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It feels OK actually, i did about 20km commute this morning without pain but i was riding softly. I spent Saturday and Sunday doing as much physio/recovery as humanly possible, I even went to a spa on Saturday evening (My sister got me into her gym) to do hot/cold therapy which seemed to help. I'm going to take this week lightly and not push any watts so hopefully it'll be ok. I managed 4 months without injury and that had a 54 hour week in, so I think I can get it back under control quickly.

I'm still gutted about having to scratch Further East but on the positive side, I know that post challenge I can be a lot stronger/faster with structured training and S&C.

Thanks Clive and for the donation :) I'm almost 2/3rds through now which is a great feeling

Are you still looking? I have a set of these which i'd be willing to sell

Same knee as before. It was the off road as it was pretty bumpy, i was definitely carrying too much weight as had by bivvy (came in handy though). I changed the set up after it went for the first time and tried to manage the pain.

It was a fun event and loved having a little insight into the ultra world

I was loving Further East but my knee went around midnight and i tried to swap the set up around so i could continue in anyway but now i can barely walk. I've scratched now and had a good sleep.

I'm gutted as I've got some decent fitness to compete and sitting around 6th was achievable (my aim was to move to 5th through the night), now i need to recover fast.

Josh had a mechanical at the start so lost a fair bit of time to Neil.

It's for the old door at work, the building is a converted train workshop

I do have a cleaning regime
which takes about 10 minutes. I like to keep my bikes in good condition, as mentally i feel it's 0.2% faster.

Thanks for noticing. I'm number 7 for Further East too

Set up for Further East, I've packed a fair bit of food so let's see how it goes. I've got a 55mile ride to the start after work so it'll give me time to see how it rides. It was good on the commute this morning.

How come no aerobars? Is it to do with the record

I was fooled, looking at it too late at night. Rookie mistake, never again

Bloody scammers, that would of been a wonderful bargain.

Enjoy

What are they like OTR? If i set them up as tubeless i'll probably keep them for my normal riding but if they're terrible slow then i'll run them tubed and swap to GP5000s once I've done the EAST

My tyre choice for Further East, not sure if big enough or grippy enough but oh well let's see how they do. I'm actually going to run them as tubeless (currently a tubeless virgin) so hopefully that should help with puntures. I was tempted to keep my 650bs but the tyres are GK slicks which aren't great when cornering, also they were way too close to the NDS chainstay so i couldn't get anything bigger or knobblier in there

Sounds good, I'll PM you

Kind of, I haven't made up my mind as it's not needed for another few months and have spent far too much £££ on tyres/chains/bivvy/sleeping bag/race fee this month.

I've got a cyrano r1 130mm -20 for the all season which I like a lot. How much for it?

Alright, i think my Vittoria corsa graphene 2.0 have gone after doing 4500km. Time to swap to a winter tyre, any recommendations? Go back to GP5000 or try Michelin Power All season?

Not yet, I've already checked eBay

policy but it making it difficult to actually

*terrible English by me but yes

It's 60 miles from my house so that'll work out nicely and the transponder needs to be collected the night before too

It's a good policy but it making it difficult to actually get there, 5am start so there's little options for me. Probably a train to Cambridge after work on Thursday and then a ride to the start and will sleep close or I can ride to my uncles who lives in Exning and then ride 20 miles there in the morning....

I'm in anyway, I'm just waiting on more information. I'm slightly worried I glazed over some details when signing up last night, oh well

EHIC?

@skinny @hippy what insurance do I need for those racers? Does the normal 3rd party cover this, I have Laka for my bike and the club membership for public liability.

Hello Hippy, how was your trip?

It's all sorted now, Isen were great and swapped my frame and completed the insurance quote which was paid out the same day so I'm currently riding a new Isen which is lovely with a replacement being made. It was a few days or worrying but that was mainly having the excitement of completing LEJOG wiped away by what seemed like a bad situation. (I was being dramatic)

Thank you, hopefully I can get a place but granted I can see it being a smash fest... It will add something for me to focus on over the next few weeks though. The 5am start in the middle of nowhere isn't that appealing though :)