“I’d do anything to get on TV” 
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They still did it 2019, which was the last “proper” running and I’d be surprised if they have stopped it - lots of people love to see this info and I can’t imagine it’s very difficult to compose.
The results are still down as ‘awaiting organiser submission’ on Power of 10, so I’d imagine they’re just verifying everything before publish
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Hope so then 
I don’t recall seeing them, whereabouts are the 2019 runpix?
I know someone that used the previous years number a few years back now, ducked in just after start, jumped out at Big Ben. Just wanted to experience event rather than get a medal.
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I know folks who did the same for ride London. Join in and then leave as the route comes in and out of Kingston. Saying that the carless roads of London were the best bit
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For me, the urban bits in and out of London were the best bit of RideLondon. You don’t get many opportunities to ride like a complete hooligan in central London.
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Absolutely
One year I stupidly hit the front going down the highway. It was glorious for about a minute or two ‘leading’ 
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That wasn’t the year that the lead car took the front group down the Blackwall Tunnel by mistake then?
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Unless you work for Deliveroo!
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That was the first year wasn’t it?
Think all affected got a free ride the next year
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For amusement I scraped the results and checked runners with running numbers below 2000 (I assumed that would cover most champs start) and got 38% female runners…so I was obviously stood in the sausage fest part
Kind of interesting looking at peoples half way splits and final finish times. Lots of big positive splits even at the pointy end.
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That was the year I did it. I was not such a bad cyclist back then, but that (ex) lead group came past our pretty swiftly moving group as if we were riding up Leith Hill not riding along the embankment…
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Yeah, they caught my group at Hampton Court. The pace in our group was starting to flag a bit and the number of people willing to have a go on the front was diminishing, so it was a welcome relief to have a strong group to latch onto, until I got dropped at Newlands
Yes, that’s right. A couple of my mates were in that front group and got the free ride the next year.
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Nice!!
Or were you just sandbagging the first half 
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If I’d have run the first half at the pace of the second half then I would have detonated after 30k.
Evidence: my previous 5/6 marathons……
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Well jealous of that pacing. I’m glad to hear that it normally takes people a few to get it ‘right’. I’ve still got 4 detonations to get through before it should click
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….but that runner that passed me in the last 7k must have been a sandbagging b£&@€€d……
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The key (for me) was to start slowly within 140-145bpm range and keep within that to halfway.
I’d have to do a ‘quiet’ first half - ignore the crowd, just concentrate on the ground in front and keep relaxed and low key. Zone out while running.
That always gave me the resources to increase pace, or at least hold for the second half. Plus having zoned out of the race and crowd you can use them in the second half - feels immense when you start absorbing crowd noise and passing all the detonated runners ahead.
I’d also practise by doing 10 x 1 minute, or 5 x 2mins etc at marathon pace right at the end of long slow runs.
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