The Annual Lunacy (aka "I Don't Do Winter") Challenge Chatzone

[steverob]

Well I didn't get to complete my challenge this week after all. Because of the bad weather, I wasn't able to do a long ride on the Saturday as planned, but instead only did a short one in the evening - actually the route I'd planned for Sunday morning before getting picked up.

But I'm still on 12 out of 13, so shouldn't be too much longer before I'm done.

 

[Sea of vapours]

One more Lunacy ride to go this year, but the one I posted yesterday was my hundredth imperial century, which is pretty pleasing :-)

I started off this challenge aiming for 150km, but that distance is annoyingly close to a hundred miles, so in practice I've mostly done 161km or more. I'd probably never have reached an imperial Eddington number of one hundred without the challenge, so yet another illustration of what a good idea it was of @ColinJ 's :-)

 

[ColinJ]

yet another illustration of what a good idea it was of @ColinJ 's :-)

I am very good at coming up with ideas...

... for other people. Doing something with those ideas myself is altogether another matter!

Well done, by the way. I only started keeping detailed records of my rides after about 20 years so I don't know exactly what I have done.

 

[Sea of vapours]

Ahhh.... but the ideas do encourage you to do things, and that's the main thing, isn't it.

Thanks. I don't know exactly in lifetime terms either since I wasn't keeping records back in my teens, so this is all 'since 2014'. I know I did one ride of 188 miles back then, but I think that was exceptional, and not repeated since either.

 

[ColinJ]

I have definitely lost my mojo with regards to longer rides, partly because I have slowed down so much - they just take me so long!

I am trying to get quicker (see my Cragg Vale thread). If/when(?) I can do long hilly Dales rides at an average speed of 20+ km/h again, the mojo might return?