London-Edinburgh-London 2025

Location: Writtle University College, Lordship Rd, Writtle, Chelmsford CM1 3RR

By John Swindells | Comment
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I spent Saturday afternoon until Thursday morning helping out with the event. I was the main driver in a special forces team, which meant that we dropped into various controls that needed a bit of extra manpower or logistics support. Helping at Writtle went ok, as did Louth on Sunday and into Monday morning. By midday though, we were notified that the event was paused due to weather warnings in northern England (Storm Floris). There were hundreds of riders being held at Malton so we went there, working hard to keep the kitchen going. By the evening the event had been cancelled, so we stayed on at Malton to help with setting the riders off (southbound, for Hessle) the next day. We then moved down to Boston as that was expected to be swamped with riders as they continued to head south. That turned out to be the case, and we spent Tuesday evening through to Wednesday afternoon helping out there. We went back to Writtle on Thursday morning to drop off some kit and go our separate ways. All in all, quite an adventure, stressful at times, and glad to have helped out!

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by David Woodland on 22 September 2025
Thanks for helping out on LEL. It was still a laugh taking part in the event despite the cancellation of forward travel. We got to Richmond. I might follow the route up next year and stay in a couple of places en route! I thought the roads were quite quiet. I did it in 2019. Will I do it again? Possibly not. Some other challenges beckon.
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My name is John Swindells and I'm a keen recreational cyclist with a preference for long one-day rides. I've also previously dabbled in time trialling and cyclo-cross. See more of what I get up to on Strava!