RideLondon-Essex 2022 - My First Attempt | Closed Roads

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RideLondon is an annual festival of cycling held at the end of May on closed roads. It is a timed event you have to complete the 100 miles within 8 hours including stops; and watch out for the thousands of cyclists!
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The RideLondon-Essex 100 took place on Sunday 29th May 2022 starting from Victoria Embankment in Central London going into Essex via the historic Epping Forest and ending at Tower Bridge in Central London. There were more than 20,000 people who took part in the event, more details are available here www.ridelondon.co.uk/our-ride...
I only managed to get 5 hours sleep the night before, most of it broken, which wasn’t the best preparation.
This was a different challenge for me especially I was not allowed to use my favoured Aero Bars which is a comfortable position for me, thus I had to focus more on staying on the drops and keeping my elbows at 90 degrees when on the hoods to get aero and save energy, which I had to get my body used to.
Recorded with:
(i) GoPro HERO8: amzn.to/3RYDgyG
(ii) iPhone 12 Pro: amzn.to/3SM93n7
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Strava: / strava
Komoot: www.komoot.com/tour/787581717
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[@global_nomad.]

well done for getting through. and a decent time too. As i've noted before training is long term and the second half would have been easier if you hadn't pushed yourself the week before - doing it two weeks before would have helped more and then tapered. All good experience though, even the skill of riding amongst others, takes time to build these things up. Do you have another event coming up? PS I went around in 4:35 and this weekend have the chase the sun ride coast to coast.....

[@PunjabiCyclist]

Thank you for your advice most useful will try it out before my next event… nothing planned at the moment…
I would love to do a coast to coast at some point, all the best for your ride weekend!!

[@shahidrashid6463]

Proud of you Asif. I am aching just by watching :)

[@PunjabiCyclist]

Thank you bruv

[@londoncenturies]

Congratulations, great ride! And I think you're right about avoiding crashes etc on those massive mass-participation events.

[@PunjabiCyclist]

Thank you much appreciated.

[@b2theb]

Great video, any climbs to be aware of on this ride? I'm doing it this year.

[@PunjabiCyclist]

The route I did back in 2022 wasn't that hilly no particular climbs to worry about, the route is here www.komoot.com/tour/787581717 - I was more worried about the 20,000 or so cyclists buzzing around me!

[@atifraja9832]

Great achievement!

[@PunjabiCyclist]

Thank you

[@TheCityCyclists]

That intro was top tier 👌🏻

[@PunjabiCyclist]

Thanks man, I purchased it from RideLondon organisers so 100% credit to them.

[@PunjabiCyclist]

Do you have any suggestions on how I can improve my overall speed?

[@rascalvanruss]

I think all cyclists with electric bikes should be banned from the event!

[@PunjabiCyclist]

I didn't realise that e-bikes were allowed, now you mention it may look at the event rules again!!