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A very good day: four of our five riders set new PBs. David Veitch was fastest, going under the hour with 58:56. Alex Sweeting got 1:01:03, James Hodges 1:03:50, Jamie Fake (me) 1:04:12 - all of us taking substantial chunks off our previous records. Only Soren Hansen (a late replacement for a sickly Tim Holmes) was disappointed, coming home in 1:08:22, a time he will definitely beat next time.

Please see the attached start sheet for Saturday's race

Pretty self-explanatory - if you're looking for something or trying to sell something, why not post it here and see if anyone can help?

Hi Pete. That's a great idea and part of what the forum is intended for, but in reality a lot of people hardly ever look at the forum and just use the club's Facebook page instead, so there's a danger of any post about a ride being unseen until after that ride. Are you on Facebook at all?

Ride London 2015: part one and part two

Results of the 'two-up':
1 23.12 S Dennison-J Williams R-R 1st HPV
2 23.25 I Boardman-A Ioannides V-S 1st Male Pair
3 23.29 T Holmes-A Sweeting S-S
4 23.31 N Field-E.Crallan S-S
5 23.50 C Ross-D Ross S-S
6 24.17 I Costley-F Moore J-J 1st Junior Pair
7 24.28 O Ramsay-L.Dixon S_S
8 24.39 D Massie-M Smith S-S
9 24.41 A Mulroy-A Buurman V-V
10 24.51 A Elferink-N Kaye S-LS 1st Mixed Pair
11 25.06 J Delves-J Gibbons S-S
12 25.28 I Strawhorne-C Halladay-Garrett S-S
13 25.29 G Hutchison-B Duly V-S
14 25.40 R Warren-G Patmore S-S
15 25.42 P Cutter-R McCall S_S
16 26.41 E Hanroy-E Szigety J-J
17 26.44 M Noble-S Brookes S-N
18 26.48 M Rolfe-R Fawcett V-V
19 27.08 D Lecky-A Cutter LS-LS 1st Female Pair
20 27.12 S Bardill-C Pike-Mullins J-J
21 27.12 J Fletcher-J Williamson S-S
22 27.17 R Moseley-A Loughran S-S
23 27.40 H Moore-G Boyd V-V
24 27.57 E McNichol-P Maas S-S
25 28.04 K Bunyan-D McCarthy V-V
26 28.21 O Mavroudis-Chocholis S Taylor V-S
27 28.24 C Lutsch-P Singleton LS-S
28 29.03 N Ferguson-M Blake J-J
29 29.13 E Fudge-C Grath LS-LS
30 29.20 M Ben-Shaul-N Jarman L-L
31 29.51 A Bardill-T Bardill J-V
32 30.18 I Hall-V Carter V-LS
33 30.42 C Dash-E Malenfant LJ-J
34 30.51 J Dash-C Dash V-J
35 31.04 P Cockman-B Puech L-L
36 31.18 S Kerrigan-A Kerrigan V-J
37 31.39 I Haskins-S Reddy V-LS
38 34.40 H Gregory-S Boyd J-J
39 36.06 W Green-K Watts J-J

plus one solo rider:
24.06 J Webb

And for those who managed to complete at least six rides, those riders ranked by the average speed of their fastest six rides:
Posn Rider Cat Av mph
1 A.IOANNIDES S 26.01
2 J.WILLIAMS R 25.44
3 A.CARTER S 25.41
4 I.BOARDMAN V 25.32
5 M.FINK V 25.21
6 B.WHITEHEAD S 24.73
7 S.DENNISON R 24.73
8 A.TROTT V 24.59
9 E.CRALLAN S 24.46
10 O.RAMSAY S 24.42
11 M.ROLFE V 24.41
12 A.ELFERINK V 24.24
13 T.HOLMES S 24.21
14 N.MARRIN V 23.95
15 P.SKINNER V 23.90
16 L.DE IRONS SB 23.72
17 J.CRUST V 23.61
18 L.DIXON S 23.20
19 N.KAYE LS 23.18
20 J.FAKE V 23.18
21 B.GEOGEOHAN-HART SB 23.17
22 M.EVANS V 23.15
23 B.SMITH V 22.99
24 K.LALLY V 22.87
25 J.FLETCHER S 22.71
26 B.DULY S 22.58
27 N.TOMS LV 22.47
28 G.HUTCHISON V 22.47
29 I.DEUCHARS V 22.22
30 N.IRONS V 21.67
31 F.O'SHAUGHNESSY V 21.58
32 A.CUTTER LS 21.57
33 A.ARMSTRONG LV 21.33
34 G.BOYD V 21.25
35 D.STEELE V 21.25
36 R.FAWCETT V 20.95
37 I.HASKINS V 20.86
38 S.TAYLOR V 20.73
39 D.LECKY LS 20.70
40 C.PIKE-MULLINS SB 20.65
41 D.MCCARTHY V 20.15
42 E.MALENFANT SB 19.41
43 I.HALL V 19.37
44 V.CARTER LV 19.34
45 R.PIMLOTT V 19.16
46 R.D-MALCOLM LS 18.91
47 M.BEN SHAUL LV 18.74
48 A.KERRIGAN SB 18.18
49 A.HERSCH V 18.15
50 H.GREGORY SB 16.42

