The 2026 Half Century (50km or 50 mile) a month challenge chatzone

[sevenfourate]

Slightly different early Morning route today. Before an all-day Meeting 🙄

And it was absolutely lovely - I stopped and wished I had time to ride some more. But: What a way to start the day 😍

4.30am start saw me circumnavigate some of the very top of Lowestoft and arrive on the Broads pre 5am…..

Then around some serious backlanes - where my bars were literally scraping the bushes either side 😂 and onto Beccles. Where I stopped on a footbridge over the River Waveney for this snap:

By then the sun was well over the Horizon. This is near Hulver, Suffolk;

The lowdown:

 

[VinSumRox]

Just added some May rides to the challenge and realised one was 49.91 miles 😃. I was riding in kilometres and thought 80 was enough.....

 

[sevenfourate]

Just added some May rides to the challenge and realised one was 49.91 miles 😃. I was riding in kilometres and thought 80 was enough.....

I’m pretty non-plussed by it all usually…..

But that one’s even got to me 🤣🤣

 

[VinSumRox]

I’m pretty non-plussed by it all usually…..

But that one’s even got to me 🤣🤣

I was tempted to round up, but must have been feeling honest.

 

[13 rider]

Just added some May rides to the challenge and realised one was 49.91 miles 😃. I was riding in kilometres and thought 80 was enough.....

Yes I did noticed and I'm disappointed ☹️.just finished my last ride in France which the organisers had made 60 miles 😮😮, showing full commitment to the thread I rode up a hill and back to get to 100km despite a 360 mile ,35000ft week

 

[Spartak]

The stars aligned this morning ...

- day off
- sun shining
- wife working
- children at school

Great 50 kms ride up onto the Cotswold Escarpment riding thru the villages of Badminton & Hawkesbury Upton before dropping down and riding back via Horton & Yate [ for a refreshment in the 'Spoons ].

... also took me Insta360 X3 out to continue experimenting with this camera !
Here's a video link if you wanna while away 40 seconds of me cycling in the sunshine ☀️ 😎


View: https://youtube.com/shorts/xWcFAJNKte0?si=AbyERSpZ8ZaU121X

 

[sevenfourate]

Up the Coast to California (Cliffs) 🤣

Only done this route once before. And last time was in the Frost in Mid-Winter 😳 So just a shade more pleasant today…..

Old School postbox still - with Topper: in Hopton-on-Sea, Norfolk

Sun starting to rise at Gorleston Pier:

Some new Artwork I spied a few weeks ago when in the car….

Who the heck is that handsome chap ? 😉

***Well why wouldn’t you ? ❤️❤️❤️

Further up the Coast at the tip of Caister-on-Sea:

California Cruising 😍

Numbers were crunched:

 

[13 rider]

Mays monthly round up and last weekend warning . We have 21 riders fully posted up leaving 2 just riders yet to declare so a gentle nudge for @Jon George and @Dadam . As a nudge list seems incomplete without mentioning @bruce1530 👍 ,Well done on completing your ride with a whole week to spare ( I had to check the calendar when you posted )

 

[Dadam]

@13 rider
With unusual foresight I got out on Saturday morning, before it got stupidly hot this weekend.
A new route following Spen Valley Greenway and Calder Valley Greenway. A bit of a detour through Dewsbury back alleys necessitated due to closure of the route on one point for the Transpennine upgrade.

Details to follow

 

[Jon George]

As the long-term participants to this challenge may remember, I have tried to make it a point of mine to snaffle at least one point by getting up at a silly hour in the summer and greet the sun. Today was that day. And I don't think I've ever done one such ride so early in a year. (I don't think I've ever had a nudge from @13 rider either, but that's another story. )

As always for these early rides - Lockdown levels of traffic, abundant wildlife and too many great views to stop and take photos of them all. Wonderful stuff. I now intend to put my feet up for the rest of the day.

Here's a pic out near Bucklesham.

 

[13 rider]

Well that was a successful nudge list ,All riders have completed there qualifying rides within 24 hrs of me posting the list .Well done everyone,so the 23 of us push on to the halfway point. Yes you had me slightly worried @Jon George with your lack of early month post

 

[sevenfourate]

As the long-term participants to this challenge may remember, I have tried to make it a point of mine to snaffle at least one point by getting up at a silly hour in the summer and greet the sun. Today was that day. And I don't think I've ever done one such ride so early in a year. (I don't think I've ever had a nudge from @13 rider either, but that's another story. )

As always for these early rides - Lockdown levels of traffic, abundant wildlife and too many great views to stop and take photos of them all. Wonderful stuff. I now intend to put my feet up for the rest of the day.

Here's a pic out near Bucklesham.

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Never under-estimate the Suffolk Massive.

Well done Jon…… 😁

 

[sevenfourate]

For someone who limped (?) to 18 points last (Also my first) year…..including a flourish at the end: to have 13 points by May has meant some effort amongst a very busy home life. And long-hour’d work life. I have truly enjoyed every ride though. And there’s no doubt this challenge has successfully encouraged me to ride waaaaaaay more than I would have otherwise. Alright, alright I’m starting to sound like a soppy, soft-lad now. Not the 6’3 / 16st hunk of muscular 🙄 Grant Mitchell’s long lost Cousin that I could be mistaken for…….

So. An early start. There’s a surprise 🤣

And arriving at the Norfolk / Suffolk Border and the River Waveney:

Into Beccles at about the furthest point from home of this ride. And another River based picture:

And stopping for one more view of the now rapidly rising Sun between Beccles and home…..

The Scores on the doors were: