Suffolk Sunrise - the report

Not flat, but not what you would call hilly either, the Suffolk Sunrise offered a different century route to the Norwich 100, in unfamiliar territory.

"Sunrise" was a bit hopeful, I think we saw the sun, but not for long all day.
We started gently, as you do on such events, and then Simon got a puncture about 5 miles in, bit of a setback and took longer than planned to fix, but that did mean that from that point on we were overtaking all day, and almost didn't get overtaken ourselves!
The trio of Ivor, Simon and myself, worked really well together, taking turns to pull on the front, 3 stops in all - 2 for coffee and cake, and the middle one for lunch - a smorgasboard buffet of carbs. (Strangely we had to remove cycling shoes at 2 of the 3 eating establishments!).
The last couple of miles saw a late attempt to rain, but it held off, and although we got done by a young whippersnapper on a Trek to the end (the only overtake that stuck all day), there was enough in the tank to even go for a sprint finish at the end - hmmm wonder if anyone got that on film :-)

Finish time 5.40 and some seconds - happy with that! - and all for a great cause

Tour de Norfolk next...

Progress Report and achievements to date

Not entirely sure, but this may well be the first proper progress report for 2013...

4 months in with a target of 10,000 miles - I make that, I should have completed 3,333miles by end of April, so where was I... 3,662 - all good so far then?

Lots of challenges, for prizes and for fun around at the moment, aside from the MapMyTracks one that I won referred to in a previous post, there has also been the Velobici Spring Classics Challenge, in which I finished 31st out of 649 participants with a total of 2,613km covered - Prizes for this to be drawn on Saturday May 4th!

There was also the very similar but different Strava Classics Challenge, for which i covered 1,708km's and erned myself the badge opposite on my Strava Profile - kudos all the way!

May has now begun, and with only 11 days until the first sportive of the season - Suffolk Sunrise a 100 or so around Suffolk no less the other virtual challenges coming on stream are perfectly timed!

The Strava May Massive - ride as many km's as you can in May - does exactly what it says on the tin then!

And the People's Grand Tour Rosa (PGT Rosa) - designed to coincide with the Giro d'Italia - simply ride as many day as you can throughout the three week period May 4th - 26th - I only went and won the test event a few weeks ago! - Reputation to uphold me thinks?