Another year, another century

Gruppetto social (via Seymour, Grouse, and Cypress 🏔️)

Gruppetto: Iona and Richmond loop

BC Randonneurs 200 km brevet: "11th Hour" — epilogue

BC Randonneurs 200 km brevet: "11th Hour"

https://database.randonneurs.bc.ca/event/5553

This brevet got postponed by one week due to a wildfire near Lytton (https://wildfiresituation.nrs.gov.bc.ca/incidents?fireYear=2025&incidentNumber=K71095). Such is life these days, when running long routes in the summer.

Nigel Press seemed to be in a rush and not in a mood to chat much, so I let him go at the Burnaby Velodrome. Just before Stave Lake, Chris Cullum and Andrew Rapier caught up to me, so I tenaciously and shamelessly wheel-sucked them from there all the way to Hope, with not many pulls to offer since I was close to my limit. At Hope, I went to a different place for lunch, thus ending up riding solo from then on. That's just as well, since I would surely have overexerted myself if I had tried to keep up with them on the Highway 1 hills, and there's only so much a draft can do for you uphill. While taking a long afternoon break at Boston Bar, I saw P Vw roll past, so I must have been the last one to arrive in Lillooet the first night, around 10 pm.

Since I was riding solo, I was determined not to put any more effort or lose any more sleep than strictly necessary to finish under the 40h time limit with some safety buffer. I estimated that 5 am would be a good time to leave Lillooet: it would be cool and bright enough to see clearly on the Duffey climb, but warm by the time I had to do the descent. In actuality, I left at 5:20 am, and finished in 38h53m — cutting it a little close due to a strong headwind on the second day, a lot of soft-pedaling towards the end, and a last-minute decision to enjoy a dinner break. Perfect time management, I'd say!

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Another year, another century

Gruppetto social (via Seymour, Grouse, and Cypress 🏔️)

Gruppetto: Iona and Richmond loop

BC Randonneurs 200 km brevet: "11th Hour" — epilogue

BC Randonneurs 200 km brevet: "11th Hour"

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