128km (due to a couple of wanders off the beaten track)
ascent: 2299m (!)
Time taken: approximately 10 hours
Sadly, not a good one for my friend Steve, who had to bale out due to illness at around the 40k mark. I wasn't out to break any records, but the time was slow even by my snail-like standards. Not long after Steve baled, I hit a pothole badly and got a "snakebite" puncture which was a bugger to fix and took me 40 minutes in the end. I also got lost a couple of times, never badly, but costly, time-wise. By the time I'd finished, of course, I didn't care, but the organiser came along in his car and kindly took my brevet card from me, which lifted my spirits somewhat.
I only got rained on very lightly, and only for about 10-20 minutes.
