In July, I cycled 13/31 days with daily totals over 50km. Three of them were posted as Lunacy Distance rides (as they were all over 90km), one of them was posted in this challenge – and the other 9 weren’t posted anywhere (perhaps I should have done so but it’s too late now).
So far this month, I’ve only racked-up three daily totals in excess of 50km. My intention was to do an uninterrupted 50+km ride in the second half of August and to post that as August’s qualifier. But ... I’ve just run into some problems. Thursday’s ride was curtailed with a flat back tyre (my fault – don’t ask) and it meant pushing my bike 11km back to the van in a temperature of 38C. Not much fun but I did it. Friday’s ride was short and slow – I realised after 16km that one of my cycling shoes had split (probably as a result of having to walk 11km the day before).
Today is a National Holiday so there’s no chance of getting new shoes before Monday and then I’ll need time to break them in. I’m still hopeful of doing an uninterrupted 50+km ride before 31.8 but I may end up cycling it in tennis shoes … I’ll see how practical that is.
I’ve decided to post the three multi-bike rides that I did earlier in August in the challenge thread.
Not what I planned but I really don’t want to drop out of this year’s challenge on a technicality. I do plenty of rides/daily totals over 50km every month but I just haven’t bothered to report them all.
