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Re: Thanks
Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2016 2:26 pm
by Bard
Yeah, thanks to all involved, especially Stu & Dee for all their hard work, and all the friendly folk I met in the Star Inn & on the route.
Cracking weekend
Re: Thanks
Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2016 2:27 pm
by macinblack
Just adding my thanks to Dee and Stu.
I've only been doing any long distance cycling for the past 3 years and bikepacking for 1 year and the BB200 is (in hindsight) the most enjoyable way to see how I'm getting on.
I'd echo the sentiments of others that the last section this year is what makes the BB200 no ordinary beer.
Of course, after the challenge, those bacon cobs are the best tasting in the world, specially with a muesli chaser.
Re: Thanks
Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2016 8:44 pm
by whitestone
Unusually for me I've got my act together and written up my blog -
http://bobwightman.blogspot.co.uk/2016/ ... s-200.html
Re: Thanks
Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2016 10:09 pm
by dlovett
I'm glad I found them, in time, 1/4 of a second later and they would have been in lots of small pieces under my tyres!!
whitestone wrote:Since this seems to be the summary thread here's my post ride breakdown, I'll do a blog later.
Highs:
The moorland tracks between Knighton and Llanbister
Spotting several Red Kites, Buzzards and Barn Owls (not all at once)
Duncan for finding and returning my glasses (they are only a cheap pair from Asda but useful for things like this)
Belinda (and helpers) at the Bwlch y Sarnau community centre - absolute star.
Actually managing to see Stu, it's not a race, Cowperthwaite out on the course.
And of course Stu and Dee for pulling it all together.
Lows:
Surprisingly not the 15Km sting in the tail - I think I was in the "thousand yard stare/death march" zone by that point so beyond caring.
Being denied my full three hours sleep when back at BB HQ by a lovelorn girl - "John! wimper, sob. Johhhhhhn!! weep, burble. JOHN! sob, sob. JOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHNN!!!!!!!!!!!!! sniffle JOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!" There was at least half an hour of this - let's just say it didn't get more varied or edifying but it did get louder, Romeo and Juliet it wasn't.
The weird:
The slightly aggrieved woman at Skyborry Green - "You can't go up here, it's not a right of way, it's a bridleway. Bikes aren't allowed!"
My first BB200, it won't be my last but I'm already booked for something else next year so it will be 2018 for me.