Results from the final week that counts for the overall competition:
1 T.MODELL SB 21.48
2 A.IOANNIDES S 22.37
3 J.WILLIAMS R 22.58
4 I.BOARDMAN V 23.15
5 J.SIMONS S 23.28
6 A.TROTT V 23.30
7 B.WHITEHEAD S 23.31
8 M.ROLFE V 23.35
9 E.CRALLAN S 23.55
10 A.ELFERINK V 24.09
11 B.GEOGEOHAN-HART SB 24.09
12 J.DELVES S 24.09
13 J.HODGES S 24.10
14 J.KENNELL-WEBB S 24.12
15 C.PARKER S 24.13
16 P.SKINNER V 24.15
17 T.HOLMES S 24.15
18 S.EVANS S 24.15
19 M.NOBLE S 24.21
20 O.RAMSAY S 24.30
21 C.CHEUNG S 24.38
22 G.ELYAHOU V 24.42
23 J.CRUST V 25.03
24 R.WARREN V 25.04
25 B.DULY S 25.06
26 N.WADDELL S 25.14
27 B.SMITH V 25.15
28 K.LALLY V 25.15
29 J.MACHIN S 25.17
30 R.MCCALL S 25.17
31 G.PATMORE S 25.23
32 N.YATES S 25.25
33 M.EVANS V 25.28
34 J.FLETCHER S 25.28
35 S.BROOKS N 25.31
36 P.CUTLER S 25.37
37 N.TOMS LV 25.44
38 F.PIKE-MULLINS J 25.46
39 I.DEUCHARS V 25.52
40 E.LEVEY V 25.56
41 R.COX V 26.02
42 A.CHAPMAN V 26.06
43 D.JENKINS S 26.09
44 S.LONGMAN S 26.31
45 M.NICHOLAS V 26.32
46 F.O'SHAUGHNESSY V 26.33
47 J.GIBBONS S 26.45
48 P.DELAMERE S 26.52
49 G.BOYD V 27.01
50 R.FAWCETT V 27.03
51 E.HUNTLEY SB 27.04
52 D.STEELE V 27.10
53 T.MILNES S 27.12
54 C.PIKE-MULLINS SB 27.17
55 A.ARMSTRONG LV 27.38
56 P.MAAS V 27.46
57 N.JARMAN LS 28.08
58 I.HASKINS V 28.19
59 E.SZIGETY J 28.25
60 J.WILLIAMSON S 28.30
61 R.HODGES S 28.37
62 M.BLAKE SB 28.41
63 C.CHYMERA LS 28.43
64 H.STACEY LS 28.52
65 E.MALENFANT SB 29.10
66 K.WATTS SB 29.19
67 I.HALL V 29.34
68 V.CARTER LV 29.41
69 R.D-MALCOLM LS 29.42
70 R.PIMLOTT V 30.06
71 C.DASH SB 30.06
72 M.BEN SHAUL LV 30.10
73 N.BIRCH LS 30.11
74 L.SAUL LS 30.40
75 I.HODGE V 30.46
76 H.WARNER V 31.38
77 B.JACKSON LV 31.50
78 C.DASH SG 31.55
79 A.HERSCH V 32.35
80 O.JAMES SB 32.53
81 S.BOYD SB 36.35

Not sure how easy it would be to bring bikes into a central London pub? I reckon I'd be up for meeting up with everyone in Green Park for a bit afterwards. Last year I was wet through and my phone was broken (by getting wet through) so I only managed to find Nestor and Dave McCarthy (having lost my team mates in the first five or six miles) and had no idea if people were in front of me or behind me or what. It would be good if we could all regroup afterwards. I suppose it depends on the weather, though (plus I've still got to ride about 12 miles home afterwards).

