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Old: Markfield Park

Rode the inaugural London Orbital 300 yesterday and it didn't disappoint. Lovely leafy lanes once past Slough pretty much all the way to Gravesend. Waiting for the ferry and drinking beer was no problem. 30km or so north of Tilbury was not the best, but the control at Leaden Roding more than made up for it. They really made an effort.
I was very pleased with my hour long tactical stop over at a pub near Roydon to let the rain pass. Glimpses of London way in the distance to the left and you knew it was the home straight. More deserted lanes before the final (punishing!) hills back into the Chilterns. Thought the ride was fixed friendly up to that point.
Excellent route and organisation. Hope it happens again.

Wouldn't exactly agree with Ben's "Hard day in August", but definitely some tricky conditions with the saturated roads and mistyness. Its like it made my light less bright. So glad no one got any punctures, or struck by lightning.

Victoria for me too

Before and after

I'm worried about my bike getting mucky, so might bring my gearerd bike

rain out:

1) middleofnowhere
2) Scrabble
3) ruserius
4)

Ride out:

1) Rod_Munch
2) cagimaha
3) LobsterShorts (subject to niceness of route out)
4)

Let's go!

I'm doing the bare minimum and only going to prequalify with a 200 (LOL), as I'm not doing a whole lot of audaxing this year. Never heard of this ever being a problem.

You have 5 years to get things aligned!
@Thrasher asked about comparisons between LEL and PBP. A pretty thorough breakdown:
https://cycling-intelligence.com/2017/08/27/lel-and-pbp-how-does-it-compare/

Rather than clog up the audax thread, for all things PBP 2019.

"Between 18th and 22nd August 2019. This 1200km randoneé can trace its roots back to 1891, almost as old as the bicycle itself. It takes place every four years and has the largest number of riders of any audax event."

http://www.aukweb.net/events/pbp/

Gonna try, first time.

New: There's a map!

Old: Minories Car Park, by the cycle super highway on the corner of Mansell St and Shorter St

DD is such a wonderful cycling experience imo.
After a rest, breakfast, chat and few minutes of shuteye, felt really good so stuck with the original plan of riding back. Greeting everyone still on their way there was just amazing. Realise there are heroic efforts scattered throughout the entire field of riders! The mutually imparted good vibes set us up very well for the rest of the return ride, which ended up being by the far the furthest I've ever ridden into a hard headwind. Rained most of the day too, but was actually quite nice as wasn't cold at all.

You mean southerly? ie headwind. Every time I look the temp is one degree less.
Hope to see you tomorrow! I'm going to try ride and see how it goes.

Last month's warm sunshine was wonderful. Potential thunderstorm tomorrow would be good too!

Thanks, that's good advice actually.
At this rate I'm probably going to give Thursday a miss tho :(

Hopefully in. Am having some unpleasant, painful, embarrassing-bodies issues atm, limiting my ability to sit.

When I rode to an outdoor party near winchester before the days of google maps or common sense not realising how far it was and ended up riding in the moonless dark down tree covered roads. Was so dark I could only tell i was moving by the air passing by. Intense focus, like from a kind of sensory deprivation. Incredible experience, but I take lights now.

Not really. I got to the bottom of that looooooong hill, then looked back, saw no one, so went back up aaaaaaall the way up to that intersection where you said right at the roundabout, but it wasn't a roundabout. At first I thought it was Jim getting me back for last week, but then realised I must have missed you guys so just carried on. Was no probs, and was good to go with you guys for the part we did.
Rest of the ride before was very nice too! I've just ordered a bunch of stuff, which includes new tyres.
Also, piles, anyone ridden with them? :/

Train out:
1) cgg
2) LobsterShorts
3)

Ride out:
1) @Rod_Munch
2) ruserius
3)

+1 for Amersham. Looks like there is a pub with a bit of garden too, albeit a bit posher than necessary - Boot and slipper.

What is the Amersham route?

In, but only if the weather is nice