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Just remind me what time we need to meet you in the pub afterwards
Which bit are we meeting at again? Such a shame I am missing a free evening at a posh hotel with all food & unlimited booze paid for the night before. And you accuse me of a lack of commitment?
Though with my current training, I may be a tad slow.
I'm still managing to make it to work meal at Denbies the evening before Dustboy, getting pissed and exercising with a hangover don't have to be mutually exclusive!
News at ten bong....
"Rangers at Richmond Park, one of the great Royal Parks, have been baffled by a ditch of vile smelling putrid vomit which has appeared by a roundabout in the lead up to Christmas. A group of oddly dressed teenagers on bikes are thought to be to blame as some sort of Christmas prank.
They appeared to be chasing each other, out of their minds on Haribo and Red Bull to try and stave off the effects of WKD from the night before.
Though a bizarre sign on a tree said, "Kanga's lot have been on the piss again"
LOL.
OK, to recap the story so far. A free, badly organised, at your own risk, more-training-than-racing session very loosely modelled on the Ball Buster format. Changed to Roehampton Gate for the indoor cafe and new improved bike hire/repair place. Depending on how many starters we have, and the range of fitness, motivation, and hangover on display, peeps might want to go around in paced groups like our usual sportive approach. Whatever works for you ! FWIW BallBuster took me just under four hours, so I'm budgeting the same for this.
The Ball Bruiser
- Richmond Park, Saturday December 18th. Meet 09:30 to start at 10:00ish
- Duathlon – 1 x run lap, 3 x ride lap, 1 x ride lap. About 37 miles all up.
- Clockwise laps. Run lap is 7.35 miles, map here http://www.richmondparklondon.co.uk/running
- MTB or road bike/course, your choice, but the MTB path is shared bike/pedestrian path with pedestrian priority. Think most peeps will be on road bikes.
- Start/Finish at Roehampton Gate. Set your satnav to Richmond Park Golf Club, Priory Lane, London SW15 5JR. Trains from Richmond/Putney, Tubes from East Putney
- Relay and/or part distance gaylords welcome
- Self supporting, no aid stations around the course (but it's only 7 miles FFS!)
Facilities at start/transition
- Free car parking, toilets, café and bike hire/repair shop
- Ditchy’s cakes
- Fresh venison roadkill
- Official Pirate Aid Station Sherpas/bike guardians/cake dispensers, as featured at The Outlaw
- A couple of discrete Pirate flags – who’s got them ?
PM me if you need my mobile number.
Hard Core Aferletes, Innit ?
Kanga
Melds
Ditchy I think
OC/SB
Ferret
Dustboy (works Xmas do the night before, now I have to be up early, I cant go to it
AliAird hopefully
BHflyer maybe
Jaffa all being well
Flat Footed
TommyGun2
Lurkers
Funkin ?
KK
LittleSister+1
Cake
Trogs
Cake Dispensers/Tassle Twirlers
Saffers & Mr Saffers
Schmunkee
Soupy (possibly bike guardian/cake dispenser)
Mrs TG2 and kids
Buckerers - The List of Shame
Dont find yourself here !
Long term forecast snow and minus 3. Methinks a few minor alterations to schedule may be in order.
Do Australians know it's not 25 degrees C here in December?
I think I may just adapt the aero Pringle idea to aero Thermos of soup. On the other hand, this could be an ultra wicked event! Looking forward to the run, well the first one anyway, we'll see what happens from there...
Or the pub....
Love the shooting idea, so what, you just potshot at pirates and tally up at the end of the day ? Before the pub?
Erm, I appear to have promised a man from one of my temp jobs that I will meet him in a carpark in Surrey to go MTBing since he knows what he is doing and I don't (he's having a new knee for Christmas, so has to be this weekend)......but should be back in time for the afternoon tea / pub. What time will you be in the pub?
Alternatively, if anyone wants to come MTBing, very welcome.
Hard Core Aferletes, Innit ?
Kanga
Melds
OC/SB
Ferret
Dustboy (works Xmas do the night before, now I have to be up early, I cant go to it
AliAird hopefully
BHflyer maybe
Jaffa all being well
Flat Footed
TommyGun2
Lurkers
Funkin ?
KK
LittleSister+1
Cake
Trogs
Cake Dispensers/Tassle Twirlers
Saffers & Mr Saffers
Schmunkee
Soupy (possibly bike guardian/cake dispenser)
Mrs TG2 and kids
Buckerers - The List of Shame
Ditchy, but hoping to make the pub!
I too am keeping an eye on the weather and also amlooking at some swim coaching in Coventry.
But whatever I do will be dependent on the weather
If it gets a bit ugly we could maybe skip the bike and just run 2-3 laps before pubbing it ?
Looks like it's going to be a bike free one. Does that make it a monathlon ?
Have rainchecked on my planned MTB ride - whilst MTBing on freshly fallen snow is fun, attempting it with 20mph winds whilst the snow is falling heavily is probably not so good!
Weather for Sunday looks a lot better, why not reschedule - running on fresh snow will be ace? I need to run two laps on Sunday anyway, would be good to have a posse and tea and cake after!
I cant risk more snow on Saturday as I am on nights and we are under strict instructions that our journey in to work is absolutely neccessary !!