Our road race, Carsten's amazing run of results, and more: http://leavalleycc.tumblr.com/post/124018835283/july-2015-road-race-carstens-purple-patch

I think maybe not - I seem to recall that when I first connected it to the laptop it said there was an update available and asked me if I wanted it. I declined and it hasn't asked me again. Will have to investigate further.

Hmmmmm. After two hours of scanning the card, the software claims there are no files to recover. So my clip called VIRB0006 ends on a random section of riding on a country lane after just under 24 minutes. The next clip is called VIRB0007 and has no size at all. It's just a file name, but there's no actual file content. It was created at 14:13, immediately after the previous clip ends. But there's nothing there. The next clip, VIRB0008, is a photo accidentally taken in my hallway an hour and a half later when I was trying to work out how to replay footage. I don't understand. Software glitch? Human error? I don't want this to happen again, but don't know what actually went wrong.

The plot thickens...
I've now viewed all the clips. It seems that the Virb automatically creates a new clip at a point between 23 and 24 minutes of continuous recording. It did this at the top of Mott Street (about 24 mins after setting off from The Castle) and it did this on the country lane towards Tawney Common (about 24 mins after setting off from High Beach) and then there's nothing. So it can't be anything I did (on the bike ride itself) - either the device spontaneously decided to stop recording anything at that point (very unlikely) or I somehow managed to deleted a load of stuff when I got back and tried to play it back (also unlikely, but less unlikely). So how do I go about trying to retrieve deleted files from a Micro SD card? Is this even possible?

OK, here's my second video. Some issues with glare as you go in and out of the tree cover. Is there anything you can do about that (either at the recording or editing stage)?
https://youtu.be/ucc3BReLUb4

I don't think it would be a problem, but there's only way to find out (i.e. get one of the other Virb users to try it and see if their camera falls off and breaks)

I have four clips from yesterday. Last night, when I was trying to make a video using all four of them, the Virb Edit software just kept crashing over and over again. In the end I decided to just make a video using the first clip. I've just gone back into the software again now (to have a look at the other clips and see what's worth saving) and thought I would delete the first clip (seeing as I've already taken anything I want from it). It tells me that if I delete this clip it will 'affect' my video. How can this be? I've already made and saved the video and uploaded it to youtube. Does it just mean it will affect my ability to edit that video?

David - where do I get sugru from and how easy was it to make the shapes for the cradle and attach them to your helmet? Also, where do you get the velcro straps from?

Really annoyingly, I don't have any footage of the second half of the ride and I don't really know why. As I understand it, you don't actually need to turn the Virb on in order to start recording - you just slide the 'record' button forwards and it will turn the device on and start recording (the only advantage of having it on before you slide the button on is that the device starts recording slightly earlier). And I definitely slid the button forwards. I slid it back to temporarily stop recording at The Castle at Woodford when I met Alex, then again when we met his mate at the green hut at High Beach, then again when we got held up at the junction near the roundabout at the top of the forest and then again at Toot Hill when I stopped to wait for the other two. I have no footage after that, but I'm certain I put the button forwards - I even joked to Alex about how I'd probably get home and find I'd been pushing the button in the wrong direction the whole time and so I'd only have footage of the bits where we standing around. But I have clips of the whole ride up to Toot Hill and nothing afterwards. I wondered if I'd not pushed the button far enough forwards, but I've just tried it out and it's actually impossible to do this - the button automatically goes all the way forward and clicks. I've also tried to turn the device off once it's recording and this is equally impossible. So what on earth happened?

The other possibility is that I did record the second half of the ride, but then accidentally deleted it, but Alex says there is a three-step process to deleting clips so it's very unlikely I could have done this.

So, I've got my Garmin Virb and tried it out for the first time yesterday. I have a million questions and will try to work my way through them (and hopefully get some answers).

