Oh I did, thanks! Until I crashed at ~26mph near the end.
https://www.strava.com/activities/745299780
Utterly stormed the route with my 2 riding buddies who I'd scouted/ridden the route with a couple of weeks ago. Around 200 riders were out so it was a fairly staggered start, we were in the first 1/3 of riders to leave and spent most of it continually overtaking people (as we stopped to regroup a couple of times). Weather was good, if a little cool. I found I'd dressed pretty much perfect for it - summer jersey, winter shorts, arm & knee warmers with thick socks and overshoes. Only part of me close to overheating were my feet on some of the climbs. Beasted the climbs and PR'd most of them which I'm pleased with! Although I'd previously only ridden them on our scouting ride, we didn't exactly hold back then, just knew what to expect this time!
On the fairly fast and local roads back towards town there's a short downhill followed by a long flat straight along a perfect road surface.
I dug deep sprinting to try and hit over 40mph. Didn't quite, but after that my legs were feeling good so I smashed the couple of lanes back towards 'home' (used to live that side of town so knew them well). While overtaking a couple of people a guy on the inside drifted over towards the middle of the road and I had to go quite wide to get around him, I probably shouldn't have been overtaking there but he was the last in a line of 4 riding together and the girl at the back was slow... Sure enough a right corner is approaching and I didn't scrub enough speed, road surface was dry and clear so thought I'd be ok...
https://www.strava.com/activities/745299780/analysis/3403/3483 - I wasn't.
Back wheel came around and I hit the deck, taking most of the impact on my right thigh, hip and forearm. My face/head getting pushed into the floor by the momentum. I somehow also got my left elbow down as well?! I took stock on the floor (you know how that feeling is!) and concluded I was mostly ok, lots of things hurting but nothing numb. Around 6-8 people had stopped at that point. Peeling myself off the floor I removed my helmet and my vision out of my right eye was suddenly blocked, one of the guys said I had quite a big cut above my eye and it was bleeding down into my eye. I wrapped up my buff placing it over and held it down with my cap before putting my helmet back on to hold it in place before riding back. My right shifter and bars had taken the brunt of the fall with some heavy scuffing, with my RD cable being snapped somewhere I was unable to shift. My frame looked ok and only minor scuffing on the outside of the RD, so think it was me and my bars/shifter which took the impact with the scuffing coming from the slide on the floor.
Riding back (~4 miles) was interesting with only 34/50*11 gears, especially as town was buy with lots of stationary and start/stop traffic.
I'm mostly ok - road rash/scuffs on both my elbows and right forearm. Skinned 3 knuckles on my left hand. Section of rash at the top of my right thigh around a 4" circle and the deep cut above my right eye. There was no gravel/dirt in the cut so I think it's from where my glasses and helmet were pushed together by the grind along the floor, trapping above my eyebrow between them. I went to the local walk in and got glued up along with 'septi-strips' to hold it together as was meant to be going snowboarding today (and didn't want it opening - thankfully have been able to change our booking to another weekend).
My kit is a different matter - rips in my arm warmers, torn overshoe (with only some scuffing to my shoe buckle underneath), torn peak of my cap, both gloves ripped in multiple places, some heavy scuffing on my shorts and gilet with a hole in my jersey shoulder. Scratches on the lenses of my Foakleys. My helmet didn't take an impact but there is some heavy scuffing over the right eye. Typical! I've only worn it twice and it cost me £160 (hard to find Black/Red Large Kask Infinity).
Crashing is bad guys. Glad I bounce well as
according to Strava I was doing over 20mph when I hit the floor... Still pushed on and got the route complete in under 3 hours! Target I'd kinda set myself!
), Rotor 3D cranks, Praxis Works cogs, P2M.
