (Suisse)
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2007: 5:16
2008: 4:48
Nuff said..... for now! |
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Natasha
Joined: 09 Jul 2004
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Location: Basingstoke
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| Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 8:38 am Subject: |
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| Cor, sounds like a great time was had by all! Well done chaps! |
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Monty Dog
Joined: 09 Jul 2007
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| What a great event! There are more volunteers than competitors so there's an fantastic amount of support and it's staggeringly well organised as only the Swiss could do. I started slowly - still not used to pacelines - & once downhill to Robin Hood gate in RP makes me a bit of a scaredy-cat on downhills! The course is a like a big U in profile - you start up high, downhill to an extended flat section before rising up to the turn-around & do much of the outward course in reverse. I didn't press too hard, tight hamstrings at the beginning and niggling footpains from Goodwood forced me to hold back, but meant I was still fairly fresh when I got to 80k in 3 hours, I realised 4:30 was achievable. I was kinda glad I didn't know the extent of the climbs to the finish - I had one Swiss guy follow me from about 90km - he kept saying he didn't know either - liar! Unfinished business - gonna have to try for sub 4-hrs and top 20 age-group finish! |
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AlastairJ
Joined: 07 Mar 2004
Posts: 285
Location: Southfields, SW London
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| Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 8:39 pm Subject: |
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| Rick has captured the essentials well. The scenery was beautiful, and the weather perfect. The roads are very smooth, except for one or two parts. We passed through scores of villages and tiny hamlets where it seemed that the entire population had turned out to cheer us on! The final unrelenting ascent through the interminable suburbs of St Gallen was tough, but memory is highly selective and pain is quickly forgotten, otherwise we would all give up on skating (and life)! A good one to finish, warmly contemplating that it is possible to skate 111 kms non-stop! |
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Alan
Joined: 19 Sep 2005
Posts: 642
Location: Hackney, London
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| Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 9:21 pm Subject: |
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My time officially is 05.22.54. (I was so tired I forgot to stop my watch!). 454th overall out of 529 male finishers; 80th out of 102 finishers in the over 50 cat. (there was no over 60 cat; although my unofficial count is 10th out of 12 finishers of the over 60's)
So a bit disappointed with my time etc.
As the others say, it was faultlessly organised - well apart from the lack of loos in the sports hall - the weather was perfect, sunny, no noticeable wind and wonderful country side to skate through. I really enjoyed it particularly the 3rd hour when I felt like I was really in the "zone" and the surfaces and inclines were perfect, that is up until the last 10k which seemed to go on for ever.
I vowed I wouldn't do it again afterwards but today I'm not so sure.  |
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Natasha
Joined: 09 Jul 2004
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Location: Basingstoke
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| Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 10:07 am Subject: |
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Come and do it again with me next year Alan, we'll take a Hans with us for bottle carrying and singing to us in the last 10k!
You had no rain at all, not even a bit of drizzle?  |
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Xia
Joined: 06 Apr 2004
Posts: 874
Location: Geneva (Suisse)
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| Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 11:09 am Subject: |
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ne, lovely weather all the way along. Got some bottles for you in exchange of eternal love...
Next year, I'm planning in doing it in 6h30 just to really enjoy the route instead of racing it. |
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Martyzz1
Joined: 10 Aug 2006
Posts: 358
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| Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 3:21 pm Subject: |
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Well done everybody...
* feels the temptation * |
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