First up, here's the edited down video of the first little bit of the ride yesterday: https://youtu.be/VgUPuD1j8jo

I've managed to get the data on there that I want (more or less). Alex told me how to sync the picture with the data by linking a particular frame to an exact part of the route. I noticed that you have to keep doing this for different sections because every time the Garmin goes off (e.g. if you stop at a junction for a few seconds) and the camera is still running they get out of sync again. The data that's in this clip seems to match pretty much to what's happening (the 'bearing' gauge is useful for judging this). The things that don't seem to work so well are, I assume, because of the way the Garmin measures them, rather than a syncing problem. For example, if you look at the cadence just after the 1:00 point of the video, you can see it tumbling down from 90ish to zero over a few seconds - obviously in reality I didn't slow my cadence, I just started freewheeling, so the change should have been instantaneous. Also, jump to 2:23 and you can see me starting the steep climb out of the underpass. the 'grade' gauge reads zero for about two-thirds of the climb and then rises from 3% to 7% once I'm back on the flat - but this is what happens on the Garmin itself, there's always a lag between the actual gradient and the data on screen.

The wind was back this week:
1 M.FINK V 23.10
2 C.BERRILL S 23.11
3 A.CARTER S 23.40
4 I.BOARDMAN V 23.52
5 J.WILLIAMS R 24.11
6 B.WHITEHEAD S 24.12
7 N.MARRIN V 24.18
8 S.DENNISON R 24.25
9 J.SELLARS V 24.28
10 A.ELFERINK V 24.31
11 E.CRALLAN S 24.56
12 P.SKINNER V 24.56
13 J.HODGES S 24.57
14 R.WARREN V 25.00
15 B.GEOGEOHAN-HART SB 25.04
16 L.DE IRONS SB 25.05
17 M.NOBLE S 25.11
18 O.RAMSAY S 25.14
19 E.HOLS S 25.21
20 L.DIXON S 25.26
21 C.PARKER S 25.36
22 N.KAYE LS 25.42
23 G.ELYAHOU V 25.45
24 B.SMITH V 25.47
25 G.PATMORE N 25.50
26 J.FAKE V 25.51
27 M.EVANS V 25.54
28 T.BARNETT S 25.58
29 J.MACHIN S 26.23
30 B.HUGHES S 26.28
31 N.YATES S 26.31
32 A.CHAPMAN V 26.42
33 N.TOMS LV 26.44
34 C.ALABASTRO S 26.52
35 G.CLANCY S 26.52
36 S.BROOKS N 26.56
37 S.HAZEL V 27.01
38 P.CUTLER S 27.03
39 I.DEUCHARS V 27.04
40 K.LALLY V 27.11
41 N.IRONS V 27.13
42 S.SLOAN V 27.21
43 G.CUGI V 27.29
44 E.SZIGETY J 27.45
45 G.BOYD V 28.18
46 D.STEELE V 28.24
47 H.MOORE V 28.29
48 M.NICHOLAS V 28.30
49 A.ARMSTRONG LV 28.38
50 C.LUTSCH LS 29.14
51 E.MCNICOL SB 29.21
52 I.HASKINS V 29.31
53 S.TAYLOR V 29.37
54 R.FAWCETT V 29.40
55 J.DASH V 30.07
56 C.PIKE-MULLINS SB 30.12
57 K.WATTS SB 30.23
58 G.PHILLLIPS LS 30.23
59 M.BLAKE SB 30.24
60 E.MALENFANT SB 30.33
61 J.FEENEY DAVIS SG 30.50
62 I.HALL V 31.08
63 V.CARTER LV 31.09
64 M.BEN SHAUL LV 31.26
65 C.DASH SG 31.42
66 W.KRENZ R 31.55
67 R.PIMLOTT V 31.57
68 C.WONG LS 32.16
69 D.HUGHES V 32.21
70 A.KERRIGAN SB 32.43
71 L.SAUL LS 33.00
72 R.D-MALCOLM LS 33.17
73 A.HERSCH V 33.50
74 W.GREEN SB 35.19
75 C.DASH SB 36.06
76 M.BIMROSE N 36.45
77 H.GREGORY SB 36.58

A good night at the Velopark, but it was too hot for some of the riders and a bit more wind than last week. Would number 35 contact Joe (the organiser) as he can't read your name so you do not appear on the results sheet? Those with an "N" in the category box should also contact Joe. He will be sending out an overall results sheet up to week 8 in the next few days. Only 2 weeks of counting results to go (for the overall competition in which you need at least six rides).
The 11th (and final) week is for Two-Ups (riding as a pair sharing the workload) though solo rides will still be possible - preference for entries is given to two-up riders, so work out your pairings well in advance of the final evening. Afterwards there will be the prize presentation for the series and also medals for winners in the Two-Up, Male, Female, Mixed Pairs & Juniors.

