I reckon the results are listed by the routes that the riders entered not what they actually did – I know this for a fact on one of them.

Anyway I know I did the full tour and have the mental scars from Redcar to prove it….I’ve never been up there and when I got to the houses I thought I’d done. Then when I went round the bend and looked up to see a rider weaving from side to side across the road I nearly started crying.

Really well done to John, Andy and all the other organisers – I seriously tough day in the local hills that I thoroughly enjoyed.

Great rides by many people but especially well done Zip – you got some notable scalps! Glad also to have made Paul’s Top 5 WEDOAB – that really means we’re on the way to becoming a classic!

Thanks too to all from the club who helped out with the marking out – we didn’t lose anyone so that’s not bad for starters!

Feedback has been very encouraging and there are all sorts of plans for next year, but one thing won’t change much and that’s the topography!

Off to Malta – have a great summer everyone!

I’d just like to say how hard it was marking out Leg 6 on Saturday evening, although made slightly easier by being overseen by The Cononley Organiser, albeit from a safe distance.

Not sure about some of the ‘leg 6 finishers’ results though – there’s at least 4 of the participants who are listed as doing all 6 legs in amazing times -I think they’ll be keeping quiet about those last tough 23 miles!

Cheers John & everyone involved in organising this event

As I struggled up the cow and calf, what a sense of relief I felt that I had chosen route 5 and not 6….. A bit more training required for that me thinks.

At least Zip got the benefit of shelter from the ( very fast ) group with which he was riding ( and with which I don’t think any of the rest of us could have kept up anyway ). I rode the whole thing solo and, like David Millar in the TdF, now have a brand new entry into my Top 5 Worst Ever Days On A Bike. That’s worst as in miserable, not performance, as I couldn’t really have gone much quicker in those conditions and finally blew up on the last climb from Steeton. Don’t know how I managed to avoid stopping and walking.

By the way, Zip’s group apart, I’ld be surprised if many of those with the faster recorded times for route 6 actually did the full 88 miles. I think quite a few very sensibly bailed out at East Morton, and after having been passing people all the way round up to that point I only saw 1 more in the next 25 miles. And he did walk Redcar.