The 2016 Half Century (50 KM or 50 Mile) A Month Challenge - Chatzone

[SpokeyDokey]

As the self appointed unofficial adjudicator of this thread . I have counted 31 people still in , We may have lost one of the magnificent seven(last year finishers) @themosquitoking has not post a Feb ride . Still a day to go everyone to get rides in and posted .
Just gone back though the thread and found another so 32 .just a reminder please post a new post for each ride and don't just edit original post it makes it easier to find and saves trawling 11 pages so far

@13 rider

You are doing a great job - thanks. Saves us all a load of work.

 

[steveindenmark]

I have a question. To which I probably know the answer.

Does the 50 km ride need to be continuous. Or does taking an hour or two in the middle for lunch make it 2 rides?

 

[Katherine]

I have a question. To which I probably know the answer.

Does the 50 km ride need to be continuous. Or does taking an hour or two in the middle for lunch make it 2 rides?

Breaks are good. Ride has to be taken within the same 24 hours. All my Chorlton Wanderers rides involve a pub stop!

 

[SpokeyDokey]

I have a question. To which I probably know the answer.

Does the 50 km ride need to be continuous. Or does taking an hour or two in the middle for lunch make it 2 rides?

Rules aside - I prefer to do mine in one hit. It's tricky to know what's right. A 5/10/15 minute break on a ride that takes 2-3 hours seems ok to me. But two rides of just over an hour with eg 8 hours apart would be two rides in my book.

Not my rules though and I guess everyone does it their own way - main thing is just to get out there and keep at it.

 

[13 rider]

I have a question. To which I probably know the answer.

Does the 50 km ride need to be continuous. Or does taking an hour or two in the middle for lunch make it 2 rides?

At the end of the day the challenge is about challenge yourself to ride some miles and you are only competing against yourself . I work on the policy if YOU think the ride should count it counts so breaks are fine

 

[tallliman]

I'd agree with the above. I don't count my 20miles commutes as 1 40 mile ride as there's too big a gap between them. However, all of my 70+ mile rides have a nice lunch break in.

 

[13 rider]

Have failed at first hurdle - due to a painful back injury I have now missed February's opportunity to get one of these in

Sorry to hear that . Hope your back heals soon . nothing funny about a bad back .

 

[lpretro1]

Sorry to hear that . Hope your back heals soon . nothing funny about a bad back .

Cheers. I'm back on the bike now but just being a bit careful until I know it's ok - don't want to set it back as Doc said it could take 6-8 weeks to settle down. Just ran out of time for February it being a shorter month. I'll still try to do the challenge for the other months as it gives me something to aim at

 

[13 rider]

Cheers. I'm back on the bike now but just being a bit careful until I know it's ok - don't want to set it back as Doc said it could take 6-8 weeks to settle down. Just ran out of time for February it being a shorter month. I'll still try to do the challenge for the other months as it gives me something to aim at

Good to hear your mending . Don't rush the recovery . Nothing to stop you posting other months like you say just that bit of extra motivation

 

[kapelmuur]

I'm a newbie and have just discovered this thread but Colin has kindly said that I can join in retrospectively, so here are my qualifying rides to date.

January
https://www.strava.com/activities/463557620 58.7 km Altrincham - Appleton Thorn & return.
https://www.strava.com/activities/473731232 50.8 km Altrincham -Radbrook Hall (Knutsford) & return
https://www.strava.com/activities/478236568 53.6 km Altrincham - Alderley Edge & return
https://www.strava.com/activities/480478599 54.7 km Altrincham - Alderley Edge & return (inc. Woodbrook Road cobbled climb!)

February
https://www.strava.com/activities/486408421 58.3 km Altrincham - Great Budworth & return
https://www.strava.com/activities/489487342 54.4 km Altrincham - Pickmere & return
https://www.strava.com/activities/492628770 54.7 km Woodbrook Road cobbles again
https://www.strava.com/activities/494143061 65.7 km Altrincham - Little leigh & return
https://www.strava.com/activities/494143061 50.4 km Altrincham - Sworton Heath & return
https://www.strava.com/activities/503843993 61.7 km Altrincham - Mottram St Andrew & return
https://www.strava.com/activities/505362685 52.3 km Altrincham - Feldy & return

So that's 11 rides for 11 points.

 

[ColinJ]

Oh dear, I knew that I was struggling to get going this year but I have just realised that I have accidentally dropped out of my own challenge!

I had it in my mind that I had already done a 50 km ride in February but I forgot that I had cut it short by 7 km. And for that reason ... I am out!

I have now dropped out of the metric a month, the half metric a month, and am nearly 840 miles down on my target mileage for the year to date. I had better pull my finger out soon or this cycling year will turn out to be a bit of a dud.

 

[13 rider]

I'm a newbie and have just discovered this thread but Colin has kindly said that I can join in retrospectively, so here are my qualifying rides to date.

January
https://www.strava.com/activities/463557620 58.7 km Altrincham - Appleton Thorn & return.
https://www.strava.com/activities/473731232 50.8 km Altrincham -Radbrook Hall (Knutsford) & return
https://www.strava.com/activities/478236568 53.6 km Altrincham - Alderley Edge & return
https://www.strava.com/activities/480478599 54.7 km Altrincham - Alderley Edge & return (inc. Woodbrook Road cobbled climb!)

February
https://www.strava.com/activities/486408421 58.3 km Altrincham - Great Budworth & return
https://www.strava.com/activities/489487342 54.4 km Altrincham - Pickmere & return
https://www.strava.com/activities/492628770 54.7 km Woodbrook Road cobbles again
https://www.strava.com/activities/494143061 65.7 km Altrincham - Little leigh & return
https://www.strava.com/activities/494143061 50.4 km Altrincham - Sworton Heath & return
https://www.strava.com/activities/503843993 61.7 km Altrincham - Mottram St Andrew & return
https://www.strava.com/activities/505362685 52.3 km Altrincham - Feldy & return

So that's 11 rides for 11 points.

Welcome aboard . Just one thing you've posted your rides in the chatzone thread.should be posted in the challenge thread .. Good luck for the rest of the year

 

[13 rider]

January 22nd: 51 km (32 miles). Todmorden, Littleborough, A58 (Blackstone Edge), Blue Ball Road, Hubberton Green, High Stones Road, Blackstone Edge, A58, Littleborough, Todmorden. 1 point.

February 3rd: 51 km (32 miles). Todmorden, Hebden Bridge, Mytholmroyd, Cragg Vale, Blackstone Edge, Blue Ball Road, Hubberton Green, High Stones Road, Cragg Vale, Mytholmroyd, Hebden Bridge, Todmorden. 1 point.

Total points so far in 2016: 2.

Fogotton that one @ColinJ
I think your still in

 

[ColinJ]

Fogotton that one @ColinJ
I think your still in

D'oh! I searched this Chatzone thread for my posts rather than the actual rides thread. I thought I had done a 50km ride but found mention of the aborted one in this thread and thought that was it. The cock up was actually convincing myself that I had cocked up!

(I think I need to get a good night's sleep tonight having only had about 4 hours a night the past few nights.)

 

[tallliman]

Welcome back @ColinJ!!