The 2025 Half Century (50km or 50 mile) Challenge Chatzone.

[ColinJ]

Missing your forum rides Colin, hope you haven’t given up on us. 🤞

I actually said to someone just the other day that this is the first year** since 2006 that I haven't organised any rides and no-one had even noticed, so thanks for proving me wrong!

I will try to have a good solo winter and maybe start the forum rides up again with the Garforth flat metric century at the end of March. (I am planning to head off to Devon again for the first half of the month.)


** Actually, I didn't in 2013 because I was still recovering from my second pulmonary embolism. The rides started again in 2014.

 

[13 rider]

59.87 miles

58.67 miles

58.8 miles

I think the lack of rounding up to 100km has to be called out 👍, come on think of the extra points your missing out on and to make it worse your on 99 points any one of these would have got you over the century , oh my OCD hurts 🤣

 

[PaulSB]

I think the lack of rounding up to 100km has to be called out 👍, come on think of the extra points your missing out on and to make it worse your on 99 points any one of these would have got you over the century , oh my OCD hurts 🤣

I'll try harder. The issue, genuinely, is we always finish rides at the meet point. Then I have six miles home, the alternative is eleven miles. Nearer to home there is a 3 mile loop which involves 450 feet of climbing on two of our most feared local climbs!!!! 🤣🤣

I suppose wimp is the word we're looking for.

 

[13 rider]

(total 62.7 miles / 100.9 km, plus 999m / 3,278ft)

Good distance discipline 👍, but that 999 m would set off my OCD. 🤣

 

[ColinJ]

Good distance discipline 👍, but that 999 m would set off my OCD. 🤣

There is no end to it though, is there?

If one goes significantly above 50 km, 50 miles beckons, but 50 miles is only (say) 45 minutes riding short of 100 km!

If an imperial century went over-distance then 200 km would be beckoning, but at least that might need a couple of hours more on the bike.

I was always scared to try for 300 km. I can imagine being half-dead at 250 km, fighting like mad to get to 300, but have it dawn on me just before the finish that yet one more hour of riding would get me to 200 miles!

 

[13 rider]

There is no end to it though, is there?

If one goes significantly above 50 km, 50 miles beckons, but 50 miles is only (say) 45 minutes riding short of 100 km!

If an imperial century went over-distance then 200 km would be beckoning, but at least that might need a couple of hours more on the bike.

I was always scared to try for 300 km. I can imagine being half-dead at 250 km, fighting like mad to get to 300, but have it dawn on me just before the finish that yet one more hour of riding would get me to 200 miles!

Welcome to my world 🤣

 

[bluenotebob]

Welcome to my world

Aye – mine too.

Anyone chasing Eddingtons can relate to this.

There’s always something to be gained from going an extra km or mile over a certain amount.

I’ve mostly reconciled it by ensuring that something tangible is achieved every time I go out on my bike (most days of the year) – and that can vary from visiting somewhere new, or progressing towards/attaining one of the many targets that I’ve set myself (weekly/monthly/annual for each bike).

Apart from the simple pleasure of cycling, there are other rewards to be gained by going a bit further than you need to.

 

[FrothNinja]

Good distance discipline 👍, but that 999 m would set off my OCD. 🤣

Well, strictly speaking, it was 999.34, but my Garmin showed 1000 when I finished the ride. I tend to round down.

 

[13 rider]

Well, strictly speaking, it was 999.34, but my Garmin showed 1000 when I finished the ride. I tend to round down.

I would have took the Garmin reading 🤣

 

[13 rider]

Monthly round up and last weekend warning . We have 18 riders fully posted up leaving just 2 on the nudge list so a more more than gentle nudge for @Bazzer and @bruce1530
Well done everyone next month's the important one let's get it done

 

[Bazzer]

Yes I was aware, but thank you.
Domestics and sitting for several days by different hospital beds, play havoc with life generally, let alone "me" time.
Anyway, I took a couple of hours this afternoon and it is now done.

 

[13 rider]

Yes I was aware, but thank you.
Domestics and sitting for several days by different hospital beds, play havoc with life generally, let alone "me" time.
Anyway, I took a couple of hours this afternoon and it is now done.

Well done . I hope life situations improve to allow you a bit more you time it the near future

 

[Domus]

Out on a very overcast but balmy Lancashire Day. 🌹🌹🌹 Low cloud over the West Pennine Moors so my usual route through Leigh and Hindley.
Met Mr Angry in Leigh who had a VERY loud horn and a VERY loud shouty voice, whose face went a very worrying shade of red whilst screaming at me to get in the cycle lane on the opposite side of the road. He was incandescent with rage. I overtook him 50 metres further on as I joined the cycle lane on my side of the road. Heart attack waiting to happen methinks