Longest ride

[GavinDavies7]

I finished work early yesterday so I managed to get out before it was going dark thought I would go for a longer ride as most of my rides are done after work in the dark, suprised myself with distance I went 41.3 km. got to 27km then realised it was time to head home from 35-40k it was mainly up hill which was a killer and my legs felt like they belonged to someone else. So more practice at longer distance from now on or maybe a visit to Michele Farrari for some EPO

 

[si_c]

Nice work. The best rides are when you don't notice the distance.

 

[cubey]

Longer lighter days, equals longer length rides. You won't notice the distance with that warm spring sun on your back.

 

[Alan O]

Excellent work - it's surprising how quickly the distances build up little by little, especially in these increasingly longer days.

...my legs felt like they belonged to someone else...

Even better - let them suffer the pain!

 

[Vantage]

I used to commute from Bolton to Horwich 5-6 days a week when I worked. Boring busy bloody A roads filled with a$$hole drivers doing my head in even before I started work.
Sooooooo, on a Friday when I finished early, the bike and I would take a detour. Up through Rivington, up Winter Hill, and back downhill into Bolton again.
It was exhausting, but immensely good fun and set me up for the weekend carnage with my mountain biking buddies

 

[biggs682]

@GavinDavies7 well done

i have started to add a few more miles on my weekend am rides

 

[Racing roadkill]

I did a 240 odd Km ride the other week. That's the longest so far, this year, for me. I'd usually wait for the clocks to go forward before increasing the single ride distance, but I thought it'd be worth a giggle, mainly to hush up a particularly vocal person on a Strava thing I'm included in, because of a British Cycling leader commitment I have coming up.

 

[Saluki]

Nice ride, well done.
The EPO doesn't work with mere mortals anyway. Just ask Hubster, he's been on EPO for 4 years and still can't climb for toffee.

 

[cubey]

I did a 240 odd Km ride the other week.

Impressive stuff, I wouldn't be able to walk for a week if I did that.

 

[The_Weekend_Report_Guy]

I finished work early yesterday so I managed to get out before it was going dark thought I would go for a longer ride as most of my rides are done after work in the dark, suprised myself with distance I went 41.3 km. got to 27km then realised it was time to head home from 35-40k it was mainly up hill which was a killer and my legs felt like they belonged to someone else. So more practice at longer distance from now on or maybe a visit to Michele Farrari for some EPO

Good work..! Keep at it soon you will be riding metric centuries every weekend..!!! That is like 62 miles..

My longest ride? https://www.strava.com/activities/151182355 and it was a bumpy one..!

 

[cubey]

My longest ride this year. 71km

 

[KnackeredBike]

I just square my last ride distance each time. Cubed if I want to push things.

 

[RegG]

I've done my longest ride to date this morning - 41.3 miles (or 66.5 km for those insisting on using European measurements!!) with a total of 1,217 ft climbing (or 371 metres). Not fast at 3 hours 6 minutes but still averaged a steady 13.3 mph which is not bad (IMHO) for a 63 year old.

I'm pleased with myself anyway!!

 

[cubey]

I'm pleased with myself anyway!!

And so you should be, well done. My knees start to ache around the 3hr mark and I am only 56.

 

[gavroche]

I've done my longest ride to date this morning - 41.3 miles (or 66.5 km for those insisting on using European measurements!!)

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By the way, the metric system is not a European measurement but a Universal one, used throughout the world.