Nelson’s as it is known, one eye, one arm, one erm missing.
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Nelson’s as it is known, one eye, one arm, one erm missing.
teeonethousand
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1 more. 101 has so much more going for it:
100 is just the top...you will have gone over the top.
101 is known for understanding the basics
101 has symmetry
Etc 😂😂
Very true, and 121 sounds very personal.
Spartak
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December ... ✅
2025 ... ✅
Sunny day here in Bristol [ for a change ].
Did a few local loops using the cycle paths & Bristol - Bath track. Nice to ride in the sun, still in 3/4 bib tights !
Nice pint of Salcombe 's Belgica to finish the ride ... 👍
2025 ... ✅
Sunny day here in Bristol [ for a change ].
Did a few local loops using the cycle paths & Bristol - Bath track. Nice to ride in the sun, still in 3/4 bib tights !
Nice pint of Salcombe 's Belgica to finish the ride ... 👍
FrothNinja
Guru
I am going to keep you (and me!) waiting a bit longer...
I have been off my bike for over 2 weeks, the longest break for years. Friday is currently looking ok, health and weather wise, so that might be my opportunity to get the December 50 done.
Hope you managed it today
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Er.... nope!
My current slump shows why the 3-rides-a-week challenge is so good. For several years it motivated me to get out when I didn't really feel like it. The hidden problem with it though is that the psychological incentive is gone for the whole year once even a single ride is missed. I made a stupid mistake one week by forgetting to do the third ride and from then on my heart wasn't really in it!
I still intend to do the last ride for this year's '50' challenge though. I have arranged to ride over to Hebden Bridge tomorrow to meet a pal for lunch. The weather forecast has improved so I am hoping that after lunch I will feel like continuing round the rest of my 33 km Cragg Vale loop. If so I will then be tempted to ride 8.5 km up the Burnley Road from Todmorden, u-turn, and ride home to complete the 50.
I tend to suffer from the winter blues (a.k.a. Seasonal Affective Disorder) so this was typical for decades of my life. I can understand why one of my pals spends every winter in sunny southern Texas!
bluenotebob
Guru
- Location
- central Brittany, France
The ‘3 x 30mins x 52 weeks’ challenge is better suited to those who enjoy cycling all year round – whatever the weather. As I’ve written before (several times), there is pleasure and a sense of achievement to be gained from battling nature. It’s almost too easy to do short rides when the sun’s out.
If your bar for success is only doing a minimum of 3 rides per week (as long as it’s not raining), then it’s only a matter of time before you’ll fail to complete that challenge.
You need a good reason not to go out on your bike every day – and weather, limited hours of daylight, minor illness or injury aren’t good reasons in my book. Surely more than two people within the hundreds on this forum are sufficiently self-motivated to go out cycling a few times every week of the year?
There should be dozens of CC members in the ‘3 x 30mins x 52 weeks’ challenge – and all the other challenges too. Where are they all?
The mostly antipathetic response to @13 rider ’s excellent ‘A New Year A New Challenge’ thread tells its own story. Unread and thus ignored by the majority. So disappointing.
I will have one more go at drumming up interest in the ‘3 x 30mins’ challenge then I’ll give up. It really is tiresome and deflating spending time writing posts that most people don’t seem to bother to read.
If your bar for success is only doing a minimum of 3 rides per week (as long as it’s not raining), then it’s only a matter of time before you’ll fail to complete that challenge.
You need a good reason not to go out on your bike every day – and weather, limited hours of daylight, minor illness or injury aren’t good reasons in my book. Surely more than two people within the hundreds on this forum are sufficiently self-motivated to go out cycling a few times every week of the year?
There should be dozens of CC members in the ‘3 x 30mins x 52 weeks’ challenge – and all the other challenges too. Where are they all?
The mostly antipathetic response to @13 rider ’s excellent ‘A New Year A New Challenge’ thread tells its own story. Unread and thus ignored by the majority. So disappointing.
I will have one more go at drumming up interest in the ‘3 x 30mins’ challenge then I’ll give up. It really is tiresome and deflating spending time writing posts that most people don’t seem to bother to read.
steverob
Guru
- Location
- Buckinghamshire
Maybe when I retire I might be able to consider the 3 x 30 challenge, but while I'm still working and commuting long hours, it's not a possibility for me to get out three times during the week. I do read the thread and look longingly at the photos posted dreaming of the day when I can just hop on my bike at will, but I've still got a good ten plus years to go before that day!
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I got up still feeling a bit rough. When will this damn lurgy go?!!
Yes, the weather was great (for winter)... Sunny, not too cold, not too windy. I cycled over to the cafe.
No, after lunch I did NOT feel like continuing up a whacking great hill. In fact, I did not even feel like extending my ride. Head for home Col...
I was slinking back to Todmorden, being overtaken by every cyclist out on the road, feeling sorry for myself, when something very odd happened...
Before I had completed my 7.5 km return leg I started to feel slightly better! Maybe I would extend the ride after all?
I decided to turn left in Todmorden, add a few km towards Littleborough, then turn round and head back.
Didn't happen. The few km then a u-turn, that is... I kept feeling better, so I kept on riding. I even detoured up to Calderbrook, which involves a little climb. I continued all the way over to Rochdale Road in Littleborough, and then headed back to Todmorden. I had clocked up just over 35 km by the time I got home. But, I was feeling better than I have felt for about 3 weeks, so...
... that seemed like a good plan!
Less than an hour later, back in the warm at home:
Challenge completed! (Maybe I will ride more 50s this year, maybe not; we'ĺl see...)
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Likewise, sometimes 3 times a month is a struggle with the weather, work, family etc.
teeonethousand
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sevenfourate
Devotee of OCD
- Location
- Lowestoft, Suffolk
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Was that you getting up crazily early for a ride, or going to bed late for a change?!
