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Early start to head over to Colchester from home for the Colchester CTC 100km event.  Cold morning and almost dark as I left I had plotted the “quickest” route (24miles) I could stand which involved travelling along side the A12 for some sections, ice cold feet but a spectacular sunrise made up for all that.
Got to the event just after 08:00, signed on and went for a cuppa.  The main event started off well at 09:00, I was aiming to stick to a 13-14mph pace and have a bit of time at Wallys and Finchingfield for refreshments..   A wrong turn by the fast bunch at the front meant I turned and found myself after a quick downhill leading the run out with a bunch behind me and we tapped out a good 17-18mph ave until I couldn’t take any more, by the time this fast chain gang made it to Wallys I was ready for a cuppa so peeled off and left them to it, I was 15 mins ahead of schedule! 
More matches were burnt between Acton and Finchingfield, with refreshments been taken at the Red Lion whilst we watched the E’tap London event hammering it up the hill.  
From then it was a battle for just under 50k in to a headwind, and the “rolling” countryside around Bures to contend with… lots of full size gliders helped me along but I was alone for most of it, so no one to shelter and work with through the wind. For some reason the Garmin navigation whilst still showing the correct route and control waypoints decided I had another 79+ km to go, I suspect this was the Garmin getting confused by crossing the outbound and inbound parts of the route. 
I eventually rolled in to the finish for tea and cake with a total time of 05h40m (from my GPS) with about 1 hour of that sat drinking tea on the route.  
After setting off and a run in with a muppet on the road through Stanway, I made my way through the lanes home to Chelmsford… at Sandon I decided to add some km’s on to make the expected 190 in to a 200km ride… this took its toll on my arms, hands and backside, but after some crafted loops around Baddow and Gallywood I’d done about 32 miles, I made it in for just over 201km!

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Colchester CTC 100km and my first 200km ride!

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