This week's results:
1 A.IOANNIDES S 23.11
2 M.FINK V 23.27
3 J.WILLIAMS R 23.37
4 C.MEILANDT S 23.54
5 D.VEITCH S 23.56
6 I.BOARDMAN V 24.01
7 M.ROLFE V 24.08
8 S.DENNISON R 24.16
9 E.CRALLAN S 24.24
10 B.WHITEHEAD S 24.27
11 A.ELFERINK V 24.33
12 B.GEOGEOHAN-HART SB 24.38
13 N.MARRIN V 24.39
14 M.WATSON S 24.47
15 T.HOLMES S 24.49
16 L.LERNER S 25.01
17 M.NOBLE S 25.16
18 W.PHILIPS S 25.17
19 J.FAKE V 25.17
20 J.CRUST S 25.27
21 M.EVANS V 25.27
22 A.SACCROW N 25.33
23 L.DIXON S 25.43
24 P.SKINNER V 25.48
25 J.NICHOLLS S 25.50
26 C.H-GARRETT S 25.52
27 S.HAZEL N 25.59
28 B.SMITH V 26.04
29 C.WEST V 26.30
30 B.DULY S 26.37
31 G.PATMORE N 26.41
32 K.LALLY V 26.42
33 N.KAYE LS 26.44
34 J.FLETCHER S 26.49
35 S.BROOKS N 26.57
36 I.DEUCHARS V 27.09
37 A.CHAPMAN V 27.11
38 J.BRASSINGTON V 27.13
39 G.BOYD V 27.15
40 W.BRASSINGTON J 27.24
41 I.STRAWHORNE N 27.25
42 N.IRONS V 27.26
43 L.VAN KLEEFF S 27.31
44 J.KEENAN V 27.32
45 H.MOORE V 27.45
46 A.CUTTER LS 27.48
47 D.WOLMAN S 27.54
48 T.MILNES S 27.55
49 A.ARMSTRONG LV 27.57
50 S.SLOAN V 28.01
51 R.FAWCETT V 28.32
52 D.STEELE V 28.39
53 C.PIKE-MULLINS SB 29.02
54 C.LUTSCH N 29.22
55 P.MAAS V 29.28
56 I.HASKINS V 29.37
57 S.TAYLOR V 29.46
58 D.MCCARTHY V 29.48
59 A.BARDILL V 29.57
60 R.HUMPHRIES S 30.05
61 K.WATTS SB 30.26
62 I.HALL V 30.26
63 C.CHYNERA LS 30.34
64 E.MCNICOL SB 30.43
65 K.OPPONG N 30.45
66 J.DASH V 30.46
67 V.CARTER LV 30.46
68 E.MALENFANT SB 30.47
69 N.STANILAND LS 30.48
70 P.TAYLOR N 31.33
71 R.D-MALCOLM LS 31.51
72 D.HUGHES V 32.02
73 N.KEENAN LS 33.41
74 A.HERSCH V 34.03
75 A.KERRIGAN SB 34.45

