The Ride London website shows the following (unofficial) times for club members taking part into today's ride.

157.    Matt Raynor               4h 6m

854.    Rob Atreed                4h 24m

3401.  David Dyer                 4h 55m

3402.  Sarah Davies               4h 55m

3419.  Brett Ansley              4h 55m

5917.  John Bush                 5h 21m

6253.  Peter Cracknell          5h 24m

6468.  Rob Brockwell           5h 27m

10606. Jon Elliott                 6h 24m

11649. Owen McQuaide       6h 37m

12680. Taran Panesar          6h 49m

13324. David Booth             6h 56m

           Kevin Stanway         7h 4m (92 miles diverted)

15966. John Irwin                7h 26m

           Simon Greenland     8h 42m (92 miles diverted)

17238. Mark Rogers           9h 8m

A number of crashes led to a few hold-ups and diversions which have obviously affected some of the times above.  As this is not the first time that this has happended it seems that the organisers really need to look at lowering the numbers of riders or spreading the start times out more.

Congratulations to Matt Raynor whose time of 4h 6m makes him the new club record holder for this event beating Rob Attreed's 4h 9m from last year.  Sarah Davies lowers the ladies course record by 16 minutes from her time last year.  

Sarah and I were very fortunate that an early 6:32 start meant we had a relatively trouble-free ride and were thrilled to achieve our target of sub 5 hours.  (As my wife commented when I got back - I'm glad you took the Team Sky approach of staying near the front of the peloton to keep out of trrouble!).  What was everyone else's experience?