Blimey Ed! Having ridden the event several times, including this year, the ride you did there was simply incredible. To finish 10th, despite riding around on your own for almost the whole day, starting from the second group, and with a broken spoke, is just phenomenal. I’m also sure that the riders in front of you weren’t vlogging either, so a top 3 finish should be well within your grasp at the very least. Glad you enjoyed the event itself, and it really is one of, if not the very best places in Europe to ride your bike. For anyone thinking of entering the event - just do it, and the one consolation for those of us who are much slower than you, is that the crowds are bigger and more enthusiastic as the day progresses, so the atmosphere is even better than you saw here. Surely you’ll be invited back next year, and get a well-earned slot on the front row 👍👍

@edlaverack

11 ай бұрын

Thank you :) :) :)

Jo Ed, you have to ride the Ötztaler. It's one step up to this one. 227k 5500m Awesome ride. Definitiv Top 3 if you started in the first group. #Edventure

Well done Ed, awesome ride 👏👏💪👍

That’s a great result. Well done.

Very well done👏👏👏

That was absolutely fantastic Ed very well done. Really enjoyed every second of the video.

Great result and video Ed! It was very satisfying to watch you overtake other riders uphill!

Awesome ride, awesome scenery. Great video.👍

Epic, well done

Great performance Ed and thanks for bringing us along.

Superb! Loved it 😊 Thanks Ed

Amazing ride!!!

An outstanding performance Ed! Inspirational stuff for sure.

Brilliant vid yet again, Ed. I’ve just mentally done that entire event with you! Well done! 😁

Incredible ride

Thanks Ed for this great video. You have all the talent to win this event one day also thats for sure but also like the fact its for everyone to experience these surroundings. Keep it up! Look for the Oetztaler also btw

Amazing résult 👏🏻

Another great Ed-Venture 👍

Well bloody brilliant Ed fantastic up the Welsh fantastic content as usual.

You got what your training deserved Ed massive well done 👍

What an event. Amazing. I have to do it once.

Awesome work Ed - i did it in 6:20 and mine was a packed field! Well done

I love the Dolomites. I am a ski guide there every winter and cover c1,800km each season. So I see the climbs and descents in a different way. So now I must take my bike! Grazie very much Ed. Fantastic to experience this with you.

What an amazing effort Ed considering where you started..it would be interesting to know how many people you passed!!..great video also 👍

Well done Ed ... the bout of illness earlier in the year seems like a millenia away ... cracking set of rides and performances. Please for you mate ...you also have a cracking team around ... didn't comment on the earlier video ...but when charlie was driving like crazy to get the food runs i think it was thre dragon ride.... happy daze ...those hill chlimbing champs are getting closer!

What a stunning performance Ed, it was amazing watching you taking over hundreds of cyclists. Next year you'll start from the first pan, you can reach the podium👍PS Great video too

It's a stunning route to do. I did it 4 years ago and have been longing ot go back ever since. What a great effort on getting 10th place.

Great video Ed, really enjoyed watching a talented rider with your fitness being able to ride those climbs and smashing it well done, brilliant channel keep this sort of content coming.

@edlaverack

11 ай бұрын

Thanks, will do! Another one coming up!

Brilliant effort, love your accent with the Italian names!!😂 Superb effort boyo 😂 We so want an entry for next year.

That was a great video, really enjoyed it. You captured the beauty of the place. Great ride as well. You are so damned strong!!

@edlaverack

11 ай бұрын

TY TY!

To start that far back and not being able to tag onto the top group you did an amazing ride!!!. Well done fantastic top ten finish!. Least you will be in the top group next year without a doubt!!!. Ed for the win lol!!.

Amazing

5,2 W/kg after 100km of mountain passes in the legs?? that's pro level climbing. Apart from this great display of fitness (and taking us on the ride through the scenery), I really liked that you didn't start to think negatively after you cracked a spoke! Many people would give up and be annoyed with everything! Champion

Brilliant video.

@edlaverack

11 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Finally got around to watching this in full. Superb performance, Ed.

@edlaverack

11 ай бұрын

Missed this comment! Thanks Niels, aside from the performance it was one of the best events I've ever done tbf

you make it look so easy ed. nice job!

@edlaverack

11 ай бұрын

It's chaos behind the camera lol

Excellent video, great content and fantastic to relive last Sunday’s amazing event. Incredible cycling Ed, particularly with that missing spoke and cycling on your own for the majority of the ride, chapeau 👏👏👏. By chance I was switching places with Arwel much of the second half of the ride👊, think he finished a few minutes ahead of me. Once again thanks, thoroughly enjoyed your coverage of the Maratona. All the best D

@edlaverack

11 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it. Ahhhh Arwel did say he was riding with someone later on, great that you could team up for some company!

