longest ride

[deptfordmarmoset]

250 miles

a 400km audax last August.

Am doing another one in a couple of weeks time.

Chapeau! I did around 175 as a young lad when the Beatles were still playing and I thought I was pretty fit at the time but I couldn't walk properly for about 3 days afterwards. Longest I've done since being in my 50s is a couple of leisurely 50 milers - and then I couldn't walk for about a week afterwards. As soon as I get a little patch of work out of the way, I'm going to do London to Whitstable, which should be just over a metric century. I think I'll need to lie down for about 10 days afterwards...

 

[mercurykev]

Longest without sleeping was about 450km, a 400 audax with a ride to the start and from the end. Including a sleep would be 620km, a slightly over distance 600km audax. I think once you begin having sleeps you're in the realm of multi-day rides; although a chum did over 600km during a 24 hour time trial.

 

[davehann]

working my way up to the dragon ride (200k) 138miles

longest so far is 55 over mountains

but have a oovely 75 mile run planned over the bwlch next saturday ;-)

 

[totallyfixed]

With food and drink stops 306mls

 

[ColinJ]

My first longish one - Hebden Bridge to Manchester to do the Manchester to Blackpool event and then rode back to Hebden Bridge afterwards. 138 miles.

My longest 2 rides: Hebden Bridge to Coventry, and back again a week later. 141 miles and about 13,000 ft of climbing each way.

 

[Tasker]

120 miles - but when I was much younger. Now 42.5 miles last Sunday with one half hour stop but only carrying minimal luggage. Which concerns me as I am determined to do the coast to coast this June/July with a tent, sleeping and minimal cooking stuff and camping wild.

 

[Bodhbh]

Cheating going over the fens with a tailwind, but 135miles from Cambridge to the parents near Grimsby.

I have done a few hilly 100-120miles rides with camping gear tho (not cheating!).

I don't have a long cycling background and used to be 20 stone. Couple of years ago did a loop over the top of norfolk, 50miles, then a midday swim in the sea for 1/2 hour, a beer and a packup on the beach, back on the bike, knockouted 50miles to King Lynn. Thought this is what it means to be alive, to be fit, wtf have I been doing!

I really like the freedom to be able to knock out 100miles on the bike and explore or just get from A to B, but I couldn't cope with some of the silly distances above, takes soemthing else imo.

 

[tyred]

65 miles in an hilly area on an old Hi-Ten Peugeot. I have done it every Sunday for about the past 2 months now. Takes about 4 1/4 hrs but I don't aim for speed. I feel okay after it. Part of me wants to aim for the imperial century, part of me says what's the point.




Edit: If someone had told me a few years ago when I arrived back from a two mile on my MTB with legs like jelly and gasping and wheezing for breath that I would be able to cycle 65 miles, I would have laughed my head off. I suppose it must count as some sort of achievement and progress.

 

[dellzeqq]

in a day - 204 (Waddesdon to Lancaster+ return to house from railway station) in 1988 and 202 (LE to Bristol, first day of 5 day LEJoG) in 2005

 

[ACS]

200 km - Deeside Loop audax. Looking toward 300km this season. Like to mention I have been back on the bike for just over 2 years following a 15 year cycling sabbatical. Buildng up to an SR.

 

[dan_bo]

140 mile- manchester-blackpool- manchester via getting lost in preston twice.

 

[Timmo]

The longest I've managed so far is 14.5 miles might go for a 20 this weekend.