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Storm Hannah leads to postponement of annual charity ride from Cardiff to TenbyCARTEN100 2016 (CC licensed by Chris Osborne via Flickr)

Storm Hannah leads to postponement of annual charity ride from Cardiff to Tenby

Organisers trying to reschedule
by Alex Bowden
Sat, Apr 27, 2019 16:32
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CARTEN100, a 106-mile charity bike ride from Cardiff to Tenby, has been postponed due to warnings of severe weather caused by Storm Hannah. The ride had been due to take place today. Organisers are currently trying to a suitable date to reschedule.

CARTEN100 has grown from just four riders taking part in 2004 to 2,500 cyclists last year. It is described as “a leisurely ride” where the philosophy is to get people back onto their bikes by preparing to cycle 100 miles.

The day itself sees money raised for charities and ends with a celebratory drink or two in Tenby.

“It is a challenge, never a race,” they say.

However, the BBC reports that with a forecast of heavy rain and wind gusts of up to 55mph (90km/h) organisers considered conditions unsafe.

Writing on the event website, founder rider Peter Palmer said: “For the first time in 15 years, it’s with a very heavy heart that I write this statement, but I regret to inform that we have taken the difficult decision to postpone the CARTEN100 ride this Saturday 29 April 2019.

“We have not come to this decision lightly, but we have been in discussion alongside our partners and riders whilst closely monitoring weather charts to see if the storm will alter its course. However, on the advice of the local councils, the police, and our medical team, we feel it is unsafe to have the ride go ahead as planned this Saturday.”

He continued: “Please keep a hold of your ride numbers as we are working with our partners to see if there is a suitable date to reschedule. We aim to communicate this information as soon as we can, but this will take time. We work across six local authorities and we’ve spent six months on this event. We will work as fast as we can to alter the set plans to allow you to ride in 2019.”

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Rich_cb | 5 years ago
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Saw loads of these jerseys out this morning.

Always a good event, hopefully they'll be able to reschedule.

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ktache | 5 years ago
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We have only been naming our storms for the past few years, the reasearch comes from the US, where ignoring storm warnings is a great deal more dangerous.  Strangely the US used to only name their pacific storms and only as women's names, but this changed in the late 70s.

I think my point was of taking women less seriously.

Equality benifits us all.

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bendertherobot | 5 years ago
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It's a few weeks earlier than usual. Normally it would be next week, which is a shame, as that looks ok. There's been a few tough years, one with a near constant massive headwind but not as unpredictable as yesterday or as gusty. It didn't die down at all either yesterday here, was going right up until tea time. It would have exhausted even the most seasoned rider. Right decision.

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ktache | 5 years ago
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I hope they can postpone this to a less stormy time.

It is a rather amusing sign of our patriarchal society that we view storms with female names as being less serious than those with male monikers.

Smash the patriarchy!

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Jetmans Dad replied to ktache | 5 years ago
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ktache wrote:

It is a rather amusing sign of our patriarchal society that we view storms with female names as being less serious than those with male monikers.

Do we? Can't say I have ever noticed that. 

Besides, I am not sure it is a particularly negative sign of the patriarchy that society views women instinctively as "less destructive" and/or "less like to wreck the place" than men. 

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