Incredible ride Ed, congratulations mate.

@edlaverack

11 ай бұрын

Thanks a ton!

Brilliant video Ed and great ride. Only managed the Sellaronda this year but did it both ways. Will be back next year for the big one.

@edlaverack

11 ай бұрын

Have fun!

crazy performance

Great ride mate 👍 But also your just well prepared after the dragon to basically time trial this one

Ed, that was epic. I cant understand why more people are not following this channel... its honest, its real and its very inspiring

@edlaverack

11 ай бұрын

Nearly at 20,000 :)

Did the maratona a few years back and I would say it’s the best gran fondo I’ve done. The Dolomites are really beautiful and an amazing place to ride. Nice vid!

@edlaverack

11 ай бұрын

Totally agree!

Congratulations on your ride, enjoyed the video.

@edlaverack

11 ай бұрын

More to come!

@ianphillips765

11 ай бұрын

The mountains looked amazing and unreal thanks again.

Great video Ed and congratulations on the great result! That is mighty impressive! I was there and it was a shame I didn’t see you. I’m definitely going back next year. Just like you I am really stunned with the beauty of the Dolomites and hopefully will see you next year! 👊🏻👊🏻

@edlaverack

11 ай бұрын

Hope you had a great time Ritch! Sounds like it!

@ritchequindipan8388

11 ай бұрын

@@edlaverack I had an awesome time mate! The Dolomites is always special. I did the long route last year and completed it but not really had a chance to soak in the place with all the rush to make the time cuts. I did the medium route this year and was able to take time to admire the route and take some photos and videos along the way. Hope to see you there next year! 👊🏼👊🏼

top job - epic ride. just a shame the Welsh RR champs isn't this weekend - you'd murder it!!

Haha, had to stop working, because I wanted to watch this video. Really enjoyed the Vlog.

@edlaverack

5 күн бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Right up your Strasse this one mate, pity about the spoke it must have been quite unnerving to have a spokeless speed wobble on the descents that you could have potentially leaned more into and enjoyed the speed carried through. Buzzing for your result, deffo more in the mix for the next one and different vibe not having so many people to tight pass. Chapeau.

Great video. So different to a GCN video where they seem to take pride in the presenter being on their knees at the end.

Did the Nove Colli a few years back, the way the Gran Fondo are ridden over there is absolute nuts. Massive groups absolutely giving it, with ex pro and neo pro mixing it. Would love to have been good enough to be anywhere near the front

“Che gamba!” (What a leg). That’s what the guy shouted at you. Meaning you are very strong 💪. Well done Ed! Please go back and win this.

Smashed it

nice one!

Unfortunate with the spoke, still a good result though. I hope you've enjoyed riding in the Dolomites, looks awesome there!

The one thing I never said during this event was "we want Giau" lol

Well done, placing 10th in this event is awesome, who knows where you could have been without the spoke breaking and if you had been able to start with the front group, I was off in the back group and the road was totally blocked with riders not paying attention to anyone passing them, it took me 7hrs 2 mins to get round but I’m old and passed it now at 56, it’s the first time I e ridden an event and felt old! What an awesome event though and an incredible part of the world to visit, we stayed for a week after the event to ride the route again and actually be able to take in all the stunning scenery, where on the day I was swinging like a barn door in a gale and not taking anything in 🤪

@edlaverack

11 ай бұрын

Love your account of the event!! So glad you enjoyed!

You are right, it's probably one of the best road events in the world. The Dolomites are gorgeous, the altitude hurts.

Just stayed on top of the Pordoi for a week and did all the climbs. Absolutly stunning, cant recommend this enough to anyone. The area has different climbs with difficulty levels for everyone.

I do my GCSEs next year and finish early so I’m 100% looking out for an haute route/maratona type event that’ll take u18s. It looks awesome 👏

@edlaverack

11 ай бұрын

That's a great idea!

Was over for the race, my mate knows you or of you just found this by accident, going over next year if I dont get entry on my own get a holiday with a entry included well done took me nearly just iver 5 hours to do the Sellarondo on it's own Chapeau

@edlaverack

9 ай бұрын

5hrs for the Sella is still good going for the vast majority! Hope you get a good ride next year!

@Glenn1888

9 ай бұрын

Add in 59 and spinal/neurological problems (I cant even walk lol) @@edlaverack

Wow, what a ride mate - 10th at the Maratona is no small effort, while making videos too! 🚀

@edlaverack

11 ай бұрын

Thank you, certainly made for some multitasking!

