Last year the polo shirt for the carten said Probably the hardest ride in Wales – although most people thought it was it probably the easiest 100 miler in Wales.
This year new route & big wind against us the whole way. The goodies took 9.5 hours with about 8 hours riding! – which was longer than they took the tour of pembrokeshire & much longer than long course.
I think this was a hard sportive standard & last 40 miles very hard.
Do you agree?
In fact previously I haven’t thought the course was very good but thought it was excellent this year
Did anyone have any problems?
Why the different names
most rode cardiff to tenby
i rode cardiff to templeton – decided by the time I got to tavernspite done all the hard stuff & couldn’t be bothered to cycle to tenby just to turn around & cycle to templeton
someone rode cardiff to carmarthen
Bizarre thing that the day before when 18 rode narcar with wind behind us mainly rode slower than into wind on carten.
After stopping for lunch in Neath I decided to pick up the pace & sped off through traffic only to turn around & find no one there – I had gone the wrong way luckily people wearing yellow rain jackets helped me spot them!
I know it bucks recent tradition of bloging about the cycling – but to quote mrs doyle “go on go on go on”
Feel free to put it into song fog on bwllch is all mine all mine
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