Joe says "Another nice night for time trialling, very little wind. Three counting races left, remember you have to complete 6 rides over the series to qualify for awards. 11th week is prize presentations, two-ups and solo rides."
1 A.IOANNIDES S 22.35
2 J.WILLIAMS R 22.37
3 M.FINK V 22.42
4 M.HALLETT S 23.14
5 I.BOARDMAN V 23.23
6 P.STUART S 23.27
7 S.DENNISON R 23.41
8 M.ROLFE V 23.58
9 E.CRALLAN S 24.03
10 O.RAMSAY S 24.06
11 A.TROTT V 24.07
12 F.MOORE SB 24.25
13 J.DELVES S 24.34
14 W.PHILIPS S 24.36
15 P.SKINNER V 24.40
16 J.NICHOLLS S 24.43
17 M.NOBLE S 24.45
18 A.GALLOWAY S 24.47
19 L.DE IRONS SB 24.50
20 N.KAYE LS 24.57
21 J.KENNELL-WEBB S 24.57
22 J.FAKE V 25.07
23 L.DIXON S 25.07
24 J.CRUST S 25.09
25 C.H-GARRETT S 25.10
26 B.SMITH V 25.19
27 M.WATSON S 25.22
28 HE.TEZ S 25.22
29 N.YATES S 25.28
30 M.BAGWELL V 25.30
31 J.WATTHEY S 25.32
32 P.CUTLER S 25.34
33 A.ELFERINK V 25.38
34 C.WEST V 25.43
35 S.SLOAN V 25.44
36 S.BARDILL SB 25.48
37 A.LIGHTFOOT V 25.49
38 W.BRASSINGTON J 25.50
39 R.TEMPLER S 25.50
40 I.STRAWHORNE N 26.00
41 N.TOMS LV 26.00
42 M.EVANS V 26.05
43 B.GEOGEOHAN-HART SB 26.05
44 G.HUTCHISON V 26.10
45 N.DAVIES S 26.17
46 I.DEUCHARS V 26.20
47 B.DULY S 26.29
48 M.GILLETT S 26.35
49 D.JENKINS S 26.36
50 F.O'SHAUGHNESSY V 26.40
51 A.CHAPMAN V 26.40
52 N.IRONS V 26.50
53 A.HEWITT S 27.01
54 S.BURNS LS 27.10
55 M.NICHOLAS V 27.12
56 A.HALL N 27.12
57 J.KEENAN V 27.15
58 H.MOORE V 27.15
59 K.KIMBER LS 27.15
60 W.NORMAN S 27.32
61 G.BOYD V 27.36
62 D.WOLMAN S 27.36
63 I.HASKINS V 27.40
64 A.ARMSTRONG LV 27.42
65 R.FAWCETT V 27.58
66 S.TAYLOR V 27.58
67 D.STEELE V 28.00
68 J.GOULD S 28.05
69 C.PIKE-MULLINS SB 28.15
70 D.LECKY LS 28.15
71 K.OSBORNE S 28.21
72 D.MCCARTHY V 28.35
73 N.JARMAN LS 28.46
74 D.CHAMBERS S 29.11
75 A.BARDILL V 29.19
76 M.BEN SHAUL LV 29.31
77 K.WATTS SB 29.45
78 S.BALLANTINE R 29.54
79 R.PIMLOTT V 29.58
80 J.FEENEY DAVIS SG 29.59
81 I.HODGE V 30.07
82 F.HILL LS 30.21
83 J.DASH V 30.22
84 I.HALL V 30.27
85 V.CARTER LV 30.36
86 A.KERRIGAN SB 30.47
87 R.D-MALCOLM LS 31.03
88 H.WARNER V 31.33
89 T.BARDILL SB 31.34
90 W.GREEN SB 31.59
91 K.O-MORSHEAD LS 32.16
92 A.HERSCH V 32.42
93 C.DASH SG 33.37
94 S.KRAUSS V 35.06
95 H.GREGORY SB 37.35

http://ridewithgps.com/routes/2774630

The 'every hill' route, first tackled in the summer of 2013, with no less than 11 hill climb sprints. One for the masochistic. Only 45 miles and never straying too far from home, but by no means an easy ride.

If you fancy getting the train back from Cambridge, here's a route up passing to the east of Harlow and Bishop's Stortford (about 64 miles):
http://ridewithgps.com/routes/1388875

and here's another one passing to the west of them instead (about 60 miles):
http://ridewithgps.com/routes/1388839

To save a bit of time in the endless discussion / negotation of routes for club runs, I thought it might be useful if we saved routes here (along with a brief description) to help people choose from tried and trusted routes (if they want to). Feel free to add any. Unless stated otherwise, assume that they start and finish at the Town Hall on Forest Road, Walthamstow - even though most people won't actually return to the town hall if it's not on their way home - so distances are calculated on that basis.

Here are a few to start with (fast group rides, so no cafe stops built in):

http://ridewithgps.com/routes/4885814

The fast group did this a few times in the summer of June 2014 and again more recently (with a detour to Fyfield by accident). A nice ride east through Lambourne End, Navestock and Stondon Massey, north up through Norton Heath, round to Matching Green and then on the return leg a succession of sprints for the Moreton village sign, the Toot Hill village sign, the Theydon Bois village sign (just over the motorway bridge) and Coppice Row hill sprint to the two '40' signs on either side of the road. About 55 miles.

http://ridewithgps.com/routes/3397025

Did this in September 2013. Some climbing sprints in Epping Forest and through Abridge to kick off, then a more enjoyable flatter section out to Kelvedon Hatch, then back through Ongar for the sting in the tail: three more Epping Forest hill sprints. About 52 miles.

http://ridewithgps.com/routes/4897356

A route out and around Hanningfield Reservoir and back. Kind of did this the other week, but just retraced our steps for most of the way back after a lengthy delay for a broken wheel (!) About 64 miles.

http://ridewithgps.com/routes/5730985

Uses the Old Harlow – Matching Green – Hatfield Heath road racing circuit. Takes the quickest route up there (straight up through Epping to the M11 roundabout), then skirts around Harlow and goes round the circuit . It takes a more meandering route back with the good old Moreton, Toot Hill, Theydon Bois and Coppice Row sprints (described above) featuring. We did this in August 2014 to help Alex prepare for a race on this circuit. About 54 miles.

