Thorne - Edinburgh

in message <[email hidden]>, MSeries

(') said:

A few months ago MartinM and I cooked up an idea of riding from Thorne
to Edniburgh one night following the LEL route. We have decided to do
it as a 400km Permanent under AUK rules. Anyone care to join us for
part or all of the journey ? Here is a page with some details on.

http://www.mseries.plus.com/Thorne-Edinburgh.html

Three of us have already made some arrangements for travel and
accommodation so date and time is not negotiable I am afraid.

I'm hoping, but I doubt I can get up to an appropriate level of fitness
in time.

--
[email hidden] (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/

;; Good grief, I can remember when England won the Ashes.

MSeries said:

A few months ago MartinM and I cooked up an idea of riding from Thorne
to Edniburgh one night following the LEL route. We have decided to do
it as a 400km Permanent under AUK rules. Anyone care to join us for
part or all of the journey ? Here is a page with some details on.

As I'm going to miss the 400 I was intending to do (my brother, the
thoughtless sod, is getting married that day), it looks like a possibility.
Awaiting permission from local management.

Simon

Simon Bennett said:

MSeries said:

A few months ago MartinM and I cooked up an idea of riding from Thorne
to Edniburgh one night following the LEL route. We have decided to do
it as a 400km Permanent under AUK rules. Anyone care to join us for
part or all of the journey ? Here is a page with some details on.

As I'm going to miss the 400 I was intending to do (my brother, the
thoughtless sod, is getting married that day), it looks like a possibility.
Awaiting permission from local management.

Simon

Send me an email if/when you are in, and I'll make sure you get the
final rendezvous instructions.

Simon Brooke said:

in message <[email hidden]>, MSeries

(') said:

A few months ago MartinM and I cooked up an idea of riding from Thorne
to Edniburgh one night following the LEL route. We have decided to do
it as a 400km Permanent under AUK rules. Anyone care to join us for
part or all of the journey ? Here is a page with some details on.

http://www.mseries.plus.com/Thorne-Edinburgh.html

Three of us have already made some arrangements for travel and
accommodation so date and time is not negotiable I am afraid.

I'm hoping, but I doubt I can get up to an appropriate level of fitness
in time.

I'm now seriously doubtful. Family and health have kept me far behind
where I wanted to be fitness wise, And I am now struggling with a bad
neck with which riding any distance at any speed is painful. Maybe it
is time to build a darksider..

...d

David Martin said:

Simon Brooke said:

in message <[email hidden]>, MSeries

(') said:

A few months ago MartinM and I cooked up an idea of riding from Thorne
to Edniburgh one night following the LEL route. We have decided to do
it as a 400km Permanent under AUK rules. Anyone care to join us for
part or all of the journey ? Here is a page with some details on.

http://www.mseries.plus.com/Thorne-Edinburgh.html

Three of us have already made some arrangements for travel and
accommodation so date and time is not negotiable I am afraid.

I'm hoping, but I doubt I can get up to an appropriate level of fitness
in time.

I'm now seriously doubtful. Family and health have kept me far behind
where I wanted to be fitness wise, And I am now struggling with a bad
neck with which riding any distance at any speed is painful. Maybe it
is time to build a darksider..

..d

Feel free to arrange to join us for part of the ride, same goes to you
Simon. We can swap phone numbers and try[1] to let you know etas at
certain points.

[1]I know the reception in some remote parts is lacking.

Simon Bennett said:

MSeries said:

A few months ago MartinM and I cooked up an idea of riding from Thorne
to Edniburgh one night following the LEL route. We have decided to do
it as a 400km Permanent under AUK rules. Anyone care to join us for
part or all of the journey ? Here is a page with some details on.

As I'm going to miss the 400 I was intending to do (my brother, the
thoughtless sod, is getting married that day), it looks like a possibility.
Awaiting permission from local management.

go for it; I got a train ticket up to Doncaster for £9.50; the plane
back from Edinburgh was a lot more but what the heck. Scenery looks
wonderful.

MSeries; I assume I just enter the controls on the back of the entry
form?

MartinM said:

MSeries; I assume I just enter the controls on the back of the entry
form?

I think so. I have entered some other DIY perms but not had the cards
so far and obviously not ridden the rides. Sheila asks for a months
notice so we have plenty of time, not like the ride will fill up !!!
Once I have done my first DIY Perm (march or Aprl) I'll be able to
explain the proces properly, going by Sheilas document which is in
Arrivee thats all you need to do though.

MSeries said:

Send me an email if/when you are in, and I'll make sure you get the
final rendezvous instructions.

YHM.

MSeries said:

Feel free to arrange to join us for part of the ride, same goes to you
Simon.

I have received my permanent Brevet Card back for the ride; all I did
to enter was send Sheila Simpson a normal entry form with the route and
control details printed on the back from MSeries' web page, plus £2
and a SAE. If you want to join us for all or part of it just amend the
controls accordingly. I imagine not using the 'official' controls will
be too complictaed, they are not the real LEL controls as it is. You
can of course make up your own route from the LEL route to suit as long
as the distance is accurate and cannot be cut short.

That's assuming you want it credited as an AUK ride; if not just turn
up and ride.

MartinM said:

That's assuming you want it credited as an AUK ride; if not just turn
up and ride.

I won't be doing it. There is no way I can go from my current state[1]
to fit enough in 6 weeks.

Enjoy!

...d

[1] Persistent on/off sinusitis for two months. Left me feeling like
[censored] just riding 2 miles home (OK, there is a hill in there). Now
knocked on the head thanks antibiotics, but the longest ride I have
done this year so far is under 40 miles and I don't intend to start an
intensive training schedule.. Might be up to a 150 by then, but not a
400.

...d