by BroomWagon
Sun May 21, 2006 8:14 pm
How did you get on, those that did the Etape Du Dales. It's the first cyclosportive I've done and I enjoyed it, or I should say I enjoyed it until the rain really started doing its thing. I'd hoped to get round in less than eight hours - to get the silver award, but ended up going round in 8hrs 9minutes. A bit gauling because I had a tube literally explode with the biggest bang I'd ever heard at the foot of a long steep descent (no patch could mend it now) I might have lost 10 minutes changing it, though I was pretty sharpish so I reckon I lost about 8 minutes - now would that be really annoying finishing in 8Hrs 01 minutes. Anyway, already looking forward to next year and I shall do it on my lighter bike and it will be sunny and dry, so I won't be so cowardly on the decents, so I will easily get in, in sub 8 hours - probably