The Imperial Century A Month Challenge Chatzone

[Norry1]

Ride London for me too.

How was it for you?

 

[Supersuperleeds]

I think the distance from any GPS allways reads very slightly less than real distance.I bet if you plotted the route on map my ride or similar it would be over a 100 miles.

I don't know why that is but wonder if the gps connects all the dots with straight lines where as the actual roads are continuous curves .It is completely unimportant but something that I have pondered about before.

4.47 is an impressive time .

@Banjo
GPS calculates the distance travelled based on the longitude and latitude recorded by the device, due to this the distance is "flat", if you do an undulating route you will travel further than the gps states, obviously the longer the route the bigger the difference. If you have a wheel sensor then subject to you getting the settings right, then your distance travelled will be more accurate.

@Norry1 - very very impressive, remind me never to come out for a ride with you, you would spend longer waiting for me than riding.

 

[Norry1]

It is a bit

@Banjo
GPS calculates the distance travelled based on the longitude and latitude recorded by the device, due to this the distance is "flat", if you do an undulating route you will travel further than the gps states, obviously the longer the route the bigger the difference. If you have a wheel sensor then subject to you getting the settings right, then your distance travelled will be more accurate.

@Norry1 - very very impressive, remind me never to come out for a ride with you, you would spend longer waiting for me than riding.

It is a bit misleading. The fast times are largely due to riding in chaingangs and no stopping cos of closed roads.

 

[Norry1]

It is a bit

@Banjo
GPS calculates the distance travelled based on the longitude and latitude recorded by the device, due to this the distance is "flat", if you do an undulating route you will travel further than the gps states, obviously the longer the route the bigger the difference. If you have a wheel sensor then subject to you getting the settings right, then your distance travelled will be more accurate.

@Norry1 - very very impressive, remind me never to come out for a ride with you, you would spend longer waiting for me than riding.

It is a bit misleading. The fast times are largely due to riding in chaingangs and no stopping cos of closed roads.

 

[sittingbull]

........ The fast times are largely due to riding in chaingangs........

70 miles into my last ton I had to work hard to catch a group in front of me, once I'd caught them I was practically freewheeling. i did consider going around the outside and passing them but thought this might not be wise

I've been told the "pull" is worth 2-3 mph, still a very impressive time all the same

 

[HLaB]

How was it for you?

Great, thanks, the weather helped too :-)
There was three of us and we took it fairly easy for the first 80miles during which somebody decided to jump into our group, he'd be on the wheel of whoever was in front. Lol, I'd be sitting behind my two mates and he was too but if we came to a bend he'd move to the wheel I was following, I quickly learnt to give him a wide berth but he was determined. Then he decided on straights if the wheel he was following dropped 2feet behind the wheel to their left/right, he'd jump onto the faster wheel. Saw him again about 25miles out (he must have passed at the Newland's Corner feed stop, it was a bit chaotic, you did right not stopping), he wasn't jumping on the wheel this time, I tt'd the next 10miles or so, sat up for a bit and tt'd the the 10 or so to the finish Its quite a fast course. The under measurement was probably the tunnels if you didn't have a speed sensor, I don't. My ride. Another site just drawing straight lines gave me over a mile more from the gps track.

 

[Edwardoka]

Bad GPS data is a pain, particularly where elevation correction is involved. My Garmin registered not much more than 11,000 feet on the biggest climbing day in France, when I let Strava correct the elevation it jumped to 18,000 feet. Most route guides suggest the actual number was ~14,500.
Obviously I left it at 18,000

 

[Supersuperleeds]

August done , 105 miles in total. The blue man's post about his 20th century ride of the year got me to check what I had done this year. This was my 14th 100 in a single ride this year, and I've done 18 other 100 mile days on top of those. Still a long way to get to @ianrauk standard

https://www.strava.com/activities/364047615

 

[Soltydog]

Mine's pencilled in for a week on Monday, weather permitting, nice 100+ loop with a couple of testing climbs thrown in

 

[StuAff]

Did mine. IOW night recce done at the second attempt, that took me to 67 and a bit miles before breakfast. 1500 calories later, set off to do 32 and a bit miles..get to the turn-off for the ferry terminal with a few miles still to do. Bother! Got there in the end. Quite lumpy, unsurprisingly!

 

[rb58]

My August century was Ride London, plus the ride there and back. I'm off the bike for a couple of weeks due to other commitments, but already thinking about September's effort, which may well turn out to be one of the days of the mini tour riding from Geneva to Kent with @Trickedem and @ianrauk of this parish.

 

[Edwardoka]

Off on the CC Ecosse Lochs and Glens Tour this week. Not many big mile days but sorely tempted to try riding back from Inverness rather than getting the train.

 

[ianrauk]

Off on the CC Ecosse Lochs and Glens Tour this week. Not many big mile days but sorely tempted to try riding back from Inverness rather than getting the train.

DO IT

 

[Edwardoka]

DO IT

67 miles today. I feel sufficiently gubbed to say "sod that"

 

[Soltydog]

Got mine done today, 103 miles bit of a nastier wind than expected, but a very pleasant ride, although my under carriage is suffering