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Just entered my first 200km calendar event since... oooh, October 2019? I did a lot of riding in 2020 including loads of DIYs, but then I had a baby, and moved to somewhere where there's fuck all events happening (the Isle of Wight) apart from a few across the water starting at Lymington. So that'll do nicely, the New Forest Excursion, on Saturday. It'll be the furthest I've ridden for over two and a half years.
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In 2019 I was in the bulge and took an inflatable mat and liner. Didn't use them once. Had three sleeps, think we had to wait a little bit for one of the beds. It was chaotic, but fine. Well, fine if you're expecting cold halls with hundreds of snoring blokes in them. Like someone else said the nights were very cold (like 0°c) so sleeping outside without proper gear wasn't an option, and it felt like almost every inch of space indoors at controls was taken with sleeping randonneurs so even if I'd wanted to use the gear I'd hauled across France it would have been hard to find a space. If I ever did it again I'd sleep during the day - I did that on the Monday afternoon last time and the control we picked was empty as we rode right through the first night and well into the day before stopping.
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Oh good lord if you'll post yes please @broken_777
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except it really, really does