Bloody AUK

[Helen Deborah Vecht]

"Simon Bennett" <[email protected]>typed


> MartinM wrote:

> > I think he climbed off last time; I spoke to him a couple of years
> > ago. But that was due to lack of food IIRC.

> I don't understand that; if you're suffering from a lack of food, why not
> just eat something? It works for me; if I'm bonking, or close to bonking, 5
> minutes after eating, I'm ready to go. Or is the situation different on
> really long rides?


Not everyone can absorb food if they continue exercising.
Some feel tired/nauseous/sick and can't eat.

Some throw up...

The trick is to know what you can eat when it's cold and dark, you've
been on the road over 24 hours without sleep, it's starting to rain and
you can see ships on the horizon... in the Midlands...

--
Helen D. Vecht: [email protected]
Edgware.

 

[MartinM]

Arthur Clune wrote:

> PBP also has a proper race group. I forget what time the winners do but
> it's damm fast - 49 hours or so.

from my handbook (arrived today);

6 riders finished in 44h40 in 2003;

303 British riders finished out of 346

the youngest female rider at all was of course Chloe Williams


and also;

Chapeau to Mssrs Bennett and Kahn of this parish for getting into the
AAA hall of fame
;-)
No urc RRTY's AFAICT (yet!)

 

[MartinM]

MartinM wrote:

> No urc RRTY's AFAICT (yet!)

unless you count Nik (x2) ;-)

 

[MartinM]

MartinM wrote:

> No urc RRTY's AFAICT (yet!)

apart from Nik of course (4 times)

 

[Helen Deborah Vecht]

"MartinM" <[email protected]>typed


> MartinM wrote:

> > No urc RRTY's AFAICT (yet!)

> apart from Nik of course (4 times)

RRTY x 4 must mean doing a randonnée just about every week; EEEK!

--
Helen D. Vecht: [email protected]
Edgware.

 

[Dave Larrington]

In article <[email protected]>, Helen Deborah
Vecht ([email protected]) wrote:
> "MartinM" <[email protected]>typed
>
>
> > MartinM wrote:
>
> > > No urc RRTY's AFAICT (yet!)
>
> > apart from Nik of course (4 times)
>
> RRTY x 4 must mean doing a randonnée just about every week; EEEK!

Nik's is RRTY in four consecutive years rather than 48 in one year.
Mike Wigley mentioned on the AUK mailing list the other week that Phil
Dyson had recently completed the first "Double RRTY" with 2 x randonnées
in 12 consecutive months (and all calendar events too).

--
Dave Larrington - <http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk/>
My other motto is in Latin.