A perfect evening, a huge field, and a new record time:
1 T.GEOGHEGAN HART 20.43
2 T.MODELL SB 22.09
3 A.IOANNIDES S 22.44
4 J.WILLIAMS R 22.56
5 M.BLUE V 23.11
6 A.CARTER S 23.14
7 I.BOARDMAN V 23.17
8 M.FINK V 23.19
9 A.SWEETING S 23.24
10 T.SIMPSON N 23.29
11 S.DENNISON R 23.32
12 O.RAMSAY S 23.51
13 C.ROSS S 24.00
14 M.ROLFE V 24.03
15 A.TROTT V 24.13
16 E.CRALLAN S 24.17
17 C.KENNEDY-SCOTT V 24.19
18 J.SIMONS S 24.19
19 T.HOLMES S 24.22
20 P.BLACKWELL S 24.39
21 J.DELVES S 24.46
22 N.MARRIN V 24.49
23 J.FAKE V 24.58
24 K.LALLY V 24.59
25 C.H-GARRETT S 25.05
26 B.SMITH V 25.16
27 P.SKINNER V 25.25
28 M.EVANS V 25.26
29 S.BARDILL SB 25.26
30 I.COSTLEY SB 25.28
31 R.MCCALL S 25.38
32 J.HODGES S 25.41
33 A.GALLOWAY S 26.00
34 J.FLETCHER S 26.01
35 M.KIMBER S 26.03
36 M.BAGWELL V 26.10
37 P.CUTLER S 26.10
38 J.WATTHEY S 26.12
39 W.BRASSINGTON J 26.15
40 C.WEST V 26.16
41 G.HUTCHISON V 26.17
42 N.DAVIES S 26.19
43 J.BRASSINGTON V 26.20
44 I.DEUCHARS V 26.26
45 B.DULY S 26.33
46 I.STRAWHORNE N 26.38
47 A.CUTTER LS 26.43
48 B.GEOGEOHAN-HART SB 26.53
49 F.O'SHAUGHNESSY V 27.12
50 N.IRONS V 27.17
51 M.GILLETT S 27.18
52 F.REYNTJES S 27.27
53 A.CHAPMAN V 27.34
54 T.MILNES S 27.44
55 N.WILKINS S 27.44
56 C.PIKE-MULLINS SB 27.48
57 M.NICHOLAS V 27.51
58 J.GIBBONS S 27.53
59 W.NORMAN S 27.53
60 D.LECKY LS 27.54
61 R.FAWCETT V 28.05
62 S.TAYLOR V 28.11
63 J.KEENAN V 28.17
64 J.WILLIAMSON S 28.31
65 F.PIKE-MULLINS J 28.33
66 D.PALMER V 28.39
67 E.MALENFANT SB 28.53
68 E.MCNICOL SB 28.57
69 D.MCCARTHY V 29.04
70 J.FEENEY DAVIS SG 29.04
71 D.MORFORD V 29.07
72 H.STACEY LS 29.14
73 J.GOULD S 29.19
74 C.CHYNERA LS 29.30
75 A.BARDILL V 29.32
76 I.PATTERSON V 29.47
77 L.OSAGIE S 29.48
78 J.SCARLETT S 30.17
79 R.PIMLOTT V 30.24
80 R.D-MALCOLM LS 30.28
81 J.DASH V 30.35
82 Z.CAPSTICK LS 31.14
83 C.DASH SB 31.26
84 H.BRIGHTWELL LS 31.28
85 T.BARDILL SB 31.32
86 A.KERRIGAN SB 31.54
87 V.CARTER LV 31.55
88 A.HERSCH V 32.04
89 M.BEN SHAUL LV 32.32
90 N.KEENAN LS 33.01
91 C.COLLINS N 33.51
92 C.DASH SB 33.56
93 H.GREGORY SB 35.06
94 W.GREEN SB 35.33
95 S.BOYD SB 36.56