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Thanks for the kind words Josh, leaving at twenty to seven was much better than previous years as the initial climbs had not had time to clog up.
Previously the earliest that I’ve left is 9, and a lot of the riding time was spent standing around, then shuffling forwards very slowly as the chokepoints cleared.
It looks like I averaged 15mph for the first hour (Clapham Common to the M25 01:04:48/15.67miles), then the next forty miles took two hours, so fairly obviously ~20mph average. The first hour was spent dodging nodders who were enthusiastically weaving left and right without looking, I had passed a lot of those by the time we went under the M25.
If I hit the road at 6am next year and maintain 20mph I should do it in 2 hours and forty five minutes.
At least this time I was not beaten by people dressed as cows on a tandem.
What yesterday really did bring home was that if I had been in a small bunch of people taking turns at the front then a sub two and a half hour time would be fairly easy to achieve- on your own, into the wind you have plenty of time to wish for someone to tuck in behind.