Surely it should have been a Tunnocks tea cake to be a proper Scottish refuel 😁
The 2025 Half Century (50km or 50 mile) Challenge Chatzone.
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iandg
Legendary Member
- Location
- Dumfries and Galloway
Another 1 point ride today. Did the "Big Onion Gravel" medium route. Total of 73km
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/51245084
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/51245084
Finally got out this month! Did my 100km challenge ride today and will try and get the 50km/50mile in next weekend. Today’s adventure
'Your ride today....
https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/your-ride-today.173254/post-7436145
'Your ride today....
https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/your-ride-today.173254/post-7436145
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Jon George
Mamil and couldn't care less
- Location
- Suffolk an' Good
Got up early (for me 
) and snaffled another point on a route that takes me out to Felixstowe. Nice to beat the heat of midday.
) and snaffled another point on a route that takes me out to Felixstowe. Nice to beat the heat of midday.
Spartak
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- Location
- Bristolian
Meeting in work today so left home early and did a loop via Ashton Court & Failand before reaching Portbury Dock, then my usual commute back.
No pictures but here's the route ...
No pictures but here's the route ...
Jon George
Mamil and couldn't care less
- Location
- Suffolk an' Good
Not only is factor 50 a great sun-block, it also has superb fly-paper qualities when I'm out cycling. That's not poor shaving by me on my neck, nor some horrendous flash-back to those teenage skin conditions: those are black-fly.
Jenkins
Legendary Member
- Location
- Felixstowe
To that lot at the moment you could also add greenfly and thunder flies - especially the thunder flies that seem to get on the inside of my glasses.
bluenotebob
Veteran
- Location
- central Brittany, France
I mentioned upthread a couple of months back that I was close to completing my second lap of the world (80,149km cycled since January 2017).
I’ve now passed that milestone and it was duly celebrated yesterday with a large chocolate cake, shared with friends and neighbours.
It’s worth noting that my second lap (40,074km) took just over 3 years to do and was cycled between the ages of 69 and 72. So there’s a marker that us septuagenarians can continue to achieve significant things on the bike, even though we’re slow and creaky.
Next target is 100,000km – hopefully by early 2027 – and perhaps a third lap of the world by 2029 (if the summer heat or the roll-ups haven’t finished me off by then).
Cake photos here … RTW x2 (‘Round The World’ twice) ..
I’ve now passed that milestone and it was duly celebrated yesterday with a large chocolate cake, shared with friends and neighbours.
It’s worth noting that my second lap (40,074km) took just over 3 years to do and was cycled between the ages of 69 and 72. So there’s a marker that us septuagenarians can continue to achieve significant things on the bike, even though we’re slow and creaky.
Next target is 100,000km – hopefully by early 2027 – and perhaps a third lap of the world by 2029 (if the summer heat or the roll-ups haven’t finished me off by then).
Cake photos here … RTW x2 (‘Round The World’ twice) ..
steverob
Guru
- Location
- Buckinghamshire
Wow, that's an incredible distance - I've just checked my stats and it took me 11 years to reach once round the world (measured from 2013, when I re-started cycling and began to kept accurate figures), so to do it twice in 8 years is amazing.
Also, that chocolate cake looks fantastic!
Also, that chocolate cake looks fantastic!