@inScia

11 ай бұрын

@@edlaverack with a 10th you'll be automatically in next year and you should be in red grid - it'd be fun to see you starting from there, I can imagine the (Italian) folks in disbelief when you were passing by at that pace. I agree with the guy who shouted "Che gamba!" (great legs) - congrats! Bring over such great content, btw how could the battery of your action camera last so long? I could record half Maratona last time :)

Gosh it must be satisfying rocketing past people like that on the climbs though :) (says that 6'7" giant here!)

@edlaverack

11 ай бұрын

You'd be flying past me downhill though ;)

Man I did a couple training rides with Tommaso Elettrico (2nd place) back in December and got dropped HARD up a steep 20% climb. Competition is no joke at these fondos.

you should do the cape town cycle tour

You started back in the field, carried 2 camera's, did the filming for your ride, had a spoke blow out and so had a delay and then had to take it easy for a while... and you came 10th!!!! Well done Ed. That's seriously impressive! On a technical note. Your video & audio were fantastic. What camera's and audio were you using?

@edlaverack

11 ай бұрын

Thank you for picking up on this Stuart, it's a bit of a behind the scenes topic. I used 2 Gopros, 7 and 9 with one permanently attached to the bars and the other in my pocket.

What an amazing video! I'm new to cycling and have a question about eating on rides. You say you had "jellies" on the ride, what kind of jellies? I was wondering if "Swedish fish" are an ok candy to eat as fuel for rides? I'm finding fueling that hardest thing to learn as a new cyclist. Thank you!

@edlaverack

10 ай бұрын

The type of jelly I was eating is the type you dissolve in water to set and make in to set jelly. So technically it was raw when I was eating it. People swear by Haribo and alike too, you can experiment with lots of things like that.

mate you could have started at the front, held onto front group and maybe got a better time due to draftaruchi, but no .... guts, did it the harder way but certainly more rewarding experience and personal achievement, true grit Mr Ed, a masterclass.

@edlaverack

11 ай бұрын

Thank you! Welcome to the channel!

easy top 5 if you could draft... maybe even better... the organizers should give you free entry next year... you are doing their job with this video

@edlaverack

11 ай бұрын

Appreciate that encouragement :)

Well done 👏 will be very interesting next year when you start with the lead group! Few people will be worried about you, me thinks. Some of the “elite” riders being passed by you…….. while recording your ride 😂 get in mate!

@edlaverack

11 ай бұрын

I hope so too

Great ride. What’s the crack with eating jelly?

@edlaverack

11 ай бұрын

It has energy ;) Old school runners trick.

@kevinmoore8896

11 ай бұрын

@@edlaverack ok I’ll give it a go

It must feel good to ride in those landscapes at 5w/kg

@edlaverack

11 ай бұрын

Makes the climbs shorter of course, but not always a good thing haha!

What go pro are you using? And how long can it record on one battery?

@edlaverack

11 ай бұрын

Yes, GoPro Hero 7 on the bike and 9 in my pocket.

@SuperYobo

11 ай бұрын

@@edlaverack How long does it record on 1 Battery? 1080p-30fps?

Did I see Hartley's Jelly packets. Can you eat the cubes raw!?

@planetrock8733

Жыл бұрын

Im going to give them go at only 95p a packet, certainly cheaper than buying Clif Blocks.😋

How did you get so strong ed? Is it just down to time in the saddle or specific sessions? It would take me 3 times this to complete this ride 😢😢

@edlaverack

Ай бұрын

Sadly there is no secret here other than 15 years of cycling, very little injury or illness keeping me away from the bike, used to race professionally and know how to prepare and execute.

Gwych Ed. Da iawn ti.

Minute 18 People said “che gamba!”…..

Wow 💪 top 10 could of been top 3 if you hadn't blown a spoke 💪💪💪

@edlaverack

11 ай бұрын

Thank you! Welcome to the channel!

Medal looked a bit cack considering 😮

Why weren’t you put in the first group of starters?

@edlaverack

11 ай бұрын

I think it's just down to your entry. I entered with a tour operator, not sure if you can have the option of starting further up.

Maratona or Marmotte?

@edlaverack

8 ай бұрын

Maratona every time

Could you have won starting in the front group? You spend so much energy in riding the whole route alone. 😬

@edlaverack

11 ай бұрын

Can't say, Would have made for a good day though!

24:25 how could you be roglic?? you were on your bike and not on the ground.. come on..