steverob
Guru
- Location
- Buckinghamshire
Don't forget @Sbudge, who I know has done his November 100km ride, but I don't think has posted it yet.
The Metric Century (100KM) A Month Challenge ChatZone
- Thread starter ColinJ
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Dogtrousers
Lefty tighty. Get it righty.
Will wait and see. Last posted ride was Sept. Fingers crossed for 10 finishers!
MadMalx
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- Location
- Settle, Yorkshire Dales
November ticked off. Fantastic ride through the Trough of Bowland and Roeburndale (winding lumpy route with grass down the middle of the single lane road, not marked as a through route on OS maps). Perfect winter temperature, sunny for much of the day and very light breeze. Was with another 3 guys all with similar abilities, no-one impatient or miles off the back.
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Sea of vapours
Guru
- Location
- Clapham, Yorkshire Dales
That's a great 'road', isn't it. It's less good when there are cows gathered in the dip/bridge/steep bit after the initial descent, but generally it's an excellent little adventure in itself. @ColinJ , @colly and I had a very slow, cow-impeded traverse of that road a couple of years ago on a forum ride.
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ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Ah, yes - I had forgotten THAT ONE! @colly was with us. Great ride; iffy cows!
PS Which reminds me... I got a rail voucher to compensate me for the cancelled train. I haven't used it yet! I can go one way anywhere on the Northern rail network. I want to get fit enough to do an epic all day ride. The plan would be something like catching the earliest possible trains on a mid-summer day to north of the Dales and then riding home, aiming to get back before sunset..
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steverob
Guru
- Location
- Buckinghamshire
Yes I did notice it, but by now I've come to realise you're a time traveller, so it isn't impossible for you to do November's ride in December! And I think you were in the process of correcting it before I could comment anyway.
MadMalx
Well-Known Member
- Location
- Settle, Yorkshire Dales
December ride and 2025 in the bag.
Only went out for a 50km ride with a few others, got back to home town early but was such a nice day I thought I'd do another 20km. Then realised I had another hour or so of daylight.....
Only went out for a 50km ride with a few others, got back to home town early but was such a nice day I thought I'd do another 20km. Then realised I had another hour or so of daylight.....
Sea of vapours
Guru
- Location
- Clapham, Yorkshire Dales
Unlike @13 rider and @MadMalx, whose weather was 'too good to waste' and 'such a nice day', I adopted the 'today may be as good as it gets for several weeks' approach. As it turned out, whilst the temperature ranged from 0C to a less-than-toasty 3C, I made it back 15m before the forecast, very heavy rain and only had about two hours of 30+mph wind at the end, so a pretty good result overall. I'd just about finished washing the bike when the first rain arrived. Outdoors now sounds really unpleasant.
Another year of metric centuries completed, bringing my total to a contiguous eleven years. Pleasing :-)
Another year of metric centuries completed, bringing my total to a contiguous eleven years. Pleasing :-)
To make you feel better I still have an Imperial ton to get done and I am really kicking myself for not being motivated enough on Tuesday to do an imperial century
Well done on ticking of another year
Dogtrousers
Lefty tighty. Get it righty.
2025 done! Another silver star for my collection.
A beautiful, if nippy day. 3° to start and 9° to finish. Blue skies. No ice. Unfortunately as my route was predominantly South I had bad sun glare in my eyes for a lot of the time, but apart from that ideal conditions.
Unfortunately I didn't have ideal legs. I had 1,600m of ascent in my 100km so lumpy but not a total killer. I'd front-loaded the route so the last 30km was relatively easy. Good not to have to deal with hard climbs at the end? Nice theory but in practice I was so wrecked that it was a real struggle even on the final gentle gradients.
Looking back on my imperial century days, 80km was when I texted home that I was half way. Generally still feeling good at that point, and it was normally after that point that I ran into trouble. This time at 80km I was already deep in survival mode and playing mental games to convince myself to keep moving. Mind you I typically finished my 100 milers in a state of misery and agony, so all that has changed is my rides have got shorter. And slower. Much, much slower. Audax OTL slow. Today wasn't my quite my slowest ever. I have done one 100k more slowly. Just one, and I had an excuse that day (2,100m of ascent).
A beautiful, if nippy day. 3° to start and 9° to finish. Blue skies. No ice. Unfortunately as my route was predominantly South I had bad sun glare in my eyes for a lot of the time, but apart from that ideal conditions.
Unfortunately I didn't have ideal legs. I had 1,600m of ascent in my 100km so lumpy but not a total killer. I'd front-loaded the route so the last 30km was relatively easy. Good not to have to deal with hard climbs at the end? Nice theory but in practice I was so wrecked that it was a real struggle even on the final gentle gradients.
Looking back on my imperial century days, 80km was when I texted home that I was half way. Generally still feeling good at that point, and it was normally after that point that I ran into trouble. This time at 80km I was already deep in survival mode and playing mental games to convince myself to keep moving. Mind you I typically finished my 100 milers in a state of misery and agony, so all that has changed is my rides have got shorter. And slower. Much, much slower. Audax OTL slow. Today wasn't my quite my slowest ever. I have done one 100k more slowly. Just one, and I had an excuse that day (2,100m of ascent).
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MadMalx
Well-Known Member
- Location
- Settle, Yorkshire Dales
Dogtrousers
Lefty tighty. Get it righty.
Sbudge
Cyclist
- Location
- NW London & The Chilterns
Thanks Steve, yep, and December done too. Will post now.
