I rode when it was 40° last year 
I don’t mind the heat.
Or the cold.
I do like to moan about both. 
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I find audaxes can be good for some long rides. Route is sorted, always have planned cafe stops, usually less than a tenner and some company. Like @Poet I can get sick of it when riding on my own. A combination of boredom, sick of being in my head when those little points of discomfort that can overtake all other thoughts.
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The ride out of London at the crack of dawn would be the best way to do that - grim at any other time!
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Looking at trains and stuff. The ride out would start at about 1/2 am! So should be pretty quiet!
I’ve got mates who are keen, so wouldn’t be solo.
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Have you got a screenshot of the route?
I’d wait until there’s an easterly!
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Yeah, I’m with Jeff here.
Prevailing wind is from the west here, so doing 325km into a headwind would be utterly grim.
My “standard” flat 100/161 routes head towards the Welsh border, which is net downhill, into the prevailing wind.
It’s then slight uphill and tailwind home.
Generally, I manage an even split on the two routes.
325km should only take 14 hours moving time.
About two hour cafe stops.
Set off at 4am, back by 8pm 
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Haven’t looked at it in any depth at all. Was just the route Komoot chose for me.
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I did an out and back to the coast… And the wind kindly swung round. Reckon I only did 30k into any wind.
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10…
Goes past my gaff that 
Fraid I can’t offer to join you though. Nice route.
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If I was doing that ride, I’d go west and then south, rather than southwest, flat in the Exe Valley at the end, and not over the hills at Hook etc. at the start, it’ll be longer, but it’ll be so much flatter.
Axminster to Budleigh with 300km in your legs, I’m out.
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It did have Peak Hill in the last 10km, but I removed that!
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That route out of London isn’t pleasant and actually, the A30 all the way to Basingstoke is shit too. I’ve ridden from my gaff to Basingstoke once on that road, wouldn’t fancy it again!
A local club do an audax to Stone Henge, I wonder if any of that route would be better suited, I’ll have a look
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yeah, there’s loads of better ways from west london to salsibury areas, but I’d do the flat route to Twyford (easy 20mph route from west london) then along the river to Hungerford, Devizes which has to be pretty flat, and there looks to be good options, down to wells, then across the levels, turn south somewhere to go past dunkeswell and down through Ottery etc.
But that’s 'cos I’d really be avoiding hills, rather than distance.
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But he’s training for IM Wales. There is no avoiding hills then.
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I think you can be forgiven when you’re clocking over 300 km in one hit!
I think you’re right @JibberJim heading out west is probably best. The route i was thinking of is one of the KW audax rides - their way takes in a lot of A31 so screw that!
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Plenty of time for hills after June! And we’re not in short supply of them here. It’s very simialr terrain to Pembs to be fair.
Cheers @adam and @JibberJim. I’ll research those options. It may not come to anything, but it’s fun looking into it.
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The man talketh sense. I’m usually averaging about 22km/h on my rides. this obviously depends on the amount of tarmac vs off road and hills.
Almost seems pointless setting goals when things have shifted so much but here goes
- Keep weight <70kg
- 20:xx 10mile TT
- London Marathon <3:10
- Outlaw Half - podium
- 70.3 Staffs - turn down WC slot
- IM UK - top 8 AG (outside shot of Nice WC which I’ll take if offered)
- 70.3 Weymouth - podium (this race will get deferred if Nice comes off)
- Have fun, keep being an arse on here, start Zwift TTT’s again and do the Cotswold 113 TT sausage fest if it happens for shit and giggles even though the timing is wrong.
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